Full Description
Researching violence and conflict can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including security risks to researchers and informants, restricted or lack of access to informants and field sites, and poor reliability of official data. Traditional methodological approaches may need to be adapted, and new methods may be called for. In addition, such research carries ethical challenges about representation of informants and information and possible use of the research for harmful ends. This book, drawing on research conducted throughout Africa in conflict zones and other insecure environments, considers the everyday dilemmas researchers face. It provides essential contributions to ongoing challenging debates about the use of alternative and mixed methods in social science research.
Contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ............................................................................ vii
Navigating the Terrain of Methods and Ethics in Conflict Research ..... 1
Johan Pottier, Laura Hammond and Christopher Cramer
Researching Conflict in Africa: A Researcher's Account of Ife-Modakeke, South-Western Nigeria ...... 23
Olajide O. Akanji
Researching Children and Violence in Evolving Socio-Political Contexts ...... 39
Giorgia Doná
Four Layers of Silence: Counterinsurgency in Northeastern Ethiopia ... 61
Laura Hammond
Uncertain Ethics: Researching Civil War in Sudan ..................... 79
Sharon E. Hutchinson
'From Nation to Family': Researching Gender and Sexuality ..... 95
Danai Mupotsa
Cooperative Ethics as a New Model for Cultural Research on Peace and Security ... 111
Derek B. Miller and Ron Scollon
Hidden Agendas in Conflict Research: Informants' Interests and Research Objectivity in the Niger Delta ... 137
Ukoha Ukiwo
Silence and authoritative speech in post-violence northern Ghana .. 155
Martijn Wienia
List of Contributors ........................................................................... 175
Index .................................................................................................... 1
