Everyday action research for complex times
A peacebuilder’s guide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6134165 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie Pace (0000-0002-8280-1877, Freelance peacebuilding consultant and coach, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-71 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1476750320905898 |
| OpenAlex | W3016744615 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
In the midst of the increasing intensity of our world, peacebuilding practice is rapidly transforming. These changes come with a growing recognition that complexity is a new type of problem that requires new approaches and responses. As conflict resolution and peacebuilding actors are increasingly adopting complexity thinking and approaches to program implementation, I propose that we can learn to better master complexity by how we attend to our everyday experience. This, I suggest, is something that peacebuilding practitioners can do as a form of ongoing inquiry into the first-person territory of relational, contextual information that surrounds and includes the problems we care about and seek to address. I use a difficult incident from my experience to demonstrate some of what makes complexity so challenging and to explore ways we can learn to deal with these challenges. In keeping with the emancipatory and self-reflective traditions of action research and conflict resolution, an everyday action research is my way of harnessing inquiry and practice to expand capacities to meet the challenges we face in an increasingly complex world
Action (physics · Action research · Conflict resolution · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Peacebuilding · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Community Health and Development · Peace and Human Rights Education · Peacebuilding and International Security
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |