1st Edition

Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research

Edited By Gearoid Millar Copyright 2019
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

While many have argued in the past decade that peace and conflict studies must engage more with local actors and communities, and scholars regularly describe the importance of local context and culture for building sustainable peace, there are substantial challenges methodologically to fulfilling this ‘local turn’. Many peace and conflict studies scholars are inexperienced with methods... Read more

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



 

Biography

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.