Research Ethics
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Clark, J. N. (2012). “Fieldwork and Its Ethical Challenges: Reflections from Research in Bosnia.” Human Rights Quarterly, 34(3), 823–39. [Link]
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Goodhand, J. (2000). “Research in Conflict Zones: Ethics and Accountability.” Forced Migration, 8(4), 12–15. [PDF]
Guillemin, M., & Gillam, L. (2004). “Ethics, Reflexivity, and ‘Ethically Important Moments’ in Research.” Qualitative Inquiry, 10(2), 261–280. [Link]
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Humphreys, M. (2014). “How to make field experiments more ethical.” Washington Post. November 2, 2014. [Link]
Jentzsch, C. (2018). “Intervention, Autonomy and Power in Polarised Societies.” In B. Browne & A. Rivas (Eds.), Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted. Policy Press. [Link] [PDF]
Kaplan, L., Kuhnt, J., & Steinert, J. I. (2020). “Do no harm? Field research in the Global South: Ethical Challenges Faced by Research Staff.” World Development, 127. [Link]
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Mackenzie, C., McDowell, C., and Pittaway, E. (2007). “Beyond ‘Do No Harm’: The Challenge of Constructing Ethical Relationships in Refugee Research.” Journal of Refugee Studies 20, no. 2: 299–319. [Link]
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Mitchell, A. (2013). ‘’Escaping the ‘Field Trap’: Exploitation and the Global Politics of Educational Fieldwork in ‘Conflict Zones.’’’ Third World Quarterly, 34(7), 1247–1264. [Link]
Monson, J. (2020). “Ethics of Transregional Research and the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Items. (Blog.) [Link]
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Nouwen, S. (2014). “‘As You Set out for Ithaka’: Practical, Epistemological, Ethical, and Existential Questions about Socio-Legal Empirical Research in Conflict.” Leiden Journal of International Law, 27(1), 227–260. [Link]
Paczynska, A., & Hirsch, S. F. (Eds.). (2019). Conflict Zone, Comfort Zone: Ethics, Pedagogy, and Effecting Change in Field-Based Courses. Ohio University Press. [Link]
Parkinson, S.E. (2015) “Towards an Ethics of Sight: Violence Scholarship and the Arab Uprisings.” LSE Middle East Center Blog, August 26, 2015. [Link]
Pittaway, E.; Bartolomei, L., & Hugman, R. (2010). ‘‘Stop Stealing Our Stories’: The Ethics of Research with Vulnerable Groups.” Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2(2), 229–251. [PDF]
Project on Middle East Political Science. (2014). POMEPS Studies 8: The Ethics of Research in the Middle East. Washington, DC: Project on Middle East Political Science [PDF]
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Thomson, S., Ansoms, A., & Murison, J. (Eds.). (2013). Emotional and Ethical Challenges for Field Research in Africa: The Story Behind the Findings. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Link]
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United Nations Population Fund. (2021). Reporting Tip Sheet on Digital Violence: A Practical Reference Guide for Journalists and Media. United Nations Population Fund: Resources. Retrieved November 28, 2021. [Link]
University of Edinburgh. (2020). Some Ethical Considerations When Rethinking Research Projects in Light of Covid-19 Situation. [PDF]
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Wackenhut, A. F. (2018). “Ethical Considerations and Dilemmas Before, During and After Fieldwork in Less-Democratic Contexts: some Reflections from Post-Uprising Egypt.” The American Sociologist, 49(2), 242-257. [PDF]
Wood, E. J. (2006). “The Ethical Challenges of Field Research in Conflict Zones.” Qualitative Sociology, 29(3), 373–86. [Link]
Wood, E.J. (2007). “Field Research During War: Ethical Dilemmas.” In New Perspectives in Political Ethnography, edited by Lauren Joseph, Matthew Mahler, and Javier Auyero, 205–23. New York, NY: Springer New York. [Link].
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