Description
Russia’s unprovoked military aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, shattered the Western world as we knew it. While smaller-scale military conflicts have taken place in Europe before (including the war simmering in East Ukraine since 2014), Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine became a moment of no return in the relations of Russia with Western countries. Along with moral, strategic, and security implications, the war shattered the status quo in the research on the area as well. The war has put into question the possibility, validity, and reliability of widely used methods in research on the region, such as survey, experiment, interview, ethnography, and others. This challenge requires new approaches to data collection, evaluation of validity and reliability, as well as learning from other disciplines and area specialists. The symposium will address methodological challenges facing scholars of authoritarianism, war, and conflict and particularly focus on methodological and ethical dilemmas in qualitative data collection, validity and reliability of survey research, the potential and limitations of computational methods and online tools as well as addressing personal emotional involvement in knowledge-creating processes that are normally expected to take place in a more neutral environment.| Period | 23 Jun 2023 → 24 Jun 2023 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | London, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |