Ethnographic Peace Research: Approaches and Tensions
In: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
Intro -- Preamble -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Key Strengths of Ethnographic Peace Research -- Key Strengths of an EPR Approach -- Thick Description -- Explaining "Why" and Understanding "How" -- Reflexivity -- Collaborative or Emancipatory Research -- A Diversity of Methods Within a Flexible Approach -- Progressing the "Ethnographic Turn" -- Organization of the Volume -- References -- Chapter 2: Contextualizing Ethnographic Peace Research -- Introduction -- Going Beyond Ethnography as a Tool -- The Moluccan Case and the Implementation of EPR -- The Ambivalences of a Cultural Revival for Peace -- Conceptual Advancements in Peace Research -- Moving Anthropology to the Centre -- Concluding Reflections -- References -- Chapter 3: Feminist Ethnographic Research: Excavating Narratives of Wartime Rape -- Introduction -- Ethnographic Point of Departure-Feminist Methodologies and Gendered Narratives -- Narratives and Silences in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Emplaced Narratives in the Everyday -- "Gatekeepers" and Strategic Narratives -- Witness Statements at the ICTY -- Personal Testimonies -- The Women's Court in Sarajevo -- Summing Up -- References -- Chapter 4: Institutional Ethnography as Peace Research -- Introduction -- Peacebuilding -- Institutional Ethnography -- May Day in the Heart of the Beast -- Research Methodology Aligned to Pedagogy -- Insertion -- Descriptive Analysis -- Normative Analysis -- Action Planning -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The Impetus for Peace Studies to Make a Collaborative Turn: Towards Community Collaborative Research -- Introduction -- The "Local" Turn -- Decolonizing Methodology -- Community Collaboration in Practice -- The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- The Historical Marginalization of the Batwa4 of Rwanda