Session 3: Research and Ethics in Conflict and War

This roundtable will focus on the ethical challenges of doing research in times and zones of conflict and war. Based on three short inputs from different professional perspectives we aim to discuss how we can do meaningful research without doing harm to respondents and researchers. We will discuss how to prepare for research in conflict and war, how to react to unforeseen events in the field and how to follow up this kind of research. We will talk about how to deal with formalist ethic requirements by institutions and how to improve them. We encourage all participants to actively take part in the discussion and share their own experience with us.