Social protection and sustainable peace in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Building a new welfare-centered politics

中东和北非地区的社会保护与可持续和平：建立以福利为中心的新政治

• 批准号: AH/T008067/2
• 负责人: Rana Jawad
• 金额: $ 148.35万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT008067%2F2
• 关键词: Social; protection; sustainable; peace; Middle

Led by the MENA Social Policy Network, University of Bath, www.menasp.com (founded in 2012 and convened by Jawad, PI), in partnership with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), this proposal brings together a host of UK and international research leaders and partner organisations to undertake an ambitious programme of cross-disciplinary innovation and capability development in the governance of social policy in MENA. The distinctive contribution this network will make is to introduce a paradigm shift in MENA conflict prevention research, policy and practice that will enhance the social welfare politics of Arab countries in the Sothern Mediterranean region (Levant and North Africa) - our geographical focus. These are ODA compliant countries, the highest exporters of economic migration to Europe and historically, at the nexus of armed conflict in MENA. The Network management team includes expertise in ethics, mental health and disability, Middle East history, anthropology, urban planning and the environment, gender, visual arts and education. Our Network vision is: to demonstrate, through a mutually supportive framework of innovative, cross-disciplinary research and capacity development for policy change, how effective social policy governance in MENA can provide nuanced and contextualised pathways to peace and emerging localised solution-driven initiatives. We will do this through a programme of work that will serve GCRF goals as follows: (1) maximising the impact of Co-I-led proof of concepts and an £800,000's worth of LMIC and UK-led commissioned research strand that is co-designed with LMIC partners and builds on localised expertise; (2) fostering shared learning across innovative peacebuilding research projects and testing the feasibility, scalability, transferability and effectiveness of different approaches across diverse fragile MENA countries; (3) bringing conflict prevention research more centrally into sustainable development planning and programming through the apparatus of social policy governance and its affiliated concept of social protection thereby addressing directly SDGs 1, 3 (reduce poverty; achieve wellbeing across life course), 5 (achieve gender equality), 10 (reduce inequalities) and 11 (promote inclusive peace). Our aims are: (1) Cross-disciplinary innovation: to improve knowledge bases and practices in conflict prevention and sustainable peace in MENA by focusing on the interconnections between community-level social justice grievances and the macro-level governance of social policy; (2) Capacity development of existing research and policy practice: we will support policy learning and "design thinking" such as through policy labs, social policy governance seminars and an e-learning course for policy-makers. We argue that there is momentum for a fresh and expanded reassessment of the nature and scope of conflict in MENA which directly addresses the long-overlooked question of community-level social justice grievances and how these react against or are reproduced by macro-level political decision-making. We will advance current knowledge and practice by showing how conflict prevention and social policy governance share common concerns: how to enable communities to live cohesively and share resources equitably. This is a fundamentally cross-disciplinary question about state-society relations, otherwise referred to in the contemporary international development literature as "political settlements". It is an issue of relevance to volatile MENA countries that are now implementing austerity policies at a time when they are also mandated to produce national development plans supporting the universal social protection vision of the SDG 2030 agenda. The challenges of social and income inequality in MENA are stark: in a 2015 report, the World Bank acknowledged the need to address the "quality of life" grievances that had fueled the Arab uprisings.

在www.menasp.com的MENA社会政策网络领导下在MENA中，采用跨学科创新和Cabelity Sepranction的跨学科创新和CABELITY发展的计划。重点。性别，视觉艺术和教育是我们的网络愿景：跨学科的研究和政策变化的能力发展，MENA的有效社会政策可以使和平的途径和新兴的本地化解决方案。共同领导的概念和800,000的LMIC和英国委托委托的Comissirch Strand，这与TH LMIC合作伙伴合作并以本地化专业知识为基础；通过社会政策治理的设备及其附属机构的各种脆弱的北非国家的可行性不同，从而直接解决了SDGS 1、3 ER平等），10（减少不平等）和11个（促进我们的和平）是：（1）跨学科的创新：通过将Onterc Onterc重点放在社区级别的社会正义不满和社会政策的宏观态度之间，以改善冲突和平的知识基础。我们将学习和“例如通过政策实验室，社会政策治理研讨会和电子学习者。g政策制定者的课程。我们认为，对梅纳人的自然冲突范围进行了新的和扩展的势头，直接增加了这种冲突范围社区级别的社会社会社会正义和这些反应，或者是由宏观政治决策复制的 - 关于国家社会关系的案学问题，否则在当代国际发展文献中提到。 2030年议程。