GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-NKN59KC-EUZEBGQ-BY2JC2A DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Turkey is one of the most archaeologically and culturally rich places in the World with 18 UNESCO World Heritage sites, and an additional 78 locations in the tentative list. Flooding and landslides are one of the most destructive types of natural disaster in Turkey. Flood impacts in Turkey are felt severely in major cities of the country. Istanbul (the largest city of Turkey with 15 million inhabitants) and its UNESCO World Heritage historical areas have recently suffered from frequent floods as a result of intense rainfalls under a changing climate. The severe floods of August-September 2009 in the Marmara region of Turkey were categorised as an event greater than the 500-year return period. These floods caused 31 human losses, affected 35,000 people, and led to significant damages in major urban cities, particularly in Istanbul, with an economic loss more than $100 million. Many parts of the old city centre (Historic Peninsula) of Istanbul were flooded. The Historic peninsula had also suffered from several major floods in December 2010, July 2017, February 2018 and August 2019. Heavy rains cause flooding events more frequently in recent years than in the past. The deadly 2019 floods, rainfall-triggered landslides, and the subsequent moisture problems have resulted in significant structural damages to cultural heritage; in particular Small HagiaSofia and Ahi Çelebi Mosque (which was at that time in a restoration process). Our proposed research will involve susceptibility mapping of cultural heritage to climate-change driven hazards, with a particular focus on the floods and landslides hazards on Istanbul's world heritage sites. The mapping, based on a risk assessment framework, will then be used to develop a response policy. In developing risk assessment frameworks, it is the normal presumption that "heritage assets are irreplaceable and that heritage is a 'non-renewable resource' ". However, the risk assessment framework to be developed within this project will need to recognise the inevitability and potential of loss. We will recognise the inevitability of loss, where the impacts of climate and environmental change may lead to the conclusion that conservation and perpetuation of some monuments are unsustainable. The potential of loss could imply that, where monuments have been damaged by landslides and floods, in addition to the option of reconstructing the heritage to its pre-disaster condition, we should consider a new form of the heritage, where the history of disaster is reflected in the modified monument. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL DURHAM UNIVERSITY Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Turkey 38299.26 -4065.02 12766.44 12766.42 12766.4 38299.26 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-NKN59KC-EUZEBGQ-WAW67P5 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY This research addresses an acute threat to Brazilian cultural heritage from a predicted hazard that has been persistently raised as an urgent concern by a range of international scientific experts, local engineers and community activists. A pilot project will be undertaken within Brazil's Quadrilatero Ferrifero (Iron Quadrangle), a region of rich cultural, environmental and historical value but also the site of Brazil's largest iron ore reserves. The Iron Quadrangle includes two UNESCO World Heritage sites (Ouro Preto and Congonhas), five towns classified as Brazilian National Heritage sites, hundreds of listed monuments, unique archaeological sites and some of Brazil's significant indigenous rock paintings and ceramics. The gold, soapstone and vibrant pigments of the minerals of the Iron Quadrangle were transformed in the 17th and 18th centuries by sculptors, painters, craftworkers and engineers into architecture that represents the apotheosis of the Brazilian Baroque. The region's abundant immaterial culture is rooted in tastes, sounds, words, rhythms, dances, decorations and rituals that have been forged in contested histories and mined from Brazil's most vertiginous and verdant land. Yet the people, the outstanding natural environment and the rich cultural heritage are at imminent risk from catastrophic natural and humanitarian disaster resulting from industrial mining. Two major landslip and flood events between 2015-2019 resulted in the loss of almost 300 lives and wreaked environmental devastation along a 1000km watershed. Despite the unique cultural significance of Brazil's Iron Quadrangle, there has been no systematic research to measure the impact of recent disasters on the region's cultural heritage or on the lives of local communities. The project will pilot a community-based, collaborative approach to redressing the chronic lack of data in Brazil's current disaster response policy. In partnership with the Inhotim Institute (Latin America's largest outdoor art collection and one of Brazil's most prestigious contemporary art galleries), the research team will propose and test a method to train representatives from local arts and cultural organisations in methodologies that co-create inventories of cultural practices and assets. Using multi-disciplinary indicator tools to calibrate cultural value the research will examine what role cultural heritage can have as part of a process of transformation and regeneration. The project will establish Inhotim as a competence centre - 'hub' - for a community-based research strategy that values cultural heritage as a means of securing survival against future risks. A key aim of this project is to enhance cultural heritage's role in social agendas and influence decisions by policy makers by highlighting the measurable social, cultural and economic benefits of cultural assets and resources in dialogue with local communities, artists and cultural organisations. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Brazil 38944.36 12981.47 12981.44 12981.45 38944.36 GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-AH_V006363_1 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY The project develops a Fragile Heritage Framework that is participatory and inclusive where host communities co-lead the process of understanding risk and loss concerning their local heritages from social change and climate change. SDG 4, 13 Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL DURHAM UNIVERSITY Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Pakistan 2013.68 30916.98 85158 -3963.29 85158.0 15458.49 15458.49 2013.68 118088.66 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-NKN59KC-EUZEBGQ-782SS8V DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Cultural Heritage (CH) shapes our identity, delivers capacities and exposes vulnerabilities yet cultural value and vulnerability are missing from conventional risk assessments that support sustainable development and growth. There is an urgent need to support the world's most vulnerable populations to adapt and thrive to rapid environmental change. Identifying and developing interdisciplinary methods that can be used to capture the 'invisible' vulnerability and value of CH is an urgent policy need, highlighted by ICOMOS's Future from our Past Report (2019). This need is greatest in developing countries where people often lack the resources and agency to develop frameworks for risk informed natural hazard management. Working in partnership across Indonesia, South Africa, and Sri Lanka this project will combine heritage management, cultural geography and climate risk research to form a community of practice focused on Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) and: 1) identify the key parameters for CH impact assessment; 2) deliver an impact modelling approach to inform risk information for decision-making, and 3) share resulting tools and learning through capacity building and research for policy. The 'CRITICAL: Cultural Heritage Risk and Impact Tools for Integrated and Collaborative Learning' project will directly benefit LMIC researchers, heritage/cultural organisations, as well as local policy-makers through the development of methods for inclusive risk assessment and research based capacity development activities. CRITICAL will benefit LMIC communities through improved cultural heritage and disaster management. CRITICAL provides an evidence base for ensuring economic viability of CH sites alongside their preservation and highlights the influence and significance intangible CH such as traditional knowledge systems. The CRITICAL team will deliver new and novel methods, data and information to evidence the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport's (DCMS) CH protection workstream and contribute towards the CH and climate change research sector. The University of Edinburgh in academic partnership with Universitas Gadja Mada, Indonesia; the University of Pretoria, South Africa; and University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka will collate diverse knowledge on CH with the aim to co-develop CH vulnerability models and create the foundation for a place-based risk framework for LMIC. CRITICAL is structured around four interconnected work packages (WP): WP1: Cultural Heritage Vulnerability and Values: A forensic investigation of past events and impacts on partner identified CH case study sites to identify key indicators for CH vulnerability and values. WP2: Impact Modelling: Using the indicators from WP1, WP2 will deliver co-created vulnerability models and pilot case study scenarios as evidence for CH protection and management from extreme hazard events and climate change. WP3: Virtual Capability Building: WP3 will ensure sustainability and global reach through a comprehensive and targeted capacity building e-course in risk and impact modelling for CH protection targeting LMIC early career researchers, practitioners, and wider stakeholders. WP4: Connecting community values for policy delivery: WP4 will co-develop a framework for future research focussed on the integration of community-based values into impact modelling and decision making for CH protection. WP4 will capture research findings and policy recommendations from all WPs. We are experiencing an environmental and social crisis due to unprecedented climate change, alongside a shift in normal research practice due to COVID-19. By using remote research collaboration methods, CRITICAL will examine, capture and share CH vulnerability and value for comprehensive impact modelling in LMICs. This meets an urgent policy need: the co-development of cultural risk-scapes to support place-based climate and disaster decision making. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Developing countries, unspecified 39212.380000000005 -1376.9 13070.8 13070.79 13070.79 39212.38 GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-AH_V00638X_1 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Project in earthquake prone regions of India focussing on change from disaster-response approaches to heritage management where policy is created post-catastrophe in an emergency context to an overall strategy in between and during disasters. SDG 11 Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET India 2013.68 25363.63 -0.01 25363.63 2013.68 27377.31 GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-AH_V006398_1 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Project develops strategies and participatory processes with stakeholder perspectives to be used in adaptation and mitigation measures required to tackle climate change, assessing climate data and traditional land management methods in Yemen. SDG 13 Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Yemen 2013.68 23923.4 -245.77 23923.4 2013.68 25937.08 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-NKN59KC-EUZEBGQ-AQGR6QJ DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Climate change poses a major threat to cultural and industrial heritage conservation in Damietta. Not only does sea-level rise endanger significant heritage sites, but also puts at risk the conservation and continuance of cultural values and practices that form irreplaceable layers of history in this community, embodied in the local craft and value chain, as well as the industry's social capital and spatio-temporal networks. Critically, the interrelated tangible and intangible cultural heritage directly affect the city's resilience and economic growth. This project aims to examine, quantitatively map and promote the cultural and economic resilience of Damietta, which is under threat from climate change and contemporary political decision-making that is insensitive to its socio-cultural heritage. By documenting and highlighting indigenous knowledge and the tangible cultural heritage of this craft industry and its social networks, a strong case can be made to protect these practices and save the economic livelihood of the city's inhabitants. The methodology adopts a mixed methods approach, comprising interviews, focus groups and stakeholder workshops, which verify a geospatial GIS network map based on field survey. The research utilises Network Theory, Social Capital Theory and Competitive Advantage Theory as a basis for the evidence to quantity Social Capital and visualise its resilience in relation to space. The project outputs include visual GIS mapping of Social Capital networks as cultural heritage, online interactive platform as a shared arena for furniture industry community awareness towards climate change mitigation, recommendations for inclusive decision-making for municipalities and local authorities, as well as building the case for Damietta's furniture industry network for recognition in UNESCO's ICH programme. This project tackles several UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that relate to cultural heritage, economic growth/reform and sustainability in terms of climate action: decent work and economic growth; industry and innovation; sustainable cities and communities; and climate action (SDG 8, 9, 11, and 13). This offers an opportunity for data-driven sustainable development in Egypt, which is included in the ODA list on reporting for 2020 aid to mitigate against climate change. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Egypt 97141.7 -36030.04 12516.84 12516.84 72108.02 97141.7 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-NKN59KC-EUZEBGQ-QD9HFKU DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Climate change poses an existential threat to all humanity. Understanding this change and adapting to it has become the greatest challenge of our time. From rising sea-levels, more extreme weather events and aridification, the extensive impacts of climate are evident at heritage sites globally and the pace of this change is startling. In most parts of the world the rate of loss is exceeding adaptive capacity and this deficit is only getting worse, especially in the global south. Decisions on conservation and preservation begin with a detailed understanding of a place's vulnerability. The choices made will directly impact that ability to effectively integrate the goals of safeguarding cultural heritage, adapting and mitigating climate change, and driving sustainable development. Previous assessment methodologies must be revised to accurately evaluate the vulnerability of cultural heritage sites and their associated communities in the face of a changing climate. There is an urgent need to develop community-based, quick (and yet effective) new techniques and methodologies, and these must be scalable globally. The CVI Africa Project seeks to address this need. The proposed research project centres on training heritage professionals through piloting a new, protype heritage management methodology known as the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) in Africa. CVI provides an assessment of the physical and ecological impacts of current and projected climate change on the heritage values of sites and also provides a high-level assessment of the economic, social and cultural consequences of climate change for the site and the associated community. The Project is designed both to adapt existing methodology to the African cultural context and also draw on African expertise to inform refinements in the general CVI methodology. The CVI Africa project will provide foundational training in vulnerability assessment using the CVI method to train six heritage professionals from low and middle income African countries. It will utilise UK and international expertise to develop and deliver online, transferrable and scalable training resources to training participants. The project will culminate in two workshops in Nigeria (Sukur Cultural Landscape) and Tanzania (The Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara) which are impacted by climate change. These workshops will include the training participants, local and national experts and stakeholders, and international partners and will culminate in a publicly available and locally published report. The project will also foster new relationships and encourage knowledge exchange by bringing together collaborators from many organisations and working with new and existing members of the Climate Heritage Network (CHN), a network of arts, culture and heritage organisations committed to aiding their communities in tackling climate change and achieving the ambitions of the Paris Agreement. These include lead investigators from Queen's University Belfast, Historic Environment Scotland, the University of Highlands and Islands and the African World Heritage Fund. Local partner organisations include the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism and the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments. Other international partner organisations include the International Committee on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), Historic England, the International National Trust Organisation (INTO) and the Union of Concerned Scientists who will all play roles in project training and/ or workshop participation. Finally, the project will work with the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and other similar projects to develop a longer term and sustainable Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) funded workstream, to respond effectively to climate change impacts on cultural heritage focused on developing countries. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET South of Sahara, regional 45443.06 -23530.74 15747.3 17178.92 12516.84 45443.06 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-NKN59KC-EUZEBGQ-D4QZX3S DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY This proposed study is in response to the urgency grants highlight notice on impacts on cultural heritage resulting from natural disasters and climate change. In March 2019, devastating floods due to Cyclone Idai left Zimbabwe hard hit and devastated in terms of loss to human life and livestock as well as damage to property (UN Report, 2019). About 270,000 people were affected by Cyclone Idai, approximately 339 died, 15,230 displaced and about 349 are still missing to date. The Government of Zimbabwe and its development partners (international and local NGOs) have been on the forefront assisting the affected communities in Manicaland district with humanitarian aid and with relocating and reconstructing affected communities, especially in Chimanimani, Chipinge and Buhera districts. Hence, the urgent need to conduct this study so that it inputs into the post-Cyclone Idai recovery programme being championed by the Government of Zimbabwe and its development partners. Climate change induced disasters, such as Cyclone Idai, pose a severe threat to cultural heritage. Cultural heritage plays an important role as a reflection of cultural, historical, and social values, is valuable to national and community identities, and it links to the past, and ongoing social cohesion. However, the adverse effects of climate change induced natural disasters on cultural heritage tend to be considered primarily in connection with tangible or physical cultural properties, such as buildings, monuments, or archeological sites, and less in connection with Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, indigenous rituals, kinship systems. For example, the two most pronounced Post-cyclone Idai recovery initiatives in the nine affected districts in Manicaland province; the Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project (ZIRP) and the Post Cyclone Idai Emergency Recovery and Resilience Project (PCIREP), are mainly focused on livelihoods and infrastructure. ZIRP is focusing on rebuilding community infrastructure and restoring livelihoods through cash transfers, restoring agricultural crops and livestock production. The PCIREP programme is focusing on rebuilding key infrastructure across Zimbabwe, which include transport, electricity, and water and sanitation. None of these programmes are targeted at recovering or restoring the ICH of the affected communities. Intangible heritage faces considerable risks through the scattering of communities such as what happened in the Cyclone Idai hit districts in Zimbabwe where 10,000 houses were destroyed and the families are being relocated to other districts. This type of damage often has a longer-lasting social impact e.g., affect cultural diversity and socio-cultural interactions as families are forced to change their community set up, ways of life, and to compete for resources. There is urgent need to include ICH within the framework of disaster risk management being used in recovering and rebuilding Cyclone Idai affected communities in Manicaland province in Zimbabwe as cultural heritage is often damaged or destroyed in the aftermath of a disaster due to insensitive conservation, recovery, and reconstruction. Hence, this study is of urgency to provide evidence-based information on the intangible cultural heritage of these affected communities that is useful for sustainable resilience, reconstruction and relocation of the affected communities. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL MARONDERA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Zimbabwe 89286.95999999999 -18834.05 36054.03 36054.01 17178.92 89286.96 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-NGRHHDB DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Globally, humanitarian agencies with a mandate for child protection act to prevent harm to children in settings of armed conflict and displacement. Tragically, despite their best efforts, protection work is often unequal to the threats that children and caregivers face. The consequences are conveyed through the media with depressing regularity: children become 'collateral damage' and young refugees languish in camps or urban slums with insufficient basic support. As a sub-field of humanitarianism, child protection has focussed on the development of technical competence under the guidance of health, psychology and social work experts. This project acknowledges the immense strides taken to professionalise the field while also recognising that a technocratic approach on its own is too narrow and attends insufficiently to issues of power. The proposed project pursues a multidisciplinary inquiry into the functioning of the humanitarian system and its impact on child protection efforts. We take this system to be constituted by a range of actors: humanitarian agencies, donors and host government authorities as well as children, caregivers and communities. A central theme of the research is neglect because globally, child neglect is the most prevalent cause of child maltreatment. Yet, neglect has only just become a focus of concern for child protection organisations in humanitarian settings, which primarily understands it as a failure of caregiving. We will relocate neglect within the humanitarian system in order to understand the consequences for children and caregivers of the workings of power within that system. From this perspective, neglect may take the form, for example, of a lack of attention to particular groups of children or the voices of young people and their caregivers regarding their protection needs. Donor priorities or local politics are two elements within the system that may contribute to the experience of neglect. We are aware that some caregivers fail to give children the care that they are capable of providing. However, we also recognise that there are structural factors that systematically undermine caregivers' ability to meet their duties of care. Thus, we focus on how the humanitarian system supports or undermines the capacity of caregivers to protect and care for their children. The research entails three case studies in two locations. In Jordan we shall look at the situation of Syrians and Iraqis, two displaced populations with significant commonalities. Both have generally enjoyed support from humanitarian agencies to varying extent at different times. The second Jordanian study will focus on Somalis and Sudanese, distinguishable from the aforementioned groups by culture, 'race', and due to less recognition by the state and support from humanitarians. In Gaza we will explore the experience and views of original inhabitants and those who settled as refugees, attending to differences in the support these two groups receive. Employing participatory research methods, social network analysis, family biographies and key informant interviews, we will explore norms of care, the role of humanitarian agencies in assisting caregivers to meet such expectations, and the consequences for children when norms are not realised. The core multidisciplinary research team will be joined by 36 'peer researchers' from the study communities and 9 early career social workers. Thus, the project will build capacity throughout its implementation. The envisaged outputs and dissemination strategy target policymakers within the global child protection field, locally-based agencies, civil servants and parliamentarians in donor nations, general publics, and the research communities themselves. Our overarching goal is to expand thinking and deepen understanding of neglect and child protection in humanitarian contexts and to advance an approach that strives to uphold core humanitarian principles of universality and independence. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL UNIVERSITY OF BATH Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Middle East, regional 86100 132231.54 -44251.93 46131.15 86100.39 86100.0 218331.54 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-MQZL5EA DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Providing strangers with safety against the brutal violence of contemporary conflicts is morally and logistically complicated especially when that violence is inflicted by their own governments. The United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other global authorities have long debated these conundrums and, to address the expansion of related practices in the 1990s, gave a new meaning to 'humanitarian protection'. However, this meaning has proved to be complicated and problematic. In reality, people claiming to provide humanitarian protection do radically diverse activities, rely on different forms of enforcement and have different ideas about who and how people should be kept safe during conflict. Even more importantly, despite the expansion of humanitarian protection, people are often not kept safe but are instead left bewildered. People can have very different moral ideas and different fears, not only of physical harm, but also of spiritual, social and cultural harm. Plus, in reality, all actors have limits to their altruism in practice; even, humanitarian protection itself is partly about protecting humanitarians. In addition, as moral schemes are not static but are constantly renegotiated, power dynamics make a difference to these negotiations and subsequent understandings of why and how strangers should be kept safe. These power dynamics can embed hierarchies between men and women, as well as other patterns of social exclusion. We are interested in how people deal with these complex moral, logistical, spiritual and intellectual problems in their daily practices of keeping strangers safe in specific localities during conflict. Our research explores the hidden moral anxieties of national/international humanitarian protection actors as they work in local contexts. We also explore how other actors contest or co-opt these humanitarian ideas and provide different forms of safety. Our research uses history, anthropology, curation, ethnomusicology and theology to explore the practice of the UN and NGOs (both international and national), as well as church leaders, chiefs and other local authority figures. We focuse on South Sudan and its borderlands. For over forty years, South Sudan has been a seminal site for testing humanitarian protection ideas. Plus, South Sudan is currently experiencing a protracted conflict, including extreme kinds of humanitarian violations. Despite large-scale international attempts at humanitarian protection, South Sudanese have not been safe and millions of people have fled over borders and into neighbouring countries. South Sudanese public authority figures, including chiefs, 'witchdoctors', vigilantes, bishops, Pentecostals, Nuer prophets and women leaders have also used a range of strategies to try to keep people safe. We explore these contested ideas of protection, and the authority entangled within these negotiations. Our team is uniquely placed to carry out this research. Dr Leben Moro and Professor Tim Allen have produced ground-breaking research on protection related themes since the early 1990s. Dr Moro and Dr Naomi Pendle have also carried out some of the only recent research on protection in South Sudan. Plus, our team has nearly a century of combined experience researching in South Sudan and its borderlands. We also bring new ideas to the discussion by prioritising research and publication by African early career scholars. We do this by increasing the capacity of the University of Juba to offer teaching on research in humanitarian protection. We, additionally, make sure that our research has a positive impact on humanitarian policy and practice. One way we are doing this is by working closely with three humanitarian organisations, namely an international organisation (Norwegian Refugee Council) but also two South Sudanese organisations (Nile Hope and CARD). Finally, we have an advisory board of high-profile practitioners from other organisations. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET South Sudan 61037 107168.56 -7686.6 46131.15 61037.41 61037.0 168205.56 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-CFB4S2B DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY The notion that the international community has a duty or "responsibility to protect" is not new. It has been raised not only in the context of armed conflict but also when addressing economic, social and cultural rights. In both contexts, the concept includes: the duty to respect; the duty to protect and; the duty to fulfil, that is, to work actively to establish political, economic, and social systems as well as infrastructure that provide access to the guaranteed right to all members of the population. While the responsibility to fulfil these obligations fall primarily to states within their own borders where a state fails or lacks capacity, that responsibility increasingly falls to the international community. Member states have, in turn, attempted to respond to the needs of individuals living in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCAS) by developing protection interventions. Yet what is clear from existing academic research and UN reports, determining the most effective and appropriate protection interventions that affirm rights and mitigate physical or psychological harm poses a number of significant challenges for the international community. In focusing on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), this proposal will address one such challenge and fill what we argue to be significant gaps in current research on male CRSV survivors. Drawing on the work of Jill Stauffer (2015) and Philipp Schultz (2018), we will apply Stauffer's concept of 'ethical loneliness,' defined as the "isolation one feels when one, as a violated person or as one member of a persecuted group, has been abandoned by humanity, or by those who have power" (1) to male CRSV survivors. We argue that in focusing on this subject group and adopting this conceptual framework, our research will engage four of the designated thematic areas of this call-Impact of Violations, Impact of Absent or Ineffective Protection Programming, Impact of Recognition Protection, Impact of Targeting on groups excluded from targeted protection/response. In his Ugandan study of sexual violence, Schultz argues that providing a better understanding of the "effects of externally imposed and gender-specific silencing" has a "wider utility beyond male sexual violence" allowing us to better understand and address the multiple needs of "survivors of political and wartime gendered violence more broadly." In focusing on male CRSV, the research and methods proposed will address each prong of the 'egg model' and: 1. Provide a comprehensive base for understanding the factors that lead to male CRSV, and its patterns of abuse; 2. Examine the impact of the initial violation and subsequent harm from the invisibility of male CRSV including: lack of access to appropriate, culturally and gender sensitive treatment and support for survivors and their family; impact on societal cohesion of their community and; any further violence that may manifest. 3. Develop key strategies to address the layers of invisibility of male CRSV, and facilitate access to critical support and recovery services, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH), other medical care, Mental Health and Psycho-Social Support (MHPSS), protection, and access to justice/reparations. In each of these tasks, the research questions are designed to interrogate the drivers of invisibility (stigma, taboos, risks, gendered norms, absence or exclusion from policies and programming) which can leave male SV survivors behind. This, in turn, effects cohesion, stability and recovery within the wider community (including families - specifically women and girls, and community recovery post-conflict), and longer term, perhaps inter-generational transmission which has been seen for other atrocity crimes. The research design will also consider risk factors/victimology and typology, seeking to recognise risks and vulnerabilities of men and boys for CRSV in the first place (alert, prevention, protection). Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Syrian Arab Republic 168233 130245.91 46131.15 84114.76 168233.0 298478.91 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-RNNSKJZ DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY In 2016, delegates at the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants called for renewed attention to the burdens faced by host countries and communities affected by the arrival of refugees. While Europe had been the focus of much media attention during the so-called "refugee crisis" in 2015, the vast majority of the world's refugees live in low- and middle-income countries of the Global South, where host communities often face economic hardships even before the arrival of displaced populations. The New York Declaration recognised that if this burden was not addressed, refugees would face increasing hostility in the countries where they seek asylum. One response has been to include hosts in refugee programming, a strategy intended to foster social cohesion, contribute humanitarian resources to local development, and reduce xenophobia among displacement-affected communities. However, the evidence base supporting this approach is largely economic - focused on the burdens and benefits of hosting refugees - with few anthropological and sociological studies that address the more intimate social aspects of hosting that influence popular stereotypes and community relations. This is reflected in the lack of definition for policy objectives like 'social cohesion', which often refers vaguely to the sense of solidarity within or between communities. There has been little critical study of the premises upon which social cohesion programmes are devised, their effectiveness in achieving intended social outcomes, or the unintended structural and political consequences of extending the remit of humanitarian programmes to include hosts. This project entails an in-depth ethnographic study of social cohesion programmes and the contexts in which they are implemented, bringing sociological, historical, and anthropological lenses to bear on the recent 'host inclusivity' turn in humanitarian responses to displacement. Comparative research will be undertaken in multiple sites across two countries hosting large refugee populations - Kenya and Lebanon - with a multi-disciplinary research team drawing on expertise in the areas of policy and planning studies, urban studies, and peace and security studies. Researchers will spend extended periods of participant observation among communities involved in social cohesion interventions, and community members will engage directly in the research through participatory working groups. Qualitative insights will be supplemented by a number of short quantitative impact assessments of the effectiveness of different interventions in achieving their intended social outcomes. In addition to its academic contributions, this project would inform the strategies that humanitarian organisations adopt to reduce refugee-host tensions, improve the mutual benefits of programmes that engage both groups, and mitigate unintended outcomes. Impact will be amplified via our project partner the Jesuit Refugee Service, an international refugee protection NGO that has put 'social cohesion' at the centre of its 2018-2023 Strategic Framework. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Developing Countries, unspecified 73918 120048.78 -26318.75 46131.15 73917.63 73918.0 193966.78 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-FATK5UP DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY The project will examine the practice and interpretations of armed non-State actors with respect to the law of armed conflict and international human rights law. Through a comparative analysis of selected norms, it aims at generating a better understanding of their perspectives, inform humanitarian protection strategies and provide practical tools for humanitarian actors to enhance their engagement with armed non-State actors. While field research will be conducted in nine specific contexts (Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Mali, Myanmar, Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Philippines, Syria and Yemen), the findings of the project will have broader significance since many conflicts in the world involve armed non-State actors. In addition to a comprehensive comparative thematic analysis, a number of case studies, as well as practical guidelines for the humanitarian engagement of armed non-State actors will be published. These outputs will be distinctively relevant for: (i) humanitarian protection actors, including the partnering and supporting organisations (Geneva Call, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Diakonia); (ii) other actors that operate in conflict settings such as aid agencies; (iii) as well as academics, policy-makers and donors. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL GENEVA ACADEMY Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Developing Countries, unspecified 60398 107018.36 -32299.36 46131.15 60887.21 60398.0 167416.36 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-WPL4XDY DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY This mixed-method study is an international collaboration between the American University of Beirut and War Child Holland, supported by project partners the Danish Refugee Council and Terre des Hommes Italy, the Ministry of Public Health Lebanon, UNICEF, and international expertise from University College Dublin, the Boston College School of Social Work, and Queen's University Belfast. The study aims to develop and test a culturally and contextually sensitive Systemic Family Intervention Module for at-risk adolescents that can be run alongside existing focused psychosocial programmes in Lebanon. Focused psychosocial support aims to promote wellbeing and resilience and to reduce mental ill-health in young people at risk of child protection violations, including gender-based violence, child marriage, and child labour. One in five children globally live in conflict affected areas, and these children experience a high incidence of mental disorders. The global burden of disease for mental disorders is 5 times higher in conflict-affected areas than the global average. Young people are affected not only by the violence, loss, and insecurity of war, but the systemic impact on their living conditions, access to school and health care, structural discrimination, and gender-based violence, as well as their caregivers trauma, stress, and compromised parenting capacity. The devastating impact of war, conflict, and extreme adversity on the mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents has been extensively researched, but with continuing challenges in improving the quality and scope of interventions for these populations. The treatment gap in low resourced settings is as high as 90%, with major barriers of limited infrastructure and trained specialists. As a strategy to close this gap, psychosocial support interventions as part of a stepped care coordinated approach have been developed and widely implemented. There is a small but growing evidence base for psychosocial interventions in conflict and humanitarian emergencies, however adolescent mental health and family-based interventions are drastically under-researched and under-resourced. Nurturing family environments are essential for healthy child development, and parenting and systemic family interventions in other populations and country settings show strong effectiveness for both mental health and protection outcomes. This study therefore aims to develop and evaluate a Family Systemic Intervention Module to use alongside UNICEF Lebanon's focused psychosocial support programme, to enhance current humanitarian programming and addressing a significant weakness of the current evidence base for at-risk adolescents and their families in conflict-affected contexts. Findings will inform the Mental Health System Reform in Lebanon led by the National Mental Health Programme of the Ministry of Public Health. Lebanon is a middle-income country, home to an estimated 1.5 million refugees in a population of around 5.9 million. The majority of refugees come from Syria, as well as almost half a million Palestinian refugees. Almost 60% of Syrian refugees are living in extreme poverty, unable to meet basic survival needs, whilst 30% of Lebanese host communities also live below the poverty line. The many social and economic pressures facing these populations increases the risk of child protection issues, through sexual and gender-based violence, domestic violence, child marriage, child labour and recruitment intro armed groups. In 2015, a 5-year Mental Health and Substance Use strategy for Lebanon 2015-2020 was launched with the aim of reforming the Mental Health System, and whilst much has been achieved, there remains a gap in the provision of family systemic interventions. Lebanon is therefore an ideal location for this study because it has both large vulnerable populations in need of focused support, as well as political will to integrate learning into the national mental health strategy. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Lebanon 60450 106580.81 46131.15 60449.66 60450.0 167030.81 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-EMPL7KD DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Protection has been systematically underfunded as an area of humanitarian action. One of the reasons for this is that humanitarian organizations have found it difficult to demonstrate the impact of their interventions. One problem is that the theories of change - that is, descriptions how activities lead to impact in a particular context - are often not made explicit. Achieving protection is a complex social change process. Rigid tools like classical log-frames are not well suited to planning and monitoring interventions in conflict contexts. The lack of more elaborate theories of change does not only make it harder to demonstrate the impact of protection interventions. It can also have negative effects on the design of protection interventions as it is harder to check assumptions, trace preconditions, and locate activities within a broader chain of results. The research project focuses on a particular type of protection intervention, namely efforts to encourage armed actors to comply with norms, referred to as restraint. The research starts by analysing and reconstructing the theories of change on which restraint activities are built. The research project then compares these theories of change with the perceptions of armed actors on what influences their behaviour towards civilians. It also establishes to what extent armed actors, protection actors, and conflict-affected communities perceive protection interventions as effective. The research will focus on Iraq. Project partner, the Institute of Regional and International Studies at the American University of Iraq, sought out the views of state security forces and non-state armed groups in Iraq. The research team also cross-checked with affected communities what they believe worked and what didn’t. Internal conflict has been a key development challenge for Iraq over the past decade and more. In this context, activities helping to ensure a better protection of civilians can make a critical contribution to help prevent the country from slipping back into conflict. The proposed research project will help develop or refine theories of change for preventive protection activities (i.e. activities that seek to encourage armed actors not to commit protection violations). This is expected to improve protection programs in Iraq as the theories of change will enable protection actors to better plan their activities. The research will also analyse the motivations and perceptions of armed actors. With this information, protection actors will be able to design programs that better fit the realities on the ground First, the reconstruction and development of theories of change is expected to make a direct contribution to how humanitarian organizations plan and implement protection interventions. Second, it will also contribute to the knowledge about evaluating impact of protection activities, an area where little research exists so far. Third, by focusing on Iraq, the project aims to inform the conceptual approach of protection research, moving away from only focusing on direct deaths and injuries, to also account for indirect mortality and injury caused by attacks on hospitals and other infrastructure. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Iraq 72929 119060.32999999999 -32707.33 46131.15 72929.18 72929.0 191989.33 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-ENQPUNK DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY The proposed 2-year project (2020-2022) by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and local research partners, namely the Centre for Democratic Governance (CGD) in Burkina Faso, Point Sud in Mali and the Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL) in Niger, focuses on the Liptako-Gourma region, encompassing Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Since 2015, this border region has become the epicenter of the Sahel crisis and both state and non-state armed groups have committed serious violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). Despite several national and international initiatives, the number of conflict-related victims has increased from 199 in 2012 to 1 464 in 2018, with a significant increase of IDPs, food insecurity, school closures, and gender-based violence. Several factors are at play, such as the absence of the state, the competition over natural resources, violent extremism, or the proliferation of self-protection militias and climate change. The project will focus on impact of restraint (theme 3) and impact of local protection mechanisms (theme 4), with diversity/gender as a crosscutting theme. The project will be structured around the following research questions: What are the protection threats, risks and vulnerabilities across the different groups of the population of Liptako-Gourma? What local protection mechanism do they use? On which social norms and rules are they based? What is the relation between local protection mechanisms and restraint from violence? Are there risks for people to protect themselves? How do humanitarian protection responses interact with local protection mechanisms (positive, neutral or negative)? How do the different groups of the population assess the impact of humanitarian responses on their own protection and safety? How can humanitarian protection optimally complement and support local protection mechanisms, without having any possible unintended negative consequences? The project aims to address the knowledge gaps and identify perceptions, priorities and needs of local populations in order (i) to document the situations at the grass-root level, (ii) to improve the effectiveness of DRC cycles of humanitarian protection programmes, and (iii) to support all relevant stakeholders through evidence-based analysis in better understanding the priorities of affected communities. To do so, the project will use a mixed research approach of quantitative surveys and qualitative studies led by networks of trained facilitators and researchers in each country to (a) better understand security and humanitarian issues at the micro-local level and; (b) measure the relevance and impact of humanitarian protection interventions in the region. Dedicated publications, regional events (validation/national sharing workshops, regional conference, practitioner meeting) and outputs (press conferences, video films) will allow a large dissemination of the findings and contribute to maximise the overall impact of the project. To ensure a long-term impact and sustainability of the project, the proposal also develops a capacity-building component for facilitators and researchers in the three countries in order to develop a local ownership of the methodology and working relations between partners in the three countries. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET South of Sahara, regional 69727 115857.68 70289.76 70289.76 46131.15 69726.53 69727.0 255874.44 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-XUXHJR3 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Our project aims to deliver evidenced-based programme recommendations to facilitate the achievement of sustainable resilience among displaced young women and girls in South Sudan (10 to age 24, which is the upper limit of the UN definition of 'youth'). The project will be driven and implemented by an extremely experienced team including academics, NGO staff and development management professionals. We will concentrate specifically on the experiences of violence against young women and girls. The research will focus on understanding the intersections between young age and a range of vulnerabilities influencing young women and girls' resilience to violence and general wellbeing. The research process will enable the particular contextual vulnerabilities to emerge during the initial phases, but we predict a focus on a range of factors including cross-cutting issues of gender discrimination, intermittent access to education and training, livelihoods, racism, cultural conflicts and a general lack of youth decision making power. We know that girls and young women are highly vulnerable at times of conflict and post displacement caused by conflict however understanding these vulerabilities through a girl centred approach is lacking in how protective programming is designed and implemtented. This research then intends to develop innovative new methodologies in taking such an approach adhering to ethics and safeguarding practice. We will take an innovative mixed-methods approach, combining art heritage techniques with quantitative and qualitative surveys and interview tools. This will offer a depth of insight into the ways in which varied categories of girls and young women understand and respond to their precarious positions post-displacement, and will help us to synchronise our participants' voices to provide meaningful messages for the future. Our project will have four strands, which are not strictly chronological. Strand 1: Scoping study of South Sudanese displacement and humanitarian interventions in South Sudan and Uganda. This will map relevant programming in the VAWG field, specifically focused on South Sudanese young people. As a part of this work, the strand will implement a detailed Systematic Review focused on drawing out the global evidence on what works to tackle violence against young women and girls. Strand 2: Evaluative learning processes to be implemented. Based on the scoping study we will select a range of completed programmes and conduct post-project evaluations to determine what has worked well, and what the key challenges have been in terms of building sustainable resilience to gender based violence and preventing this violence. Qualitative and quantitative methods will be used for this strand. Strand 3: Thematic learning, drawing specifically on arts-based research methods. Our thematic learning will take an innovative mix of approaches from within the arts and humanities designed to capture experiences of vulnerabilities. As a team we have already designed and used such approaches which have proven to work well in sensitive contexts, including South Sudan and other countries. Strand 4: Design and pilot of new interventions. Based on the findings of strands 1, 2 and 3 we will work with young people in a selected context to design and implement a new intervention to target violence against displaced young women and girls. This will be driven by our Co-I Plan International, a hugely experienced international NGO. The intervention, which is likely to continue past project end, will be monitored closely to maximise further lesson learning. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET South Sudan 64539 110670.04000000001 65061.63 65061.63 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY -158963.22 65061.63 46131.15 64538.89 64539.0 240270.67 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-NM37SSZ DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY The project conducts research on the currently two largest African peace operation, the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) and the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Both missions have complex mandates and combine military (combat), political (stabilisation/statebuilding) and humanitarian goals. The protection of civilians became a cornerstone of both missions. Military peacekeepers are often required to straddle combat and pacific responsibilities, combining military, diplomatic and humanitarian roles. They fight violent actors who are often not easily distinguishable from civilians, patrol roads and convoy humanitarian deliveries, while they are simultaneously requested to develop relations with communities affected by violence, to mediate conflicts and often also to provide humanitarian goods. The project explores how UN and AU peacekeepers in the DRC and in Somalia fulfil their protection mandate from the perspective of protection providers and protection recipients: military peacekeepers (provider), civilians (recipients) and humanitarian worker (recipients and ideally partners of peacekeepers). It will provide an in-depth and differentiated account on how military peacekeepers navigate their increasingly complex roles, swap between combat and pacific responsibilities and how their protection efforts are experienced at the recipients' end. This knowledge is crucial in improving protection efforts. The findings of the research will be shared in round tables with all three actor groups. The round tables aim at receiving feed-back on the research. More importantly, they also aim at providing a platform for communication and at stimulating dialogue between military peacekeepers, civil humanitarian actors and civilians. Round tables will be organised by local civil society organisations who partner in the research project, and it is expected that they will uphold communication links even after the research ended. The findings, i.e. the experiences of the providers and recipients of protection, will feed into a peacekeeping training module. The module will be developed in cooperation with the International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) in Nairobi. The training will be piloted during a workshop with AU and UN trainers and representatives of military headquarters and military trainers of troop contributing countries. The evaluation of the participants will help to fine-tune the training and to finalize a training handbook that will be made publically available and shared with peacekeeping training centres and military headquarters of troop contributing countries. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL DURHAM UNIVERSITY Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET South of Sahara, regional 49904 96035.23999999999 46131.15 49904.09 49904.0 145939.24 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-LRLZWQ9 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Data-driven practices of targeted humanitarian protection are in urgent need of assessment, since these raise a range of practical and ethical questions that directly impact at-risk populations. While the targeting of protection needs through the production of data is common practice, the proliferation of large-scale quantitative, biometric and visual data within the humanitarian field is unprecedented. Established in 2014, there are presently 10,055 datasets for 253 locations from 1219 sources on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX). This project produces a timely and robust analysis of data-driven protection targeting, focusing on two contexts that are characterised by conflict and high numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs): northern Nigeria and South Sudan. It does so by assessing the implications of the production and use of large-scale data in targeting humanitarian protection, particularly on those most directly affected by such developments: IDPs themselves. The increasing production and use of large-scale data is not unique to the field of humanitarianism. However, the stakes are particularly high when it comes to data-driven practices of targeting protection for those most at risk. Humanitarian interventions are designed to protect the most vulnerable groups, hence any misuse or miscalculation in the use of data can have a drastic effect on at-risk populations. Careful assessment of the practical and ethical implications of data-driven targeting of protection is thus foundational. It is often assumed that humanitarians can be trusted more than commercial organisations or governments in collating and using large-scale data, due to their mandate of 'do no harm'. Yet it is vital to examine the potential risks, exclusions and biases or vulnerabilities implicit in the production and use of such data. While data can enable quicker, efficient and improved evidence-based responses, critical questions surrounding processes of data collection and what counts as evidence, the ethics of data collection and its use, and the accountability and protection of the data produced in contexts of vulnerability are increasingly necessary. Our research addresses these questions based on the research team's combined interdisciplinary academic and operational expertise. The project brings together academic researchers from the UK and Nigeria with practitioners from the International Organisation for Migration - the United Nations Migration Agency, which is responsible for the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM). DTM is the system deployed to track and monitor displacement and population mobility, and forms one of the largest data collectors on IDPs globally. Our project examines the work of DTM in the context of wider datasets used for the targeting of humanitarian protection in northern Nigeria and South Sudan. It focuses on practical and ethical challenges that arise in the collection and use of such data, and undertakes in-depth research with local stakeholders and internally displaced communities. The project asks: How effective is the data-based targeting of humanitarian protection in practice? Who benefits from such practices - and who is excluded? And how can the data-driven targeting be developed to reduce the chances of vulnerable groups falling through the cracks of humanitarian protection? The project contributes: an interdisciplinary perspective on the practical and ethical implications of data-driven humanitarian targeting in sub-Saharan Africa; an operationally-driven analysis of the efficacy of data-driven humanitarian protection in contexts of conflict and displacement; a qualitative assessment of the impacts of the production and use of large-scale data for at-risk populations; and methodological insights regarding the utility of mixed methods approaches for the analysis of large-scale data. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET South of Sahara, regional 61340 107471.19 57375.28 57375.28 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 57375.28 46131.15 61340.04 61340.0 226186.47 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-3E9D2V2 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY The number of armed conflicts around the world, as well as the number of parties fighting in these conflicts, has risen significantly between 2001 and 2016. We therefore need to better understand the key factors at the community level that promote restraint and de-escalation in violent environments. Former studies show the value of understanding how a culture of restraint is socialised within a community. However, not much is known about the role that communities play in influencing the behaviour of armed groups. Current approaches to humanitarian protection are rooted in formalised legalistic approaches. However, these approaches have limits in contexts where global humanitarian norms are contested or ignored on the ground. A new bottom-up approach to humanitarian protection is needed and this research seeks to identify successful examples of local protection measures and generate methods for communicating these to similar communities experiencing violence and to aid agencies. This project will work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where human rights abuses are widespread, including extremely high levels of sexual violence. Whilst the resolution of the conflict on a national and regional level is clearly the long-term solution, in the meantime aid agencies, local religious institutions and civil society groups struggle to protect civilians. This research aims to provide new understandings and tools to both communities and aid providers to reinforce protective measures. By identifying where such local measures have worked, and under what circumstances, the research will provide an evidence base for policy and practice. Our consortium is formed of the Institute of Development Studies; two partner organisations in DRC - the Centre d'etude et de promotion en interventions socio-economiques (CEPRISE) and Institut National des Arts (INA); and Action Aid. We are ideally placed to undertake this research, bringing together deep experience of participatory methods, indigenous knowledge, gender and bottom-up approaches to humanitarianism, with storytelling through drama, music and literature. Through identifying, locating, documenting and understanding where local protective measures have worked; we aim to help aid agencies and policy makers find appropriate ways to support these efforts and possibly find ways to replicate them. Our objectives are: 1. To generate evidence on whether local, community-based protection measures work, and in what circumstances. 2. To generate evidence on whether local, community-based measures to prevent or reduce sexual violence work and in what circumstances. 3. To generate evidence on differing local and community-based attitudes to victims of sexual violence, and under what circumstances these allow for rehabilitation. 4. To develop innovative local communication methods for transferring knowledge of successful protective measures. 5. To generate programmatic lessons for aid agencies so that they can adapt protection programmes to support local measures. 6. To generate policy lessons for aid agencies such that systemic approaches to protection can incorporate and support local action. This research aims to have conceptual impact and provide new understandings and tools to both communities and aid providers to reinforce protective measures. By identifying where such local measures have worked, and under what circumstances, the research will provide an evidence base for policy and practice. Further, the research will have impact as it builds networks and connectivity; it will design, with communities, ways of communicating these successes so they can be adapted and replicated in other contexts. The project has a strong intellectual core, but also addresses an important policy and practical question, as the global humanitarian community have struggled to understand community level dynamics and factor them into their programmes. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Congo (the Democratic Republic of the) 65050 111180.70000000001 -4750.38 46131.15 65049.55 65050.0 176230.7 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-C4WCAGQ-R6SBCMZ-AYRNVWK DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY This project seeks to better understand the humanitarian impact of continued forcible transfer of the Bedouin communities living in E1, Jerusalem, and how impunity for violations of international law contributes to the deterioration of humanitarian vulnerabilities. Through qualitative enquiry, combining desk based research and first hand semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, the project will gather together a significant body of evidence to highlight to ongoing deleterious impact of repeated violations of IHL (and impunity for violations) on those living at the sharp edge of the situation in Israel-Palestine, namely the Bedouin communities of E1. In their 2017 report, Humanitarian Facts and Figures: Occupied Palestinian Territory, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted that forced displacement is listed as one of the four key drivers of humanitarian vulnerability. The report highlighted that, "between 2009 and 2016, Israeli authorities demolished or seized over 4,800 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank, mostly in Area C and East Jerusalem". It further indicated that "46 Palestinian Bedouin communities in the central West Bank, home to some 8,000 Palestinians, the majority registered Palestine refugees, have been targeted by the Israeli authorities for "relocation" to a number of designated sites". The expansion of Israeli settlements, considered illegal and condemned as a "flagrant violation under international law" by UN Security Council resolution 2334 of 2016, has been a driver for confiscation of Palestinian private and public land, demolition of homes (including Bedouin shacks) and repeated displacement of Palestinian civilians. The confiscation and demolition of property in Bedouin villages, and the ensuing forcible transfer/relocation of these vulnerable communities, is recognised as a violation of IHL and human rights by the UN, EU and other international actors. Forced displacement of civilians in an occupied territory is also considered a crime under International Criminal Law. The planned expansion of the 'Ma'ale Adumim' settlement block east of Jerusalem is exacerbating the humanitarian vulnerabilities of the Bedouin and herder communities in the E1 area. Bedouin communities such as those residing in Abu Al-Nuwwar, Wadi Abu Hindi, Al Khan Al-Ahmar, Jabal Al-Baba and Sath Al Bahar are at the front line of defence for resisting Israeli settlement expansion, thus ensuring Palestinian access to Jerusalem. This scenario does not just affect individual Bedouin villages at risk of demolition and transfer, but carries grave implications for the broader Israeli-Palestinian situation. Thus, Palestinian Bedouin at risk of forcible transfer have, unintentionally, become key players in the regional context, whilst simultaneously facing unique humanitarian vulnerabilities that must be better understood. A number of Israeli policies and practices in those areas, including a restrictive permit and planning regime, demolitions and threats of demolitions of property and the active promotion of relocation plans all contribute to the coercive environment, "which generates pressure on Palestinians to leave their communities". In the Israeli-Palestinian context, impunity for violations of international law, including IHL, has been recognised as a "driver of conflict". In espousing the benefits of holding violators of IHL to account, it has been noted that, "effective accountability not only ensures that perpetrators are brought to justice, but also ensures that victims have access to remedies and serves to deter future violations and to try to repair the harm suffered." As such, it is vital to understand the impact of violations of IHL on the Bedouin and herder communities in Palestine, and engage with the ICC's work. This project will work fill this gap, and produce an edited book and policy report. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestinian territory) 56271 111586.82 113454.48 113454.48 9184.22 46131.15 56271.45 56271.0 281312.32 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-HGVP8C6-6AM4G9F-34SETFL DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY How can conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes come to terms with the past [Vergangenheitsbewältigung], given historical contexts of extreme social exclusion and marginalisation? How can key biodiversity areas whose global value rests on ahistorical ideas of Nature resist an uncritical presentism, to be better understood as entangled with diverse human histories and values? How can conservation policy and practice recognise deep cultural and linguistic differences around 'the nature of nature'? Our research responds to these questions through a cross-disciplinary humanities programme analysing dynamic dimensions of conservation territories in the Kunene Region of the former German colony that is now Namibia. Kunene's Etosha National Park and neighbouring beyond-Etosha conservation designations are home to diverse indigenous and marginalised peoples. Our research team of three women academics in Germany, the UK and Namibia has a combined 50+ years of ethnographic, archival, oral history and livelihoods enquiry in Etosha-Kunene. We propose a new collaborative three-year programme of six intersecting work packages (WPs): WP1 on 'Historicising Socio-ecological Policy in Etosha-Kunene' offers a detailed discourse analysis and history of public conservation policy affecting natures and peoples associated with the region, interrogating shifting influences, interests and governance technologies; WP2 on 'Comparative Indigenous Perspectives' assembles our long-term research in the region into a new comparative analysis of indigenous Khoe, San and Himba-Herero understandings of natures-beyond-the-human, drawing on current theories in the anthropology of nature; WP3 on 'Making Identity and Indigeneity in Etosha-Kunene' explores how indigenous identities are made, focusing especially on how distinct and intersecting 'Khoe' and 'San' identities have been present(ed) in ethnographic, linguistic, conservation and legal discourse; WP4 on 'Spatialising Coloniality in Etosha-Kunene' (re)traces the thought and practices of selected colonial European actors from the mid-1800s, bringing their written narratives into conversation with indigenous interlocutors inhabiting the same places and spaces (see WP2); WP5 on 'Collecting, Curating and Returning Etosha-Kunene Natures' investigates how the natures of Etosha-Kunene have been both represented and shaped by natural history collections of specimen-artefacts assembled by the (mostly male) European actors we study in WP4; WP6 focuses on public engagements, via a mobile exhibition, a website, and a series of workshops sharing and further exploring issues arising in WPs 1-5. In sum, we offer a multivocal and radically historicised analysis of Etosha-Kunene that contributes new thinking on coloniality, indigeneity and 'natural history'. Our aim is to support conservation laws and praxis to more fully recognise the diversity of pasts, cultures and natures constituting this internationally-valued region. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL BATH SPA UNIVERSITY Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Namibia 73010 58642.02 58642.02 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 58642.02 73010.0 131652.02 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-HGVP8C6-6AM4G9F-GT2MMTG DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Contemporary armed conflicts have become protracted, complex and urbanised with far-reaching socio-economic consequences, such as severe damage to infrastructure, disruption of services, and protracted displacement. The dire socio-economic dimensions of protracted conflicts, as well as the link between poverty and fragility, render the traditional divide between humanitarian and development assistance unfeasible to address the short- and long-term needs of affected communities. The proposed project will provide a comprehensive analysis of the institutional and substantive legal frameworks within which humanitarian and development assistance are delivered. Its aim is to investigate the extent to which international law enables integrated, sustainable and accountable humanitarian and development assistance in contexts of protracted conflicts. The project will deliver on its aim through three closely connected work packages (WP) that focus on institutions, legal regimes and accountability, respectively. WP 1 charts the multitude of humanitarian and development actors operating in contexts of protracted conflicts and examines whether their mandates, principles, legal relations, and institutional structures are amenable to the creation of a humanitarian-development nexus. WP 2 focuses on the interactions between legal regimes applicable to protracted conflicts, with a view to evaluating whether international law contributes to the creation of the divide between the two sectors or can in fact provide legal common grounds to overcome the divide between them. Lastly, WP 3 assesses the need for new standards and mechanisms to ensure the inclusion of and accountability to affected communities in light of the expanding and interconnected nature of humanitarian and development responses. The project will be the first to approach the divide between humanitarian and development assistance comprehensively from an international law perspective. Moreover, it will clarify the laws that pertain to the underexplored, socio-economic dimensions of protracted conflicts. Therefore, the project will make fundamental advances in the field of international law, as well as the multidisciplinary fields of humanitarianism, development, transitional justice, and peacebuilding. More broadly, the research findings of the project will contribute to some of the fundamental debates in international law, for example, on the evolution of international (humanitarian) law in face of the changing characteristics of armed conflicts, regime interactions and fragmentation of international law, and the expanding role and authority of non-state actors, particularly international organisations, in global governance. Beyond its contributions to scholarship, the project will develop legal and policy recommendations for the interpretation and design of international law and thus engage in knowledge transfer for international cooperation towards the operationalisation of the humanitarian-development nexus. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Developing Countries, Unspecified 30119.97 112313.44 112313.44 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 112313.44 10039.99 10039.99 10039.99 142433.37 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-27ERRBQ-627L2RS-XU3KCJC DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Following the violent Liberation War of 1971 in which Bangladesh declared independence from Pakistan, there was a wave of migration from Bangladesh to the more economically stable Pakistan. Often settling in Sindh province, particularly Karachi, these Bengali migrants have participated widely in the Pakistani economy. Many have been refused citizenship rights in line with the Pakistan Citizenship Act of 1951 and despite their Pakistan-born children and grandchildren having little direct knowledge of Bangladesh, they remain without official documentation. This can create challenges in everyday activities (around education, employment and health) and strengthen the idea that they are not 'true' Pakistani citizens as emphasised by a wider state narrative. Recently, with the arrival of a newly elected government, momentum has been building towards granting the community full rights. Moreover, with the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's creation in 2021 drawing ever closer, our project comes at a critical time. Our research takes place in 3 phases and overall, we aim to investigate how the identities and contributions of these Bengali migrants are understood within the community, and how they have they been understood by a wider Pakistani state narrative since 1971. Furthermore, we aim to understand how these two accounts influence each other. No existing record of this group exists. By co-producing a new history of identity, activism, migration memory and belonging with our interviewees and arts partners, we will ensure that the voices of Pakistani Bengalis are recorded and heard. Our sample will be diverse including Pakistani Bengali men, women and young people of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our project will: - transform academic and public understandings of how lack of citizenship influences social identity and sense of belonging, and stimulates resistance, among Bengalis in Pakistan, particularly in young people. This will be through creating written and aural records from this group, accessible for anyone to read or listen to. - expand understandings of how social representations of minority groups can influence their treatment and social positioning in the developing world - enhance awareness of the Pakistani Bengali minority group in terms of its cultural heritage and socio-economic contribution to Pakistan through the range of project outputs The project will be conducted with a series of partners based in the UK and Pakistan. These include: UCL, Where the PI is based, Lahore University of Management Science, where the Co-I is based, the Citizens Archive of Pakistan, National College of Arts, Lahore Students Union and Pakistan Institute for Education and Labour Research. Our partners will be involved to differing degrees in the 3 research phases. In Phase 1 we will conduct a strategic search through historical, policy and media documents for depiction of the community. This will inform the interview and archival elicitation work in Phases 2 and 3. It will also give information on wider state and media representation of this group. Phase 2 will involve oral history interviews and archival elicitation with 48 adults and 30 young people. We will also conduct art workshops with young people. Here we will gather information on community representation of self. In Phase 3, artists and musicians will re-imagine both state representation and also community representations to produce new outputs based on the community. By the end of the project, we will have created and developed a new oral history archive, art and music based on the research, a documentary, a website, online exhibition, museum exhibition, two output events, media articles, 3 journal articles and co-edited book. Most importantly, we will advance the field by generating important new knowledge regarding the Bengali community in Pakistan following their migration in 1971 and ensure that their stories are told and voices are heard. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Pakistan 126042.10999999999 40894.12 20447.06 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 20447.04 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 20447.06 20447.06 20447.06 32486.43 36554.31 36554.31 187383.27 GB-GOV-13-OODA-AHRC-27ERRBQ-B8JF32C-LBJWER8 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY I fear we [peacebuilders] see ourselves to be - and have therefore become - more technicians than artists. By virtue of this shift of perception our approaches have become too cookie-cutter-like, too reliant on what proper technique suggests as a frame of reference, and as a result our processes are too rigid and fragile. J.P. Lederach, Peace Scholar. International interventions aimed at building peace in conflict and post-conflict societies have a rather negative track-record in achieving their objectives. One of the main explanations for this is the apparent inability of international actors to reach out and connect with local communities and leaders who are key in transforming societies and enabling a lasting peace. In recent years, arts based approaches to peacebuilding have gained traction as an emerging area of research and practice typified by the work of Cynthia Cohen at Brandeis University and programmes delivered by NGOs Search for Common Ground and In Place of War and countless community projects. Despite these advances, arts based approaches to peacebuilding as an area of study and practice remains under researched. In particular, there is a deficit in understanding the impact community devised and led arts projects can have on peace formation at various stages of conflict amongst diverse actors. Thus, this project investigates the potential of grassroots led and devised arts projects in undertaking a key role in how peace emerges within a country and stresses the agency of local people to change their society. We aim to determine how arts can positively contribute to peace; this project builds a community of practice between academics, artists, practitioners and policy-actors to explore the transformative power of the creative arts in the context of conflict and peace. Creating an evidence-base around the impact of arts can shape new policies and NGO programming to improve the life of people in conflict-affected societies. To this end, we will develop a methodology to assess the impact of arts-based peace projects and their legacies. The project's starting point is the simple notion that the nexus of aesthetic, cultural, and social engagement can be powerful and offers an 'undercommons' upon which to build peace. The project distinguishes between contexts of 'war', 'diffuse war', 'transitions from war to peace' and 'post-war' contexts to investigate the role that performative arts can play in each of these conflict stages. We will rely on the case studies of Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Colombia and Bosnia-Herzegovina to analyse the complex interplay of the arts and war. Comparing and contrasting these case studies in terms of where the arts are situated, who runs the arts projects and how they work best as a partner of peace formation, the project asks: 1. What role can grassroots arts play in different types and stages of war? 2. Based on these insights, under what conditions can the creative arts and peace formation processes be best integrated with each other? 3. How can we understand the extent to which creative arts projects help external or internal norms of peace to be adopted on a broader social level, or do they highlight local norms? The project will be run by the University of Manchester, Durham University, and In Place of War with the support of several local researchers and artists, combining insights from the field of academia with local arts practitioners on the ground. Project leads will form a partnership with local organisations and actors in each of the case countries to conduct the research and devise a toolkit for grassroots and NGO practitioners on the one hand, but also to co-produce art productions on the other. The latter include exhibitions, an audio archive, community performances and web-based content, all of which will be accessible to the communities in the countries themselves as well as to UK audiences. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges. DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy General enquiries enquiries@odamanagement.org https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-official-development-assistance-research-and-innovation Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 4th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Developing Countries, unspecified 49639.04 49639.08 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 49639.08 DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY -13396.01 49639.04 99278.12