The CPRD workshop opened the fall 2017 semester with a round table discussion on fieldwork in conflict-affected regions featuring Professor Jesse Driscoll (UCSD) and hosted by Professor Chris Fariss (UM-CPRD). With expertise in comparative state-building and civil war settlement dynamics, particularly in the South Caucasus and Central Asia, Professor Driscoll led a fascinating discussion about how to approach field work in conflict-affected areas, as well as about the challenges and opportunities inherent in the endeavor. What are the difficulties of doing this work? What kind of toll does it take on you as a scholar and human being? Is IRB sufficient to protect researchers as well as those being studied/interacted with? How can/should we talk about this topic when the discipline writ large tends not to? These were all discussed.
Below, please find links to two pieces Professor Driscoll circulated ahead of the round table.
Below, please find links to two pieces Professor Driscoll circulated ahead of the round table.
ethics_experiments.pdf |
spies_like_us.pdf |