Academic network fostering methodologically robust, ethical, context-sensitive research in fragile and violence-affected settings https://advancingconflictresearch.com/https://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3m6mph7zsjc2y [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Nov 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6mph7zsjc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3m5wkvb2hm22r [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Nov 2025 20:21 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wkvb2hm22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3m5wktenk3k2q [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Nov 2025 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wktenk3k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3m4bhv5cdtc2bImportant thread regarding NSF's conditions of funding & the choices scientists are being forced to make. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Oct 2025 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4bhv5cdtc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3m3wxymal4k26Update 6 (October 2025) of the ARC Bibliography is now live, with several dozen new sources on the main bibliography and an ever-growing list of digital security resources on their own page. Check it out! We'll be adding more over the coming weeks, so feel free to suggest new, relevant pieces here! https://advancingconflictresearch.com/arcbibliography24 Oct 2025 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3wxymal4k26https://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3m253i4f5rk27Not ethnography: 1.) Two-week long field visit 2.) In-depth interviews 3.) Intermittently scanning social media 4.) Being professionally employed before grad school and later writing it up as "research" for a dissertation [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2025 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m253i4f5rk27https://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lrxujdhdhc2rOn writing, reporting, and crossing the US border as a non-citizen. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation19 Jun 2025 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxujdhdhc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lrdvwgg5kk2rIndividual scholars will have to make decisions a/b how they engage w/ programs like Fulbright going into future cycles, if they even continue to exist. But the message being sent by the admin, & that the Board is calling out directly, is that only politically approved projects will go forward. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jun 2025 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrdvwgg5kk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lravtka3cs2wPolitical Science job alert! UK based, Oxford, IR, lectureship. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jun 2025 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lravtka3cs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lr6q53ibz22yEvery single researcher should be up on digital privacy and basic anti-surveillance protocols. Wired has a good intro here. More on the ARC Bibliography. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jun 2025 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr6q53ibz22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lqs7wshnuk2hApropos of absolutely no contemporary issues with archives, libraries, or ethics... https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/ethics-of-archives-improving-historical-social-science-through-the-consideration-of-research-on-violence/28761E79971CBC6555126DA4F6FDEEC904 Jun 2025 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqs7wshnuk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lp2yyuhe3s2l"Conflict, autocracy, censorship, poverty, inequality, disciplinary imperatives, and institutional interests all shape research opportunities and agendas...The Spring 2025 issue of Dædalus explores how ethical standards can be developed and applied to improve the quality of social science research" https://www.amacad.org/daedalus/ethics-social-research-perspectives-study-middle-east-and-north-africa13 May 2025 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2yyuhe3s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3loyzbbqkss2qCall for applications! ARC mini-course to be held at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, UK, September 23-26 2025. Due date for applications: May 31, 2025. advancingconflictresearch.com/summer-program https://advancingconflictresearch.com/summer-program12 May 2025 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3loyzbbqkss2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3loyz44me3k2qIf you are doing international fieldwork for a dissertation or research project this summer, please, please educate yourself about your rights at *all* borders and your obligations under ethical frameworks such as the Institutional Review Board. Employ proper digital security practices. Full stop. https://www.usermag.co/p/hasan-piker-detained-at-the-border-and-questioned-for-hours-over-politics-trump-immigration12 May 2025 22:23 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3loyz44me3k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lo7nwckd2c2aOne great set of reasons not to use duplicate apps when conducting fieldwork. Signal is secure because of its original functionality, which TeleMessage's features negate. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2025 20:26 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo7nwckd2c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lnxikhvvjk2eSo much wrong here, starting w/ a non-consensual, deceptive researcher intervention into an online community that could have permanently shifted that community's dynamics & caused multiple harms. There are ethical ways to use deception, but consultation, debriefing, & do no harm are paramount. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2025 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxikhvvjk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lnalxln5d225On the degradation and destruction of data in the US https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein20 Apr 2025 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnalxln5d225https://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3lms7i4dhvs2kPOSTDOC OPPORTUNITY! "The position is based at ETH Zurich and is supervised by Prof. Livia Schubiger. The candidate will work with the IRDS group on projects...related to gender-based and other forms of violence, as well as avenues to reduce such violence." https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_KENbfPP04C48NgRHOA14 Apr 2025 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lms7i4dhvs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/arcconsortium.bsky.social/post/3llour7t2bk2zARC has added four guides to securing private/academic/journalistic data for border crossings to our digital security page. Materials from CUNY Clear, Wired, The Guardian, & the Committee to Protect Journalists. https://advancingconflictresearch.com/digitalsecurity31 Mar 2025 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:pkseqmz6ikof57464665tnbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3llour7t2bk2z