Traumatic histories: the ethics of research in conflict zones

John Hovhannisian 2017
The Times Higher Education Supplement

Academics investigating militarism and war must explore their own assumptions as well as those of their societies, event hears

June 28, 2017 
     
  • By Matthew Reisz

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Source: Reuters

Researching war and other traumatic historical events can raise many methodological, ethical and emotional issues for academics.

An event titled “War, Gender, Memory: Feminist Scholars in Conversation”, organised by the University of East London earlier this month, heard from four researchers about the dilemmas that they had faced and tried to overcome.