Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research

ISBN-13: 9780367730888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 128 str.

Gearoid Millar

Opis

This book explores the application of the EPR approach in post-conflict and conflict-affected societies around the world, providing new insights into the benefits, challenges, and ethics of the emerging EPR agenda. It was originally published as a special issue of International Peacekeeping.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research: Exploring an Approach  2. Visiting the Tiger Zone – Methodological, Conceptual and Ethical Challenges of Ethnographic Research on Perpetrators  3. With Soymilk to the Khmer Rouge: Challenges of Researching Ex-combatants in Post-war Contexts  4. Ethnographic Peace Research: The Underappreciated Benefits of Long-term Fieldwork  5. Suspicion and Ethnographic Peace Research (Notes from a Local Researcher)  6. Critiquing Anthropological Imagination in Peace and Conflict Studies: From Empiricist Positivism to a Dialogical Approach in Ethnographic Peace Research

 

O autorze

Gearoid Millar is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He studies the local experiences of international interventions for peace, justice, and development in post-conflict societies. He has developed the Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR) approach through his research projects on Transitional Justice, Peacebuilding, and Development in Sierra Leone.