One of the most common concerns about conducting fieldwork in violent settings is the danger of re-traumatizing someone (e.g. via survey, interviews about harm). Does anyone know of any studies that actually tries to measure this risk? Or the magnitude/duration of the harm done?
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Which indicates maybe we/IRBs/etc have the wrong angle on some of these concerns, and how to deal with or understand them. Anyway, check out these: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10508422.2010.521443 … https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/davidrwilliams/files/2004-ethics_of_research-williams.pdf …
All of that said, I couldn't find much about war-related contexts in this regard. A lot of it was with survivors of violence in non-war contexts. Curious to see if you find anything on doing this in the context of ongoing violence...