Asking about Violence: Improving Ethics in Violence Research

该项目将调查参与暴力问题研究对研究参与者和工作人员的影响。该项目的目标是在涉及询问暴力问题的研究中为道德决策提供信息和便利。该项目的成果将是编写一本最佳做法手册，其中将数据和实际建议结合起来，以便在对政治暴力进行研究时，尽量减少伤害，最大限度地增加参与者的利益。该项目将建立一个学者和从业人员网络，以促进各研究地点的道德做法，并为研究生建立一个关于政治暴力研究的道德考虑的培训模块。该项目将为研究人员、教育工作者、伦理学家、决策者以及公共和私人组织提供有用的资源，其目的是收集证据，为暴力问题数据收集方面的道德决策标准和最佳做法提供信息。 具体而言，该项目旨在：i）为受访者和采访者提供有关参与暴力研究的危害，好处和遗憾的可推广证据; ii）为跨学科研究人员和其他研究利益相关者制定新的指导，以了解如何就政治暴力研究的潜在成本和收益做出明智的决定。该项目将包括对询问暴力行为的现有证据进行系统审查，在面临政治暴力风险的不同社区进行多地点实地试验，以及对经常询问受访者暴力经历的访谈者进行调查。调查结果将用于编写一本关于暴力问题研究中道德操守的建议做法手册。该项目将对研究人员和利益相关者，如道德委员会和期刊编辑，评估并最大限度地提高社会和行为科学中暴力研究的效益。该项目由SBE和BIO董事会通过ER 2计划资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

This project will investigate the impact on research participants and staff of participating in research about violence. The goal of the project is to inform and facilitate ethical decision-making in research that involves asking about violence. The project will result in the development of a best-practices handbook that combines data and practical suggestions to minimize harm and maximize benefits for participants when conducting research on political violence. The project will build a network of scholars and practitioners for advancing ethical practices across research sites, as well as a training module for graduate students on ethical considerations for research on political violence. The project will yield a useful resource for researchers, educators, ethicists, policy makers, and public and private organizations.The aim of this project is to collect evidence to inform standards and best practices for ethical decision-making in data collection on the topic of violence. Specifically, the project aims to: i) generate generalizable evidence on the harms, benefits, and regret associated with participating in violence research for both respondents and interviewers; and ii) develop new guidance for researchers across disciplines and other research stakeholders for how to make informed decisions about the potential costs and benefits of research on political violence. The project will include a systematic review of the existing evidence on asking about violence, a multi-site field experiment in diverse communities at risk for political violence, and a survey of interviewers who routinely ask respondents about their experiences with violence. The findings will be used to create a handbook of recommended practices related to ethics in research on violence. The project will have implications for how researchers and stakeholders, such as ethics boards and journal editors, assess and maximize beneficence for violence research in the social and behavioral sciences.This project was funded through the ER2 program by the SBE and the BIO directorates.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.