Research Methods in Conflict Settings: A View from Below

Dyan Mazurana is Associate Research Professor at the Fletcher School, and Research Director of Gender, Youth, and Community at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University. Mazurana's areas of specialty include women's and children's rights during and after armed conflict, armed opposition groups' serious crimes and violations committed during armed conflict, and remedy and reparation. Her most recent books include After the Taliban: Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan (2008, with Nojumi and Stites), and Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping (2005, with Raven-Roberts and Parpart). She has published more than seventy scholarly and policy books, articles and international reports in numerous languages.

Karen Jacobsen is Associate Professor at the School of Nutrition and Science Policy, and teaches at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. She is based at the Feinstein International Center where she leads the Refugees and Forced Migration Program. Jacobsen's current research focuses on urban refugees and internally displaced persons in Africa, and on livelihood interventions in conflict-affected areas. Her most recent book, The Economic Life of Refugees, was published in 2005. She teaches courses on field research methods and on forced migration.

Lacey Gale is Visiting Fellow at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and Research Associate in the Africana Studies Program at Bowdoin College. Her current research focuses on community leadership, healing and storytelling among refugee diasporas in the United States. Gale has worked with refugee populations in West Africa and the United States since 1998. She has conducted research and written on issues of gender and family, child fostering, youth leadership, durable solutions, host-refugee relationships, and transnational connections and remittance sending among refugee diasporas.