Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gearoid Millar, Gearoid (University of Aberdeen Millar
• Assisted by: Gearoid Millar (Editor), Millar Gearoid (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367730888
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73088-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Social research & statistics, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Social research and statistics