Norm Diffusion and Vernacularisation: The Meeting of International and Local Gender Norms

该项目将严格审查妇女和平与安全议程通过其运作所依赖的自上而下的规范传播进程减少冲突后地区性暴力和基于性别的暴力的能力。这里的“规范扩散”指的是社会规范通过影响力从源头传播到采纳者。现有的，但有限的，在地面上的规范传播的文献强调本地行为者在本地化的积极作用外部规定的规范在自己的文化的预先存在的规范框架。这表明，自上而下试图以线性方式将规范传播到目标地区的影响有限。因此，该项目着手调查妇女和社会福利部规定的性别规范-在通过国家行动计划和社区发展方案过滤后-如何与其目标地区的性别规范相互交叉并融入当地语言，以及这些过程可能对这些规范的传播产生的影响。它着手回答两个主要问题：1）妇女和社会福利部规定的性别规范如何与目标地区预先存在的性别认同相互交叉？2)这些性别认同如何影响《妇女地位战略》规定的规范性性别框架的本土化？社区发展方案的工作-在地方和全球之间协调知识和权力的流动-导致地方权力结构和社会身份的不断重新配置。因此，CDP所针对的地方应该被视为“跨国民族景观”。由于这些“跨国民族景观”的边界模糊，经验上追踪文化生产的轨迹和解决手头的研究问题，需要一个定性的方法，涉及使用多个来源，话语分析，并在多sitedobservational民族志research.This项目的形式实地考察初步建议乌干达作为一个合适的案例研究。联合国报告说，乌干达报告的性暴力和基于性别的暴力发生率持续下降。然而，由于缺乏对实地规范传播过程的实质性研究，无法得出明确的结论，说明在该地区实施的发展政策是如何成功的，以及为什么成功。有鉴于此，乌干达目前提供了一个重要的研究窗口，通过这个窗口可以研究实地的规范传播过程，该项目将为制定框架和相关政策方案的知识领域作出两项重要贡献，这些框架和相关政策方案对成功执行《世界警察战略》至关重要。它将首先增加学术界对规范扩散和本土化的理解。第二，它将为那些在国际、国家和地方各级设计未来框架和政策方案的人提供关键数据，以减少冲突后环境中的性暴力和基于性别的暴力。

This project will critically examine the ability of the Women Peace and Security Agenda (WPS) to reduce the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in postconflict localities via the process of top down norm diffusion on which it operationally relies. 'Norm diffusion' here refers to the spread of social norms from a source to an adopter via influence. The existing, albeit limited, literature on norm diffusion on the ground emphasises the active role of local actors in vernacularising externally prescribed norms within their own culture's pre-existing normative frameworks. This suggests that the influence of top-down attempts to diffuse norms into target localities in a linear fashion is limited. This project thus sets out to investigate how the gender norms prescribed by the WPS - when filtered through National Action Plans (NAP) and Community Development Programmes (CDP) - intersect with, and vernacularise into, those of its targeted localities, and the impact that these processes may have on their diffusion. It sets out to answer two main questions:1) How do the gender norms prescribed by the WPS intersect with the pre-existing gender identities in targeted localities?2) How do these gender identities affect the vernacularisation of the normative gender framework prescribed by the WPS?The work of CDPs - in terms of mediating flows of knowledge and power between the local and the global - results in the ongoing reconfiguration of local power structures and social identities. Localities targeted by CDP's should thus be approached as 'transnational ethnoscapes'. Due to the fuzzy boundaries of these 'transnational ethnoscapes' empirically tracing the trajectories of cultural production and addressing the research questions at hand necessitates a qualitative approach that involves the use of multiple sources, discourse analysis, and fieldwork in the form of multi-sitedobservational ethnographic research.This project tentatively suggests Uganda as a suitable case study. The UN has reported a consistent decrease in reported rates of SGBV in Uganda. However, due to the lack of substantive research on the process of norm diffusion on the ground, no firm conclusions can be drawn as to how or why the CDP's implemented in the area havebeen successful. In light of this, Uganda presently offers a vital research window through which the process of norm diffusion on the ground can be studied.This project will provide two important contributions to the fields of knowledge crucial to the development of frameworks and related policy programmes that function to successfully implement the WPS. It will firstly add to the academes understanding of norm diffusion and vernacularisation. Secondly, it will provide crucial data for those designing future frameworks, and policy programmes, on the international, national, and local levels towards the reduction of SGBV in post-conflict contexts.