REMENA Workshop in Amman with APSA

This workshop was organized by the Research Ethics in the Middle East and North Africa (REMENA) project at Columbia University in conjunction with an American Political Science Association Conference: New Landscapes in MENA Politics Research. Organized in partnership with Columbia Global Center in Amman, the conference took place in Jordan from July 28-30, 2022. This program was made possible thanks to the generous funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the President’s Global Innovation Fund at Columbia University, and the American Political Science Association.

The REMENA workshops at the APSA: New Landscapes in MENA Politics Research conference focused particularly on advising and mentoring the next generation of political scientists. How can advisors of doctoral students and early career researchers in political science ensure that their students and colleagues are best prepared for confronting the ethical dilemmas of research among communities under duress, including the very poor, forced migrants and other marginalized peoples, and in authoritarian settings often hostile to the research enterprise? Drawing together faculty members and doctoral students, the conversations explored mechanisms to support such advisors.

The REMENA project hosted three conversations at the APSA: New Landscapes in MENA Politics Research conference over the three days of the event. REMENA workshops guests participated in all three REMENA sessions, where scholars engaged in fruitful conversations on the research enterprise and the challenges early career political scientists face working in the MENA region. They also had the opportunity to participate in the broader programming sponsored by the APSA, in which approximately 60 early career scholars discussed their own work.

More details about the Amman workshop can be identified here.