Conflict research is rife with ethical issues, and the field is increasingly reflecting on how to best address these. Recent debates in political science have mainly focused on ethics in practice, leaving questions of procedural ethics to the side. But procedural ethics are important: they are increasingly required across all areas of research, they are the bedrock of institutional approaches to regulating ethics, and they shape ideas about what constitutes ethical research practice. This article introduces the Research Ethics Governance dataset, the first globally comprehensive dataset of national-level ethics regulations. The dataset provides a picture of the status of research ethics regulations and how they pertain to conflict research. While 87% of countries have requirements for ethical review, only 25% extend those regulations to the social sciences. Of countries with no evidence of requirements, nearly half are classed as fragile or conflict-affected states. The data will be useful for scholars concerned with questions of research ethics, as well as those seeking to study the politics of this regulatory structure and its implications for knowledge production.

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社会科学研究的程序伦理：研究伦理治理数据集简介


冲突研究充满了伦理问题，该领域越来越多地思考如何最好地解决这些问题。最近政治学的争论主要集中在实践中的伦理问题，而将程序伦理问题放在一边。但程序伦理很重要：所有研究领域都越来越需要它们，它们是规范伦理的制度方法的基石，并且它们塑造了关于伦理研究实践的构成的想法。本文介绍了研究伦理治理数据集，这是第一个全球综合的国家级伦理法规数据集。该数据集提供了研究伦理法规的现状以及它们如何与冲突研究相关的图片。虽然 87% 的国家有伦理审查要求，但只有 25% 的国家将这些规定扩展到社会科学领域。在没有需求证据的国家中，近一半被归类为脆弱或受冲突影响的国家。这些数据对于关注研究伦理问题的学者以及那些寻求研究这种监管结构的政治及其对知识生产的影响的学者来说将是有用的。