A Different Kind of War Story: Centering Love and Care in Peace and Conflict Studies

不同类型的战争故事：以和平与冲突研究为中心的爱与关怀

• 批准号: 508062692
• 负责人: Dr. Philipp Schulz
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/508062692?language=en
• 关键词: Different; Kind; War; Story; Centering

Our research in contexts affected by armed conflict suggests that relations and practices of love and care shape how people make sense of and survive experiences of violence. In the midst and wake of armed conflict, people continue to forge intimate relationships, fall in love, and extend different forms of care to one another. Yet, narratives about armed conflict predominantly focus on harms and suffering. This project asks: How can relations and practices of love and care change scholarly and policy understandings of conflict and peace?Love and care are active practices, not passive emotions. Through in-depth, qualitative fieldwork in Uganda and Colombia, we will explore how conflict-affected individuals and communities experience, understand, and practice love and care. We will also investigate how these practices shape how people make sense of violence and remake worlds in its wake. Building on scholarly literature on the ethics of care, the anthropology of care, and emotions in world politics, the project will analyze how love and care illuminate different meanings of politics and the political in the context of armed conflict and peacebuilding. Recognizing that love and care also shape researchers’ relationships to their identity and subject matter, we will further examine how practices of love and care underpin and sustain the work of scholars of violence. We do not deny the importance of ongoing studies of harm and injustice; rather, we make the case for the significance of considering practices of love and care alongside violence. Theoretically and analytically, a focus on love and care can shift our sense of what peace looks and feels like, where it takes place, who is involved in the making of it, when violence ends and peace begins, and how violence lives on and transforms people’s lives. This contribution reflects a feminist approach to violence and peace research, which calls for investigating these subjects in ways that go beyond the formal, official actors and actions associated with political violence and peacebuilding. Ethically and methodologically, this project responds to emerging calls for scholars of violence to move beyond damage-centered research in favor of also meaningfully engaging with the forces and relations that sustain life.

我们对受武装冲突影响的环境进行的研究表明，爱与关怀的关系和实践塑造了人们如何理解暴力经历并在武装冲突之后幸存下来。然而，有关武装冲突的叙述主要集中在伤害和痛苦上。该项目提出的问题是：爱与关怀的关系和实践如何改变对冲突与和平的学术和政策理解？爱与关怀是积极的。通过深入的实践，而不是被动的情感，在乌干达和哥伦比亚的定性实地调查中，我们将探讨受冲突影响的个人和社区如何体验、理解和实践爱与关怀。我们还将调查这些做法如何塑造人们对暴力的理解并在此基础上重塑世界。该项目将研究关爱伦理、关爱人类学和世界政治中的情感等学术文献，分析关爱和关爱如何阐明政治以及武装冲突和和平建设背景下的政治的不同含义。塑造研究人员与其身份的关系和主题，我们将进一步研究爱和关怀的实践如何支撑和维持暴力学者的工作。从理论上和分析上讲，对爱和关怀的关注可以改变我们对和平的看法和感觉，和平发生在哪里，谁参与了和平的实现，何时暴力结束和平开始，以及暴力如何存在并改变人们的生活。这一贡献反映了暴力与和平研究的女权主义方法，它要求以超越与政治暴力和和平建设相关的正式、官方行为者和行动的方式调查这些主题，该项目在伦理和方法上响应了学者们不断出现的呼吁。学者们试图超越以损害为中心的研究，转而有意义地参与维持生命的力量和关系。