What is MINDfields?
We as researchers are pretty bad sometimes about understanding the history of the fields that we participate in, and we are not always good about recognizing or celebrating what has been done in the past. One consequence is that we end up reinventing wheels. Another consequence is that we do not properly comprehend how we came to do what we do.
MINDfields - Political Conflict/Peace was designed to address this problem within the specific subfield of political conflict and peace research in political science and sociology. We will extend our work to anthropology, history, psychology and law. The format is brief: we ask six questions to senior scholars about their work, record them and post them on this webpage. Some questions concern what they have done. Some questions concern what they have not. Some questions prompt reflections. Some prompt prognostication. All provoke thoughts, ideas, and responses that were unforeseen.
MINDfields - Political Conflict/Peace was designed to address this problem within the specific subfield of political conflict and peace research in political science and sociology. We will extend our work to anthropology, history, psychology and law. The format is brief: we ask six questions to senior scholars about their work, record them and post them on this webpage. Some questions concern what they have done. Some questions concern what they have not. Some questions prompt reflections. Some prompt prognostication. All provoke thoughts, ideas, and responses that were unforeseen.