This seminar provides a critical introduction to how knowledge is
produced in and about (post)conflict zones. It focuses on the
intricacies of the production of statistical and qualitative data, on
institutions engaged in conflict reporting and their policies (like
Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group), on ethnographies
of spaces of aid and peacebuilding, on the construction of expertise,
on fieldwork industries and their share in coproducing data, on the
politics of evidence, and on how knowledge about conflict in turn shapes
conflict itself. How do think tanks, academics, and politicians gather
evidence about conflicts that are often almost impossible to study
directly? How is access to conflict knowledge mediated? How are “facts”
established? And what role do institutions, political narratives, and
networks play in the production of knowledge about postconflict
situations? Why are some conflicts studied and receive attention, while
others tend to be ignored or “forgotten”? This seminar provides an
introduction to this comparatively novel topic in peace and conflict
studies.
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Daniel Bultmann
- Kursverantwortliche/r: SHK Gesellschaft und Transformation in Asien und Afrika