PMP Sri Lanka - Pilots 1 & 2 - Political participation 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，下称PMP）于2014年立项，项目周期为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旨在记录此类过往冲突相关记忆的多元面貌，探究战争叙事如何被官方化或逐步湮没的过程，并支持在受冲突蹂躏的社会中开展集体记忆（collective memories）研究的本土研究者。该项目汇聚了来自布隆迪、斯里兰卡、巴勒斯坦、瑞士及其他地区的不同学科背景的国际研究者，他们共同围绕一个核心研究问题展开探索：留存多元鲜活的记忆，能否让社区在面对明日战争煽动者利用昨日创伤时更具韧性？PMP的数据类型丰富多样。其一，项目开展了约180余场半指导性访谈，均由PMP本土研究员实地开展，且严格遵循统一的主题框架与研究方法。多数访谈随后被转录、匿名化处理，并译为英文后建档留存。在斯里兰卡与巴勒斯坦，项目还通过两场实地定量调查（含2场预调查）收集数据，研究团队特别注重选取能够反映记忆多样性的代表性样本。最后，PMP在布隆迪开展了2项网络调查，聚焦布隆迪侨民——即居住或曾居住在布隆迪境外的布隆迪籍人士。目前，PMP收集的大部分匿名化数据已在此平台公开，其使用需遵循不同的许可协议，具体许可类型取决于数据敏感程度与参与者的知情同意等级。实际上，在部分场景或用于特定用途时，多数PMP数据仍可能具有敏感性。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。