Monday, March 25, 8:30am-12noon, Derby Hall [Rm. 1039], 154 N. Oval Mall

This interactive workshop will draw on the Everyday Peace Indicators to examine the broader scholarly and policy issue of measurement in relation to peace and other hard-to-measure social phenomena. The session will chart the evolution of the Everyday Peace Indicators, outline the methodology and policy application, as well as having a practical exercise. The core thinking behind the Everyday Peace Indicators is that local communities are best placed to identify the main trends in their lives and environment. Thus, the indicators are community-sourced. This sets them apart from many other indicator systems that are top-down and “supply-driven.” The workshop will cover a series of practical and ethical concerns linked with research in conflict-affected contexts and consider how data collected at a granular level can be utilized for practical and policy purposes.

Speaker

Roger Mac Ginty is Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs and Director of the Durham Global Security Institute. He is co-founder of the Everyday Peace Indicators; his latest book, Everyday Peace: How So-called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

A breakfast reception will be from 8:30am to 9am; the workshop will take place from 9am to 12noon.

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Hosted by Mershon Center for International Security Studies.