PMP Sri Lanka - Pilots 1 & 2 - Network module

The Pluralistic Memories Project (PMP) has been funded in 2014 for a period of 6 years. Through a mixed methodology, PMP gathered personal memories of events related to past conflicts that happened in Burundi, Palestine and Sri Lanka, three former colonies that have been struggling with violent civil conflicts. PMP aims to document the diversity of memories about these past conflicts, to examine the processes through which war narratives become official or fall into oblivion, and to support local researchers who study collective memories in conflict-torn societies. The project brings together Burundian, Sri Lankan, Palestinian, Swiss and other international researchers from different scientific disciplines who are guided by a common question: Can the preservation of a plurality of living memories make communities more resilient in face of the exploitation of yesterday’s trauma by tomorrow’s warmongers? PMP data is of multiple type. First, PMP conducted approximately 180+ semi-directive interviews. These interviews were done in the field by local PMP researchers that all shared a common thematic and methodology. Most of these interviews were then transcribed, anonymized, translated into english and documented. In Sri Lanka and Palestine, PMP also gathered data through two quantitative surveys (+ 2 pilots) that were conducted in the field. Particular attention was made to find representative samples that could reflect the diversity of memories. A last, PMP did 2 web surveys in Burundi, that were focused on the Burundian diaspora (so people of Burundi that live, or lived, outside Burundi). Most of the anonymized data that was gathered by PMP is now available here under various licenses (depending on the sensitiveness of the data and the level of consent of participants). Actually, most of PMP data could still be sensitive in some contexts or for some uses. This more sensitive data is only available after the acceptance of a research project proposed by the requester.

多元记忆项目（Pluralistic Memories Project, PMP）于2014年获批立项，执行周期为6年。该项目采用混合研究方法，收集了布隆迪、巴勒斯坦、斯里兰卡这三个曾深陷暴力内战的前殖民地的过往冲突相关个人记忆。
PMP旨在记录这些过往冲突记忆的多元样貌，考察战争叙事如何被官方化或逐渐陷入遗忘，并支持在冲突受创社会开展集体记忆研究的本土研究者。项目汇集了布隆迪、斯里兰卡、巴勒斯坦、瑞士及其他多国不同学科领域的研究者，他们共同围绕一个核心研究问题展开探索：留存多元鲜活的集体记忆，能否让社群在面对明日好战者借昨日创伤进行操弄之时更具韧性？
PMP的数据类型丰富多样。其一，项目开展了180余场半结构化访谈，均由本土PMP研究员实地完成，所有访谈均遵循统一的主题框架与研究方法。多数访谈已完成转录、匿名化处理，并译为英文归档。在斯里兰卡与巴勒斯坦，PMP还通过两次实地定量调查（含2次预调查）收集数据，研究团队格外注重选取能够反映记忆多样性的代表性样本。此外，PMP在布隆迪开展了两次针对布隆迪侨民（即居住或曾居住在布隆迪境外的布隆迪民众）的网络调查。
目前，PMP收集的多数匿名化数据已通过多种许可协议对外发布，许可类型取决于数据敏感程度与参与者的知情同意等级。事实上，多数PMP数据在部分场景或用于特定用途时仍可能具有敏感性，此类高敏感数据仅在申请者提交的研究项目获得审核通过后方可获取。