Toward an Emancipatory Methodology for Peace Research

Bibliographic Data

ID11218613
AuthorsAbigail A Fuller (corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume17
Issue3
Pages286-311
Publication date1992-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePeace & Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0149-0508 • E-ISSN: 1468-0130
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-0130.1992.tb00586.x
OpenAlexW2042262018
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Peace research is meant to help those working to develop a more peaceful and just world, but it falls short of its potential in this respect. Most peace research is research for dominant groups (taking the nation‐state as primary actor) or about subordinate groups (utilizing them as objects in the research process). Instead, an emancipatory methodology is one that involves in the research process as coinvestigators subordinate groups struggling for change. Standpoint theory, which posits that in a stratified society the perspectives on social reality of those at the bottom are less partial and perverse than those at the top, is used to justify this methodology. The implications of standpoint theory for some issues in peace research and some obstacles to the adoption by peace researchers of an emancipatory methodology are discussed

Epistemology · Peace and conflict studies · Political science · Process (computing · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Peace and Human Rights Education · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance

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