AN EXAMINATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND BRITISH MILITARY IDENTITY

背景/理由英国军队与人权有着复杂的关系，无论是作为一个法律机构，还是作为一个文化概念。现有研究侧重于法律与军事之间关系的实际影响，往往围绕着将人权规范吸收到军事领域可能会破坏有效开展行动的担忧。这项研究将提供新的见解，从文化的角度审视人权对身份的影响，而不是战略。目的本研究的核心目的是探索人权在英国军事身份中的含义。现实主义安全观倾向于将人权视为国家安全的附庸。这个项目的前提是，安全和权利不是分开的、相互竞争的概念；人权议程已经成为英国军事和国家认同的核心，无论它是否愿意。通过考虑官方方法和服务人员经验之间的动态，该项目旨在探索人权话语的复杂性。它将确定军方如何应对人权规范的持续演变，以及这对武装部队机构身份的影响。研究问题1)人权是如何在军队的公共文件中框架的？2)英国军队对人权的看法如何？3)关于当代英国军事身份的外部/内部人权文化概念之间的关系告诉我们什么？4)随着人权规范议程的演变，这将对英国军队的文化产生什么影响？范围/方法/设计处于人权文献和军事身份之间的十字路口，应采取混合方法。这些议程如何根据现有资料，在与伙伴组织联合制作的正式和非正式人权讨论中相互作用。文件分析将是分析官方态度的主要手段，使用NVivo等编码软件来组织材料并引出主要主题。在编码之后，将在选定的文件中进一步研究这些主题，并结合更广泛的学术文献和对退役人员的半结构化访谈。采用更加人种学的方法，结合对现有文献的审查、与参与者的访谈和文件分析，确保对人权和军事文化研究进行全面分析。

Context/rationaleThe British military have a complex relationship with human rights, both as a legal body and a cultural concept. Existing studies focus on the practical implications of the relationship between law and the military, often centering around the fears that absorbing human rights norms into the military sphere may undermine the effective conduct of operations. This study will provide new insights by considering human rights from a cultural perspective, to examine the impact on identity rather than strategy.AimsThe core aim is to explore the meanings of human rights within British military identities. Realist conceptions of security tend to view human rights as subordinate to national security. This project is predicated on the assumption that security and rights are not separate, competing notions; the human rights agenda has become, be it desired or not, central to British military and national identity. By considering the dynamic between official approaches and the experiences of service personnel, the project aims to explore the complexities of human rights discourse. It will identify how the military reacts to the continuing evolution of human rights norms, and the implications of this for the institutional identity of the armed forces.Research questions1) How are human rights framed in the military's public documents? 2) How are human rights perceived within the British military? 3) What does the relationship between external/internal conceptions of human rights culture tell us about contemporary British military identity?4) As the normative agenda of human rights evolves, what impact will this have upon the culture of the British military?Scope/methods/designSituating the project at the crossroads between literatures on human rights and military identity, a mixed-methods approach shall be adopted. How these agendas interact in official and informal discourses of human rights according to the available sources, in co-production with the partner organisation. Document analysis will be the primary means for analysing official attitudes, using coding software, such as NVIVO, to organise the material and to elicit the dominant themes. Following coding, these themes will be further examined in selected documents alongside wider academic literature and semi-structured interviews with former service personnel. The adoption of a more ethnographic approach, combining a review of the existing literature, participant interviews and document analysis, ensures that a holistic analysis of the study of human rights and military culture is thus conducted.