Table of Contents

Introduction: Research as More Than Extraction? Sexual Violence, Fieldwork, and Knowledge Production, by Joel Quirk, Annie Bunting, and Allen Kiconco
PART ONE: ETHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DILEMMAS
Chapter 1: The Ethical Dilemmas and Realities of Doing Research in Conflict and Postconflict Settings, by Teddy Atim
Chapter 2: Reflections on a Collaboration between a European Doctoral Student and a Congolese Assistant Interpreter, by Sylvie Bodineau and Appolinaire Lipandasi
Chapter 3: Research with Children Born of War: A Sensitive and Ethical Methodology, by Beth W. Stewart
Chapter 4: Sheltering Survivors and Localizing Research Ethics in Northeast Nigeria, by Lawan Balami and Umar Ahmad Umar
Chapter 5: Research with Formerly Abducted Mothers and Fathers in Postconflict Northern Uganda: A Plea for Transparency, by Leen De Nutte
Chapter 6: Slavery and Its Meanings in the British World: Historiography, Knowledge Production, and Research Ethics, by Ana Stevenson and Rebecca Swartz
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Chapter 7: Conducting Participatory Research with Male Survivors of Wartime Rape in Northern Uganda, by Philipp Schulz
Chapter 8: Research Ethics Governance and Epistemic Violence: The Case for a Decolonized Approach, by Samuel Okyere
Chapter 9: Research Ethics in Complex Humanitarian Settings: The Case of USAID/Nigeria’s Evaluation of Its Northeast Nigeria Portfolio, by Judith-Ann Walker
Chapter 10: Video Documentation and Video Advocacy: The Story of the Documentary Bringing Up Our Enemies’ Child, by Otim Patrick Ongwech
Chapter 11: Resolving Justice: Frictions between Community-Based Organizations and the United Nations Women, Peace and Security Agenda, by Heather Tasker
Afterword: From Extraction to Equity? Pathways to Better Practice, by Annie Bunting, Allen Kiconco, and Joel Quirk

Promotional Information

This book contributes to an increasingly significant interdisciplinary field that focuses on ethics, methods, and the politics of gender-based violence. Its contributors, the majority of whom are based in Africa, offer concrete examples of how to undertake responsible research in African contexts.

About the Author

Annie Bunting is a professor in the law and society program at York University, teaching in the areas of social justice and human rights. She is coeditor of Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa and Contemporary Slavery: The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns. Allen Kiconco is the author of Gender, Conflict, and Reintegration in Uganda: Abducted Girls, Returning Women. She works on the lived experiences of women and girls in both conflict and postconflict settings of Africa, including abduction, captivity, sexual slavery, forced marriage, and forced pregnancy. Joel Quirk is a professor of politics at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author or coeditor of eight books and is a founding editor of Open Democracy’s Beyond Trafficking and Slavery. His work focuses on enslavement and abolition, work and mobility, social movements, gender and violence, historical repair, and the history and politics of Africa.