Evaluating the Impact of Linguistic Diversity on Women in Security Programmes

尽管通信技术取得了前所未有的进步，但由于语言不平等和政策和实践中持续的欧洲中心主义，仍有太多人被排除在外。女权主义安全学术一直与语言政策和翻译研究脱节，性别、安全和多种语言之间的交集没有得到解决。审查安全研究中的这一盲点对全世界妇女的权利和安全具有重要的实际意义。从性别的角度看待语言冷漠的问题尤为关键，因为性别识字差距和教育不平等使妇女处于不成比例的不利地位。在安全学术和实践中，缺乏对代码转换、多种语言和语言地位等交流复杂性的认识，可能会掩盖女性因语言使用和性别歧视而被排除在外的交叉原因。这项研究旨在揭示国家行动计划等安全方案在协商阶段和在政策传播过程中是否需要考虑语言因素。这项工作将就语言丰富的工作进行有益的知识交流，目的是提出建议或工具包，概述在语言多样的社会中有效沟通妇女安全需要的战略。自下而上的政策制定和与土著民间社会的合作现在被安全学者广泛认为是至关重要的，然而在该领域机构单一语言和语言冷漠的持续主导地位可能会限制参与并排斥许多妇女。研究问题：妇女在安全方案中的参与和代表性是否受到高度语言多样性的影响？一.单一语言做法和语言偏见在多大程度上阻碍了在协商阶段纳入某些妇女的声音？缺少翻译成少数语种是否会导致对妇女权利缺乏认识，并降低政策文件对基层组织的效用？

Despite unprecedented advances in communications technologies, too many people continue to be excluded on account of language inequities and continuing Eurocentrism in policy and praxis. Feminist security scholarship has remained disconnected from language policy and translation research, leaving the intersection between gender, security, and multilingualism unaddressed. Examining this blind spot in security studies has important practical implications for women's rights and safety across the world. Approaching the question of language indifference with a gender lens is particularly crucial, since gender literacy gaps and educational inequalities leave women disproportionately disadvantaged. The lack of recognition, in security scholarship and practice, of communicative complexities such as code-switching, plurilingualism and language status may disguise the intersecting causes of women's exclusion through 'othering' on account of language use in addition to sexism. This research aims to reveal the need for linguistic considerations in security programmes, such as National Action Plans (NAPs), both at the consultation stage and in the dissemination of policy. This work will result in a beneficial knowledge exchange regarding language-rich working and aim to produce recommendations or a toolkit, outlining strategies for effective communication of women's security needs in linguistically diverse societies. Bottom-up policy making and collaboration with indigenous civil society are now widely considered crucial among security scholars, yet the continued dominance of institutional monolingualism and language indifference in the field is likely to limit engagement and exclude many women.Research Questions:Is women's participation and representation in security programmes affected by high linguistic diversity?i. To what extent do monolingual practices and linguistic biases inhibit the inclusion of certain women's voices at the consultation stage?ii. Does the lack of translation into minoritised languages contribute to a lack of awareness of women's rights and reduce the utility of policy documents for grassroots organisations?