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Methodologies in Peace Research. 21 - 23 March, 2007
CPS Conference Papers
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Tromsø Papers
Centre for Peace Studies at the University of Tromsø hereby presents Working Papers No 10.
The conference Methodologies in Peace Research was organised in Tromsø from 21 to 23 March 2007 in cooperation between Centre for Peace Studies (CPS), University of Tromsø, Norway and Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), University of Tampere, Finland. The conference addressed the critical and timely issue of research methodologies in peace and conflict studies, including empirical and ethical aspects of research into peace, conflict and division, widely defined.
Despite the substantial body of literature on research methods and the high level of interest and activity in peace research, little attention has been explicitly devoted to research methodologies in peace research. There are relatively few easily accessible or available academic works, journal articles or textbooks which deal specifically with the methodological, empirical, ethical and safety-related challenges of carrying out research into areas of tension and stress or into post-conflict and divided societies.
A key objective of the conference was thus to explore methodologies in the context of actual research projects from a range of substantive topics. The conference discussed the possibility of an overarching approach to peace research which may transcend fixed disciplinary thinking. The linking of methodology to peace research provided a meaningful opportunity for reflecting on important and relevant issues encountered during the entire research process, from outset to completion. These lines of discussion were sorted under three main headings:
Methodological issues
Ethical dimensions of peace research
Research in dangerous places
The conference had 35 participants and presented two keynote speakers – Stein Tønnesson and Dermot Feenan (ref. the conference programme on the next page). 21 papers were presented and discussed, out of which 18 are included in this volume. As most papers refer to ongoing work, the reader is advised to contact the author in question for possibly revised versions or updates if s/he wishes to quote from any of the contributions (the author's email address is included in the footer on the first page of each paper).
Tromsø, November 2007.
Editor:
Lodve A. Svare
Executive Officer
Centre for Peace Studies
Address:
Centre for Peace Studies
University of Tromsø
N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
http://uit.no/cps
Tromsø, January, 2008.
CPS Working Papers:
No 1 Three articles by Johan Galtung:
What is Peace Studies?
The Epistemology and Methodology of Peace Studies. Constructing a Daoist Social Science Epistemology
No 2 Arne Kommisrud:
State-building, Nationalities, and Conflict Dynamics in the Soviet and Habsburg Empires. A Rokkanian Approach.
No 3 Johan Galtung:
Toward Peaceful Worlds - A Guide to Peace
No 4 Stein Tønneson:
A ‘Global Civil War’
No 5 Bjørg Berg:
Paying for Peace: Is it a Human Right?
No 6 Sri Lanka 2003
No 7 Christine Schweitzer:
Nonviolent Intervention
No 8 Conference Papers. “New Directions in Peace and Conflict Research. Non-violent Strategies for Confronting Global Terrorism and for Promoting
Peaceful Social Change”. September 7-9, 2005. University of Tromsø.
No 9 Conference Papers. "Peace and Place: A Spymposium Exploring Peace in the Home, Community and the Urban Environment". April 5-7, 2006.
University of Tromsø
No 10 Conference Papers. "Methodologies in Peace Research: A Conference Exploring Methodological, Empirical, and Ethical Aspects of Research into Peace, Conflict and Division". March 21-23, 2007.
University of Tromsø
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