B Vogel
Biographic Data
| ID | 15917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Vogel |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Vogel |
| SIGNATURE | VOGEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0965-920X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Qualitative data and the ethics of ownership: A proposal for collecting and preserving research from conflict-affected areas
While academic journal policies and funding requirements often stipulate the sharing of data in a push for scientific transparency and in an effort to contribute to the open science movement, in practice, qualitative data is less frequently shared and made available. In this paper, we argue that the principles of transparency, validity and reproducibility do not necessarily provide convincing rationales or ethical imperatives for qualitative data…
Ethics beyond the ethics board: Field research in light of the local turn
Caught in the middle: Local researchers’ experience of mundane ethical harms in crisis settings
Most literature on research ethics originates from the perspectives of international researchers and, to a lesser extent, research subjects. This article goes beyond the prevailing understanding of ethical misconduct as a failure to secure informed consent, data breaches, coercion, or misuse of data. Instead, it seeks to develop the notion of ‘mundane ethical harms’ in conflict- and disaster-affected research, which are rooted in and shaped by th…
Graffiti as Method: Spatio-temporal Analysis of Political Perception and Community Relations in Belfast
This article explores the methodological possibilities that a graffiti dataset offers to a spatio-temporal analysis of peace and conflict. Leveraging our original visual dataset of Belfast’s changing muralscape, the analysis unpacks how messages painted on walls offer a lens into evolving local sentiments, politics, unity, and divisions. We suggest that tracking changes in graffiti across time offers methodological innovation in understanding con…
Mind the ethics gap: Embedding research ethics into student fieldtrips to conflict and development settings
This paper suggests that conducting research in conflict and disaster affected societies with student groups as part of higher education programmes can offer a valuable opportunity to enhance research ethics training in political sciences and international relations courses. Research visits allow students to critically reflect on their roles in knowledge production processes, their own positionality and to develop key skills such as reflective pr…
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations
Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Global Southern scholars has changed little. Against the backdrop of growing scholarly concerns about global inequality in knowledge production, this forum takes stock of the search for global IR and examines the academic practices and structures that hinder its progress. The contributions highlight numerou…
An Illusion of Empowerment? A Twenty-Year Review of United Nations Reports on Localization in Iraq
Localization has emerged as a dominant reform paradigm guiding humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding efforts on a global scale. It signals a commitment to shift power to local actors by recognizing, valuing, and strengthening their role in humanitarian or peacebuilding interventions. Despite this commitment, a noticeable reorientation of power to local actors has not occurred. This article contributes to the critical scholarship on localiz…
Humanitarian cash assistance: Risks and Opportunities for Local Peace
This article unpacks the conflict-sensitivity concerns of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance programs (CVA). Contrasting orthodox analysis of economic programming that focuses on the macro level, the article highlights how CVA impacts everyday social and economic dynamics in communities with specific reference to Lebanon. The findings confirm a short-term stabilising effect on the macro level; however, it is also identified that CVA heighte…
The economic local turn in peace and conflict studies: Economic peacebuilding interventions and the everyday
This article calls for a better integration of economic and socio-economic aspects of peacemaking efforts into critical peace and conflict scholarship and can be read as a corrective to the predominance of top-down and state-centric lenses in the examination of post-war economic recovery. As of yet, academic debates surrounding peace interventions have not adequately integrated the economic with the political, in particular at the level of the ev…
The social meaning of money: Multidimensional Implications of Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance
Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) has become a widespread humanitarian tool to support people affected by conflicts, displacement, and disasters. It promises improved ways to meet the diverse needs of aid beneficiaries. Current policy and academic debates mainly centre on technocratic questions concerning economy, effectiveness, and equity, and, to a lesser extent, the effects on individual recipients and households. This paper challenges the ass…
The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork
Reading socio-political and spatial dynamics through graffiti in conflict-affected societies
This paper argues that graffiti can provide a form of socio-political commentary at the local level, and is a valuable, yet often overlooked, resource for scholars and policymakers in conflict-affected societies. Graffiti, in its many forms, can provide rich insight into societies, cultures, social issues, trends, political discourse, and spatial and territorial identities and claims. Thus, this, paper suggests that graffiti is a valuable source …
(Re)constructing borders through the governance of tourism and trade in Ladakh, India
Buying-Shopping Disorder and Partnership Satisfaction
Intervention Gentrification and Everyday Socio-economic Transactions in Intervention Societies
This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the debate by demonstrating the effects of intervention gentrification and sketching out different forms of local–intervener interactions. We argue that the majority of economic impacts are localised and connected to immediate geographic proximity and thus require a qualitative methodological approach. Further, many of these implications are of a socio-eco…
Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies
Looking beyond and beneath the macro level, this special issue is interested in the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms, socio-economic peacebuilding programmes and intern
Understanding the impact of geographies and space on the possibilities of peace activism
Current peace research has provided scholars with a range of conceptualizations of what peace is. Further, there is a substantial body of literature on the processes used to build peace – the how of peacebuilding. However, there is little research that examines the question of where peace and peacebuilding occur and how these spaces shape the possibilities of non-state actors to achieve their objectives. This article makes a theoretical and empir…
Civil Society Capture: Top-Down Interventions from Below
Driven by the failure of internationally led top-down peacebuilding interventions, international donors have increasingly posited that civil society actors can play a crucial role in peacebuilding and conflict resolution. This has led to a notable increase in the support for civil society in order to integrate local perspectives into peacebuilding and statebuilding interventions over the past decades. Using the case of Cyprus, this paper challeng…
EU support to civil society organizations in conflict-ridden countries: A governance perspective from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Georgia
From a peacebuilding perspective, EU support for civil society organizations (CSOs) in conflict-ridden countries can be criticized for artificially boosting a liberal, ‘bourgeois’ civil society at the expense of more representative initiatives at the grassroots level. Seen from a governance perspective, however, this criticism is lacking in nuance and conceals the actual rationale and effects of the support. To advance a realistic debate on inter…
Peacebuilding
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirte VogelBirte Vogel is a post-doctoral researcher and grant writer at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester, UK. She is Managing Editor of Peacebuilding. E-mail: [email protected] P. RichmondOliver P. Richmond is Research Professor in IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester, UK and International Professor at Kyung Hee Unive…
Understanding the impact of geographies and space on the possibilities of peace activism
Current peace research has provided scholars with a range of conceptualizations of what peace is. Further, there is a substantial body of literature on the processes used to build peace – the how of peacebuilding. However, there is little research that examines the question of where peace and peacebuilding occur and how these spaces shape the possibilities of non-state actors to achieve their objectives. This article makes a theoretical and empir…
Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies
Looking beyond and beneath the macro level, this special issue is interested in the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms, socio-economic peacebuilding programmes and intern
Civil Society Capture: Top-Down Interventions from Below
Driven by the failure of internationally led top-down peacebuilding interventions, international donors have increasingly posited that civil society actors can play a crucial role in peacebuilding and conflict resolution. This has led to a notable increase in the support for civil society in order to integrate local perspectives into peacebuilding and statebuilding interventions over the past decades. Using the case of Cyprus, this paper challeng…
The economic local turn in peace and conflict studies: Economic peacebuilding interventions and the everyday
This article calls for a better integration of economic and socio-economic aspects of peacemaking efforts into critical peace and conflict scholarship and can be read as a corrective to the predominance of top-down and state-centric lenses in the examination of post-war economic recovery. As of yet, academic debates surrounding peace interventions have not adequately integrated the economic with the political, in particular at the level of the ev…
Reading socio-political and spatial dynamics through graffiti in conflict-affected societies
This paper argues that graffiti can provide a form of socio-political commentary at the local level, and is a valuable, yet often overlooked, resource for scholars and policymakers in conflict-affected societies. Graffiti, in its many forms, can provide rich insight into societies, cultures, social issues, trends, political discourse, and spatial and territorial identities and claims. Thus, this, paper suggests that graffiti is a valuable source …
(Re)constructing borders through the governance of tourism and trade in Ladakh, India
The social meaning of money: Multidimensional Implications of Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance
Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) has become a widespread humanitarian tool to support people affected by conflicts, displacement, and disasters. It promises improved ways to meet the diverse needs of aid beneficiaries. Current policy and academic debates mainly centre on technocratic questions concerning economy, effectiveness, and equity, and, to a lesser extent, the effects on individual recipients and households. This paper challenges the ass…
Intervention Gentrification and Everyday Socio-economic Transactions in Intervention Societies
This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the debate by demonstrating the effects of intervention gentrification and sketching out different forms of local–intervener interactions. We argue that the majority of economic impacts are localised and connected to immediate geographic proximity and thus require a qualitative methodological approach. Further, many of these implications are of a socio-eco…
EU support to civil society organizations in conflict-ridden countries: A governance perspective from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Georgia
From a peacebuilding perspective, EU support for civil society organizations (CSOs) in conflict-ridden countries can be criticized for artificially boosting a liberal, ‘bourgeois’ civil society at the expense of more representative initiatives at the grassroots level. Seen from a governance perspective, however, this criticism is lacking in nuance and conceals the actual rationale and effects of the support. To advance a realistic debate on inter…
Humanitarian cash assistance: Risks and Opportunities for Local Peace
This article unpacks the conflict-sensitivity concerns of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance programs (CVA). Contrasting orthodox analysis of economic programming that focuses on the macro level, the article highlights how CVA impacts everyday social and economic dynamics in communities with specific reference to Lebanon. The findings confirm a short-term stabilising effect on the macro level; however, it is also identified that CVA heighte…
Graffiti as Method: Spatio-temporal Analysis of Political Perception and Community Relations in Belfast
This article explores the methodological possibilities that a graffiti dataset offers to a spatio-temporal analysis of peace and conflict. Leveraging our original visual dataset of Belfast’s changing muralscape, the analysis unpacks how messages painted on walls offer a lens into evolving local sentiments, politics, unity, and divisions. We suggest that tracking changes in graffiti across time offers methodological innovation in understanding con…
Mind the ethics gap: Embedding research ethics into student fieldtrips to conflict and development settings
This paper suggests that conducting research in conflict and disaster affected societies with student groups as part of higher education programmes can offer a valuable opportunity to enhance research ethics training in political sciences and international relations courses. Research visits allow students to critically reflect on their roles in knowledge production processes, their own positionality and to develop key skills such as reflective pr…
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations
Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Global Southern scholars has changed little. Against the backdrop of growing scholarly concerns about global inequality in knowledge production, this forum takes stock of the search for global IR and examines the academic practices and structures that hinder its progress. The contributions highlight numerou…
Peacebuilding
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirte VogelBirte Vogel is a post-doctoral researcher and grant writer at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester, UK. She is Managing Editor of Peacebuilding. E-mail: [email protected] P. RichmondOliver P. Richmond is Research Professor in IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester, UK and International Professor at Kyung Hee Unive…
Civil Society Capture: Top-Down Interventions from Below
Driven by the failure of internationally led top-down peacebuilding interventions, international donors have increasingly posited that civil society actors can play a crucial role in peacebuilding and conflict resolution. This has led to a notable increase in the support for civil society in order to integrate local perspectives into peacebuilding and statebuilding interventions over the past decades. Using the case of Cyprus, this paper challeng…
EU support to civil society organizations in conflict-ridden countries: A governance perspective from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Georgia
From a peacebuilding perspective, EU support for civil society organizations (CSOs) in conflict-ridden countries can be criticized for artificially boosting a liberal, ‘bourgeois’ civil society at the expense of more representative initiatives at the grassroots level. Seen from a governance perspective, however, this criticism is lacking in nuance and conceals the actual rationale and effects of the support. To advance a realistic debate on inter…
Buying-Shopping Disorder and Partnership Satisfaction
Intervention Gentrification and Everyday Socio-economic Transactions in Intervention Societies
This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the debate by demonstrating the effects of intervention gentrification and sketching out different forms of local–intervener interactions. We argue that the majority of economic impacts are localised and connected to immediate geographic proximity and thus require a qualitative methodological approach. Further, many of these implications are of a socio-eco…
Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies
Looking beyond and beneath the macro level, this special issue is interested in the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms, socio-economic peacebuilding programmes and intern
Understanding the impact of geographies and space on the possibilities of peace activism
Current peace research has provided scholars with a range of conceptualizations of what peace is. Further, there is a substantial body of literature on the processes used to build peace – the how of peacebuilding. However, there is little research that examines the question of where peace and peacebuilding occur and how these spaces shape the possibilities of non-state actors to achieve their objectives. This article makes a theoretical and empir…
Reading socio-political and spatial dynamics through graffiti in conflict-affected societies
This paper argues that graffiti can provide a form of socio-political commentary at the local level, and is a valuable, yet often overlooked, resource for scholars and policymakers in conflict-affected societies. Graffiti, in its many forms, can provide rich insight into societies, cultures, social issues, trends, political discourse, and spatial and territorial identities and claims. Thus, this, paper suggests that graffiti is a valuable source …
(Re)constructing borders through the governance of tourism and trade in Ladakh, India
The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork
The economic local turn in peace and conflict studies: Economic peacebuilding interventions and the everyday
This article calls for a better integration of economic and socio-economic aspects of peacemaking efforts into critical peace and conflict scholarship and can be read as a corrective to the predominance of top-down and state-centric lenses in the examination of post-war economic recovery. As of yet, academic debates surrounding peace interventions have not adequately integrated the economic with the political, in particular at the level of the ev…
The social meaning of money: Multidimensional Implications of Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance
Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) has become a widespread humanitarian tool to support people affected by conflicts, displacement, and disasters. It promises improved ways to meet the diverse needs of aid beneficiaries. Current policy and academic debates mainly centre on technocratic questions concerning economy, effectiveness, and equity, and, to a lesser extent, the effects on individual recipients and households. This paper challenges the ass…
An Illusion of Empowerment? A Twenty-Year Review of United Nations Reports on Localization in Iraq
Localization has emerged as a dominant reform paradigm guiding humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding efforts on a global scale. It signals a commitment to shift power to local actors by recognizing, valuing, and strengthening their role in humanitarian or peacebuilding interventions. Despite this commitment, a noticeable reorientation of power to local actors has not occurred. This article contributes to the critical scholarship on localiz…
Humanitarian cash assistance: Risks and Opportunities for Local Peace
This article unpacks the conflict-sensitivity concerns of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance programs (CVA). Contrasting orthodox analysis of economic programming that focuses on the macro level, the article highlights how CVA impacts everyday social and economic dynamics in communities with specific reference to Lebanon. The findings confirm a short-term stabilising effect on the macro level; however, it is also identified that CVA heighte…
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations
Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Global Southern scholars has changed little. Against the backdrop of growing scholarly concerns about global inequality in knowledge production, this forum takes stock of the search for global IR and examines the academic practices and structures that hinder its progress. The contributions highlight numerou…
Caught in the middle: Local researchers’ experience of mundane ethical harms in crisis settings
Most literature on research ethics originates from the perspectives of international researchers and, to a lesser extent, research subjects. This article goes beyond the prevailing understanding of ethical misconduct as a failure to secure informed consent, data breaches, coercion, or misuse of data. Instead, it seeks to develop the notion of ‘mundane ethical harms’ in conflict- and disaster-affected research, which are rooted in and shaped by th…
Graffiti as Method: Spatio-temporal Analysis of Political Perception and Community Relations in Belfast
This article explores the methodological possibilities that a graffiti dataset offers to a spatio-temporal analysis of peace and conflict. Leveraging our original visual dataset of Belfast’s changing muralscape, the analysis unpacks how messages painted on walls offer a lens into evolving local sentiments, politics, unity, and divisions. We suggest that tracking changes in graffiti across time offers methodological innovation in understanding con…
Mind the ethics gap: Embedding research ethics into student fieldtrips to conflict and development settings
This paper suggests that conducting research in conflict and disaster affected societies with student groups as part of higher education programmes can offer a valuable opportunity to enhance research ethics training in political sciences and international relations courses. Research visits allow students to critically reflect on their roles in knowledge production processes, their own positionality and to develop key skills such as reflective pr…
Qualitative data and the ethics of ownership: A proposal for collecting and preserving research from conflict-affected areas
While academic journal policies and funding requirements often stipulate the sharing of data in a push for scientific transparency and in an effort to contribute to the open science movement, in practice, qualitative data is less frequently shared and made available. In this paper, we argue that the principles of transparency, validity and reproducibility do not necessarily provide convincing rationales or ethical imperatives for qualitative data…
Ethics beyond the ethics board: Field research in light of the local turn
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