Legal, ethical and moral issues in researching conflict, violence and peace

随着现代晚期有组织暴力的增加，对危险环境中的暴力与和平的研究越来越频繁。这不仅适用于从冲突中崛起的过渡社会，也适用于正在经历与紧缩有关的骚乱的稳定民主国家。对这类研究的日益关注伴随着两个进一步的发展：英国社会科学界对社会研究中管理风险的重要性的日益认识，以及构建研究行为的新的、更严格的监管框架的出现。因此，我们提出的高级培训是为了满足对冲突、暴力与和平研究的法律、伦理和道德影响以及在日益危险和敏感的地点进行的研究的更专业培训的日益增长的需求。为了满足这些培训需求，它通过教育新一代研究人员研究冲突、暴力与和平所必需的技能来建设英国社会科学的能力。这门课程不仅提高了人们对新的监管框架的认识，还提高了人们对这类研究中涉及的更广泛的伦理、法律和道德问题的认识。此次竞标利用了女王大学法学院和新成立的冲突转化与社会正义研究所（ISCTSJ）的技能和专业知识，从跨学科的角度直接解决冲突与和平问题。女王大学以其对暴力、冲突与和平的研究的深度和国际质量而闻名于世，并且在处理从事这类研究所涉及的问题和问题方面有着长期的经验。这使得该课程在全国处于领先地位。在此次竞标中提供学术领导的John Brewer （ISCTSJ）和Pete Shirlow （Law）是该领域的国际知名人士，他们过去曾合作过，在方法论和实务方面具有互补的专长。他们将与一些早期职业研究人员和教师一起加入，这进一步加强了该应用程序的能力建设维度。该课程受益于参与其中的工作人员的生活经验，他们既是长期在课堂上处理这些问题的教师，也是研究人员。这门课程将以真实的经验和例子为基础，将是多学科和比较的，从不同的学科角度借鉴在几个不同国家的研究经验。这包括对施暴者群体和受害者的研究，因此教学团队在研究冲突及其后果的实践、法律和伦理困难方面具有丰富的经验，这将丰富教学。该课程将涉及在危险和敏感地区研究冲突、暴力与和平的法律、伦理和道德问题。它关注的问题包括：对研究人员和应答者的风险和危险的管理；进行敏感研究时遇到的特殊问题；在危险环境下的实地性别和身份管理问题；道德和法律实践的最新发展以及新的监管行为守则；关于知情同意和保密承诺的法律约束的问题；数据收集中的风险管理；处理被调查者的“犯罪知识”问题；以及传播和出版中涉及的法律和道德问题。这得益于Queen在敏感和危险研究领域以及研究的法律行为方面的专业知识。每门课程为期一天，每年在冬季（12月）和夏季（7月）开设两门课程。申请是为了支付三年每年两门课程的费用，总共六门课程。

As organised violence increases in late modernity, research on violence and peace in dangerous settings is being undertaken with ever more frequency. This is the case not only with respect to transitional societies emerging out of conflict but also stable democracies that are experiencing austerity-related riots. The increased attention on this kind of research is coupled with two further developments: a growing awareness in British social science of the importance of managing risk in social research, and the emergence of new, more rigorous regulatory frameworks to structure the conduct of research. The advanced training we propose therefore responds to an increasing need for more specialised training in the legal, ethical and moral implications of research on conflict, violence and peace, and of research which is conducted in increasingly dangerous and sensitive locations. In meeting these training needs it builds capacity in British social science by educating new generations of researchers in the skills necessary for researching conflict, violence and peace. The course raises awareness not just of new regulatory frameworks but of broader ethical, legal and moral problems involved in this kind of research. The bid draws on the skills and expertise of the School of Law at Queen's University and the new Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice (ISCTSJ), which directly addresses conflict and peace from an inter-disciplinary perspective. Queen's University is world renowned for the depth of its experience and the international quality of its research on violence, conflict and peace, and has had long experience in dealing with the issues and problems involved in undertaking research of this kind. This makes the course nationally leading. The personnel providing academic leadership in the bid - John Brewer (ISCTSJ) and Pete Shirlow (Law) - are international figures in this field, they have collaborated in the past and have complementary methodological and substantive expertise. They will be joined by a number of early career researchers and teachers, which further reinforces the capacity building dimensions of this application. The course has the benefit of the lived experience of the staff involved, both as teachers in dealing with these issues in the classroom for a very long time, but also as researchers. The course will be based on real-life experience and examples, and will be multi-disciplinary and comparative, drawing on the experience of researching in several different countries from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. This includes research on perpetrator groups and victims, so the teaching team has a wealth of experience in negotiating the practical, legal and ethical difficulties in researching conflict and its aftermath, which will enrich the teaching. The course will deal with the legal, ethical and moral issues around studying conflict, violence and peace in dangerous and sensitive locations. Its concerns include the following: the management of risk and danger, both to researchers and respondents; the special problems posed when undertaking sensitive research; issues around the management of gender and identity in the field in dangerous settings; recent developments in ethical and legal practice and the new regulatory codes of conduct; problems around the legal constraints operating on informed consent and promises of confidentiality; the management of risk in data collection; dealing with the problem of what is called respondents' "guilty knowledge"; and the legal and ethical issues involved in dissemination and publication. This draws on Queen's expertise in the field of sensitive and dangerous research and in the legal conduct of research. Each course will last one day and two courses will be offered each year, in Winter (December) and Summer (July). The application is to cover the costs of two courses per year for three years, a total of six courses in all.