Navigating the terrain of methods and ethics in conflict research

Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-22

  Cramer, Christopher ^a   Hammond, Laura ^a   Pottier, Johan ^a  

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