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Author: Felbab-Brown, Vanda

Title: Security Considerations for Conducting Fieldwork in Highly Dangerous Places or on Highly Dangerous Subjects

Summary: While readily acknowledging that interviewing criminals, militants and intelligence and security actors can get one arrested, kidnapped or killed, Felbab-Brown presents a set of fieldwork guidelines and personal anecdotes that illustrate possible approaches for researchers as they confront the very real security threats inherent to their line of work. Felbab-Brown argues that conducting both secure and effective research that minimizes threats to the external and internal validity of causal claims and policy assessment demands extensive preparation and the ability to stay calm under pressure, while also knowing how to turn adrenaline into one's advantage, engage in quick, on-the-spot reasoning and make continual judgments about the fluid security situation in which one is working. She emphasizes the importance of specific logistical and security preparation-which can easily equal the time to be spent in the field-and advises that multiple research trips are usually necessary for establishing a set of contacts that can eventually serve as a gateway to certain regions, interlocutors and interviewees.

Details: Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, Social Science Research Council, 2014. 29p.

Source: Internet Resource: Working Paper on Research Security No. 3,: Accessed June 26, 2014 at: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/06/06_security_considerations_fieldwork_felbab_brown/06_security_considerations_fieldwork_felbab_brown_report.pdf

Year: 2014

Country: International

URL: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/06/06_security_considerations_fieldwork_felbab_brown/06_security_considerations_fieldwork_felbab_brown_report.pdf

Shelf Number: 132546

Keywords:
Personal Security
Risky Places