Dealing With Sri Lanka’s Demons: Using Documentary Film for Peacebuilding

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Peacebuilding and Development Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI:10.1177/1542316620985756

Nilanjana Premaratna

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Abstract

Documentary film is a popular resource amongst peacebuilding organisations and practitioners. Despite this popularity, research on documentary film is still emerging in peace and conflict studies. This article explores documentary film’s role in the study and practice of peacebuilding by examining the documentary Demons in Paradise and its engagement with issues of peace and conflict in post-war Sri Lanka. This article makes conceptual, methodological, and empirical contributions. Drawing from empirical research, I identify and discuss documentary film’s engagement along three analytical angles: documentary film as a text, within social processes, and within research processes. Under each angle, I explore how empirical observations and understanding of peace emerge through the visual, using diverse methods and data, including interviews, participant observation, visual elicitation in post-screening focus groups, and film analysis. I conclude that documentary film can contribute to the study and practice of peacebuilding by offering multiple analytical angles that elucidate plural, disparate understandings of peace in post-war societies.

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处理斯里兰卡的恶魔:用纪录片建设和平

纪录片在建设和平组织和从业者中是一种受欢迎的资源。尽管如此，在和平与冲突研究中，对纪录片的研究仍在兴起。本文通过考察纪录片《天堂中的恶魔》及其与战后斯里兰卡和平与冲突问题的关系，探讨了纪录片在和平建设的研究和实践中的作用。本文在概念上、方法上和经验上都有所贡献。根据实证研究，我从三个分析角度确定并讨论了纪录片的参与:纪录片作为一种文本，在社会过程中，在研究过程中。在每一个角度下，我使用不同的方法和数据，包括访谈、参与者观察、放映后焦点小组的视觉启发和电影分析，探索经验观察和对和平的理解是如何通过视觉出现的。我的结论是，纪录片可以通过提供多种分析角度来阐明战后社会对和平的多元、不同的理解，从而有助于建设和平的研究和实践。

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Journal of Peacebuilding and Development Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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