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A community dedicated to exchanging ideas and experiences about field research and ethics in conflict, post-conflict, authoritarian, and other difficult fieldwork settings, including contexts of systemic and symbolic violence.
Peter Locke, 2008, Ethical Dilemmas of Fieldwork in Post-War Sarajevo Civil Society, Princeton University (Northwestern University). This paper considers how foreign researchers are implicated in the neglect of the researched person’s needs, and a kind of foreign voyeurism into their suffering.
Shelly Whitman, 2011, The Challenges of Doing Research on Child Soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dalhousie University. This paper analyzes difficulties in researching in the DRC, the practical political barriers and the lack of record keeping, as well as the emotional experience of meeting child soldiers and addresses the question of emotion in research.