Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field

Yasemin Gülsüm Acar is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Dundee. Her research focuses on collective action, political protest and its consequences, political solidarity, politicization, and intergroup conflict.Sigrun Marie Moss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. She has lived and worked in Sudan and Zanzibar, before doing research in both East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Her research focuses on political leadership, national identity strategies, collective action, gender equality, gendered diplomacy and intergroup conflict.Özden Melis Uluğ is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark University. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2019. She received her PhD in Psychology from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany in 2016. Her areas of research interestinclude intergroup conflict, intergroup contact, collective action, and solidarity between groups.

• 1. Research Team.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Conducting field research amid violence: Experiences from Colombia.- 3. Keepers of local know-how in conflict: Conversations between research assistant and researcher.- 4. Conceptualizing the interpreter in field interviews in post-conflict settings: Reflections from psychological research in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- 5. Doing research on Turkish-Armenian relations in Turkey, Armenia, and Diaspora as Turkish researchers: The challenges and opportunities of being an insider and outsider.- 6. Confronting Conflicting Attitudes about Racial Bias in the United States: How Communicator Identities Shape Audience Reception.- 2. Research Population.- 7. Data collection with indigenous people: Fieldwork experiences from Chile.- 8. On the borders: Research with refugees of conflict.- 9. Keeping the trust – challenges in embedding yourself in protest contexts.- 10. Conducting Field Researchon Collective Victimhood in the Indian Subcontinent.- 11. Kurdish Alevis in the Turkish-Kurdish peace process: Reflections on conducting research in Turkey’s “buffer zone”.- 3. Practical Applications.- 12. Implementing Social Psychological Interventions: Challenges and Opportunities.- 13. Sense and Sensitivities: Researching children and young people’s identity and social attitudes in a divided society.- 14. The challenges and promises of using RCTs in conflict environments.- 4. Reflections and Meta-reflections.- 15. When research and experience merge: A reflexive assessment on studying peace in conflict zones.- 16. A reflection on the politics of knowledge production at South African universities: When black identity meets legacies of institutional racism.- 17. Being a wanderer, stranger, public enemy and a "useful idiot": A few personal remarks on performing and communicating psychological research in conflicted areas.- 18. Recovering the everyday in peacebuilding through reflexive praxis: An epistemic and methodological intervention.- 19. Concluding Remarks.