Understanding Peace Research (eBook, ePUB)

Methods and Challenges
Redaktion: Hoglund, Kristine; Oberg, Magnus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of different methods and sources of information-gathering for peace and conflict students and researchers, as well as the challenges presented by such work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136809132
• Artikelnr.: 38280199

Autorenporträt

Kristine Höglund is Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. She has a PhD in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University Sweden (2004). She is author of Peacemaking in the Shadow of Violence. Magnus Öberg is Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Peace Research (since 2006). He has a PhD in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University (2003) and is co-editor of Resources, Governance, and Civil Conflict (Routledge, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 1. Doing Empirical Peace Research Kristine Höglund and Magnus Öberg
2. The Origins of Contemporary Peace Research Peter Wallensteen Part 2 3.
Peace Research and Source Criticism: Using Historical Methodology to
Improve Information Gathering and Analysis Tomislav Duli¿ 4. Gathering
Conflict Information Using News Resources Magnus Öberg and Margareta
Sollenberg 5. News Reports versus Written Narratives: Collecting
Information Using Different Types of Empirical Sources Frida Möller Part 3
6. Systematic Data Collection: Experiences from the Uppsala Conflict Data
Program Ralph Sundberg and Lotta Harbom 7. Comparative Field Research in
War-Torn Societies Kristine Höglund 8. In-depth Interviewing: the Process,
Skill and Ethics of Interviews in Peace Research Karen Brounéus 9. Focus
Groups: Safety in Numbers? Johanna Söderström 10. Survey Research in
Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies Kristine Eck Part 4 11. Improving
Information Gathering and Evaluation Kristine Höglund and Magnus Öberg.
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