The Safety of Strangers: The Realities and Politics of Protecting Civilians in Times of War

IF 2.2 3区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Naomi Pendle, Tom Kirk
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Abstract

Recent wars have brutally shown that civilians are not safe. This is despite high-level global commitments and multi-billion-dollar humanitarian spending to keep civilian strangers protected. The high civilian death tolls in recent armed conflicts are prompting new questions about how and if we can protect civilians in times of war, and what the real politics of such protection is. In this special section and its introduction, we argue that it is essential to pay attention to civilians' actual experiences of protection and their own strategies for staying safe. Normative schemes, including those that seek to offer safety to strangers, are always contested and negotiated and are always bound up in claims for legitimacy, power and public authority. We argue that it is in civilians' quotidian experiences of staying safe that we can best see and understand the local, national and international politics of civilian protection, as well as the forms of safety that are prioritised by civilians themselves. To do this, the special section draws together qualitative, ethnographic and ethnomusicological research in Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda to shed light on how the international community can keep civilians safe.

最近的战争残酷地表明,平民并不安全。尽管全球高层承诺并投入数十亿美元的人道主义资金来保护平民。在最近的武装冲突中,平民死亡人数居高不下,这引发了新的问题,即我们如何以及能否在战时保护平民,以及这种保护的真正政治意义何在。在本特别章节及其导言中,我们认为必须关注平民的实际保护经历及其自身的安全策略。规范性方案,包括那些寻求为陌生人提供安全的方案,总是受到争议和协商,总是与对合法性、权力和公共权威的诉求联系在一起。我们认为,正是在平民保持安全的日常经验中,我们才能更好地看到和理解地方、国家和国际的平民保护政治,以及平民自身优先考虑的安全形式。为此,本专栏汇集了在苏丹、南苏丹和乌干达进行的定性、人种学和人种音乐学研究,以揭示国际社会如何保护平民的安全。
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