Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Influence of Differential Conceptions of Dignity on Transitional Justice Efforts

博士论文研究：不同的尊严观念对转型正义努力的影响

• 批准号: 1729060
• 负责人: Vincent Crapanzano
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-15 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1729060&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Influence; Differential

Transitional justice has increasingly relied on the promise of dignity in post-conflict resolution efforts. But researchers are discovering that how dignity is pursued and achieved varies across different sociocultural contexts. Several existing studies have documented that many people inhabit conditions that preclude the possibility of a life with dignity. This project, which trains a student in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, asks what factors foreclose the pursuit of dignity, and by extension, drive those individuals away from peaceful resolution of past differences. Understanding the causal relation between the pursuit of dignity and the turn to extreme or militant alternatives to attain it is critical for developing policies that can curtail the rise of such phenomena. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology, the project would enhance scientific understanding by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations interested in issues of human rights and post-conflict reconciliation.Douaa Sheet, under the supervision of Dr. Vincent Crapanzano of the City University of New York, will explore how multiple moral frameworks influence human behavior in the context of transitional justice efforts. This research will be conducted in Tunisia, which is selected as a research site because it is currently witnessing a resurgence of protests across the country reiterating the 2011 Arab Spring demand for "dignity, freedom, and employment," making it a particularly apt time to conduct this study. The research will focus on the Truth and Dignity Commission (TDC), a mechanism of international human rights where a locally elected commission is mandated to investigate the human rights abuses of the fallen regime and recommend reparations for its victims. While the TDC is mandated to recommend forms of redress for these victims, many of them are boycotting the TDC and turning to alternative ways of recovering their dignity. The investigator will visit the sites of renewed protests to collect testimonies of the experiences of humiliation re-fueling the demand for dignity, the moral traditions and theological concepts that victims mobilize to explain their reasons for boycotting the TDC, and the appeal of alternatives such as suicide and militant Islam or what they call jihad an-nafs (the struggle of the self). Through the lens of the TDC and the heated controversies that have surrounded its work, the investigator will explore the multiple moral traditions informing the notion of dignity. The investigator will interview civil society stakeholders, human rights lawyers, jurists, international rights experts, and the victims involved in the process to identify what sources might contribute to frustration with the TDC, when and how its mechanism are experienced as a form of humiliation, and the extent to which the aspiration for a future with dignity might inform the way Ben Ali's victims are responding to the TDC and refiguring the strategies through which they deal with their past abuses. Findings from this research will provide insight into the reasons dignity is such a valued aspiration, the social and economic costs of not conforming to the dictates of this moral tradition, and the reasons non-radical persons are turning to radical alternatives to reassert their dignity.

过渡司法越来越依赖于冲突后解决方案的尊严承诺。但是研究人员发现，在不同的社会文化背景下，追求和实现的尊严是如何变化的。现有的一些研究表明，许多人居住的条件排除了有尊严的生活的可能性。该项目培训了一名学生的经验，科学数据收集和分析方法，询问了哪些因素可以降低对尊严的追求，并延伸，使这些人摆脱了过去差异的和平解决。了解追求尊严与转向极端或激进的替代方案之间的因果关系对于制定可以减少这种现象兴起的政策至关重要。除了为培训人类学研究生培训资金外，该项目还将通过在Vincent博士的监督下向对对人权问题和冲突后的和解问题的组织进行广泛传播，从而增强科学理解。纽约市城市大学的克拉潘萨诺（Crapanzano）将探讨在过渡司法工作的背景下，多个道德框架如何影响人类行为。这项研究将在突尼斯进行，突尼斯被选为研究地点，因为它目前正在目睹全国各地的抗议活动复兴，重申了2011年阿拉伯春季对“尊严，自由和就业的需求”的需求，这使其成为特别恰当的时间进行这项研究。这项研究将重点关注真理和尊严委员会（TDC），这是一种国际人权机制，该机制要求当地当选的委员会调查堕落政权的人权侵犯人权，并建议对其受害者进行赔偿。虽然TDC被要求为这些受害者推荐补救形式，但其中许多人在抵制TDC并转向恢复其尊严的替代方法。调查人员将访问重新抗议活动的遗址，以收集屈辱的经历的证词，重新加强对尊严的需求，道德传统和神学概念，受害者动员解释其抵制TDC的原因，以及诸如替代方案的吸引力，例如自杀和好战的伊斯兰教或他们所谓的圣战安娜（自我的斗争）。通过TDC的镜头以及围绕其工作的激烈争议，研究人员将探索多种道德传统，告知尊严概念。调查人员将采访民间社会的利益相关者，人权律师，法学家，国际权利专家以及参与该过程的受害者，以确定哪些来源可能会对TDC感到沮丧，何时以及如何经历其机制作为屈辱，是一种屈辱的形式以及对未来有尊严的愿望的程度可能会告知本·阿里（Ben Ali）的受害者对TDC做出回应的方式，并审核他们处理过去滥用的策略。这项研究的结果将洞悉尊严的原因，这是一种有价值的愿望，不符合这种道德传统的决定的社会和经济成本，以及非自由基人正在转向重新尊重其尊严的根本性替代方案的原因。