Overview
- Provides an extensive account of how people do conflict research in difficult contexts
- Boasts a diverse range of scholars, researched cases, and research processes
- Critically evaluates what it means to do research in the field, and what the role of the researcher is in that context
- Proves itself to be an invaluable guide for students, scholars and others interested in conflict research
Part of the book series: Peace Psychology Book Series (PPBS)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Research Team
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Research Population
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Practical Applications
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Reflections and Meta-Reflections
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Keywords
- Data collection with indigenous people
- Fieldwork experiences from Chile
- Research with refugees of conflict
- Young people’s identity and attitudes in divided society
- Studying peace in conflict zones
- Peace research methods to study conflicts in China
- Being an insider and outsider studying diaspora
- Decolonizing research in the Palestinian colonial context
- How research findings might put scholars into danger
- Collective victimhood in the Indian subcontinent
- Implementing Social Psychological Interventions
- Conducting field research in Colombia
- Embedding yourself in protest contexts
- Working with an interpreter when researching in conflict
- Collective action towards racial justice
- Challenges and promises of RCTs in conflict environments
- Peacebuilding through reflexive praxis
About this book
This edited volume offers useful resources for researchers conducting fieldwork in various global conflict contexts, bringing together a range of international voices to relay important methodological challenges and opportunities from their experiences. The book provides an extensive account of how people do conflict research in difficult contexts, critically evaluating what it means to do research in the field and what the role of the researcher is in that context.
Among the topics discussed:- Conceptualizing the interpreter in field interviews in post-conflict settings
- Data collection with indigenous people
- Challenges to implementation of social psychological interventions
- Researching children and young people’s identity and social attitudes
- Insider and outsider dynamics when doing research in difficult contexts
- Working with practitioners and local organizations
Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field is a valuable guide for students and scholars interested in conflict research, social psychologists, and peace psychologists engaged in conflict-related fieldwork.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Dundee. Her research focuses on collective action, political protest and its consequences, political solidarity, politicization, and intergroup conflict.
Sigrun Marie Moss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. She has lived and worked in Sudan and Zanzibar, before doing research in both East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Her research focuses on political leadership, national identity strategies, collective action, gender equality, gendered diplomacy and intergroup conflict.
Özden Melis Uluğ is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark University. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2019. She received her PhD in Psychology from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany in 2016. Her areas of research interestinclude intergroup conflict, intergroup contact, collective action, and solidarity between groups.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field
Book Subtitle: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
Editors: Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Sigrun Marie Moss, Özden Melis Uluğ
Series Title: Peace Psychology Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44113-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44112-8Published: 30 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44115-9Published: 30 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44113-5Published: 29 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2197-5779
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5787
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 383
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Peace Studies, Conflict Studies