Conflict Field ResearchA 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.
Gaining Access
- Victor Asiedu, 2010, ‘Door knocking’ – A Useful Entry Tool in a Post-conflict Environment: A Critical Appraisal based on Empirical Research in Sierra Leone, University of York. This paper questions the effectiveness of current oral testimony collection methods in post-war environments because of the lack of trust from participants in such environments. It assesses the “door knocking” method to gain community trust.
- Christine Pagen, 2008, Implications of Associations Between INGOs and Academic Researchers- Reflections from Southern Sudan, Columbia University. This paper explores the ethical implications of academic researchers associating with INGOs in post-conflict environments.
- Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, 2008, Accessing Returnee Refugee Women in Post Conflict Liberia: Practical, Ethical, and Gender Considerations in Research, University of Ibadan (Babcock University). This paper identifies and analyzes certain practical problems, ethical dilemmas and gender factors that affect access to research participants, in this case returnee refugee women in Liberia, and the possible implications for research outcomes.