Reflections
Navigating Ethical Complexity and Contracting in Multi-Stakeholder Projects
The challenges:
- Balancing the desire to collaborate with / provide analytical support to a government agency on a matter of crucial national and human security importance, with the need to maintain institutional and analytical autonomy in our own academic-practitioner interactions.
- Managing expectations by practitioners / policymakers about what type of analysis could be reasonably and ethically produced under time
Issue Areas: DDR / Recovering from WarEngagement Experiences: Close collaboration with policymakers
Requests for Revisions That Go Against One’s Findings
The Challenge:
Responding to requests for substantive revisions to consultancy work that go against one’s findings, analysis, or professional opinion
The Background and Policy Setting:
King is a political scientist committed to conducting policy-relevant research related to war, peace, development, and education. Over the past 15 years, alongside her university-based work, she has partnered with a number of governments, non-governmental
... Read MoreIssue Areas: DDR / Recovering from WarEngagement Experiences: Close collaboration with policymakers, Research ethics
Public Questions & Answers
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Question Summary:
Passing judgement on organizations that offer me research consultancies ?
Issue Areas: American/Comparative Public Policy, Corporate / NGO Engagement, DDR / Recovering from War, Digital / Cyber Space, Economic Issues, Environment / Climate, Health, Policing, Traditional Peace and SecurityEngagement Experiences: Writing for policy audiences with which the scholar is connected