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Citation

Silkin T, Hendrie B. Disasters 1997; 21(2): 166-176.

Affiliation

University College London.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9204632

Abstract

The paper engages in the discussion of conducting research in war zones, initiated in Disasters by Barakat and Ellis. It looks specifically at possibilities for research in the war zones of Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia during the 1980s, and notes the ways in which this context differs from wars in the former Yugoslavia to which Barakat and Ellis mainly refer. The authors suggest that the unique context of every internal war, and the institutional actors that converge around this context, create both the potential and the demand for particular kinds of information, especially when humanitarian programmes involving international donors are under way. De-contexualising research in war zones from the specific context in which it occurs, in order to derive general guidelines, can thus be problematic.


Language: en

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