Introduction

The IED is part of the ACSS initiative on “Research Ethics for the Social Sciences,” within which the ACSS will also launch “The Arab Platform for Ethical Research in the Social Sciences.” The aim of the platform is to raise awareness on the importance of ethical conduct of research. It will include an online and interactive training program that targets junior researchers and students at the Masters and PhD level. The platform also aims to foster discussion about principles of research ethics in social sciences and their adaptability to field research requirements and developments in the social sciences and humanities, particularly in conflict and insecure settings. An amount of USD 4,000 on average will be available to researchers from the Arab region who have already participated in ACSS programs.

IED is funded by a grant provided to the ACSS by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.

Cycle 5 Initiatives on Ethical Dilemmas (2022)

Selection Committee

Jamil Mouawad is a Senior Fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative in charge of the independent professional associations project in the Arab world. He is also a lecturer in politics at the American University of Beirut, where he teaches courses in Public Policy, Political Science and Lebanese politics. He holds a PhD in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is a former Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. Jamil is a founding member of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies, and the coordinator of the Ethics in Social sciences project initiated by the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). His research interests in state-society relations span the subfields of comparative politics and political economy. He has several scientific publications and is a regular commentator on Lebanese politics.

Lamia Moghnieh is a EUME fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and a former ACSS postdoctoral fellow. Her book project "Psychiatry in Lebanon from the 19th to the 21th century: Madness, Violence and Society" traces the cultural authority of modern psychiatry in Lebanon, through primary analysis of archival documents from the Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders (popularly known as Asfuriyeh hospital) and ethnographic research on contemporary psychiatric practices.

Samer Ghamroun earned his PhD in legal sociology from the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan, Paris, on the subject of judicial competition between juvenile and Sharia judges in Lebanon, around the protection of children’s and women’s rights. He is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Saint Joseph University of Beirut, where he teaches legal sociology, legal history, and constitutional law, among other courses. He is also a senior researcher and a scientific editor with the Legal Agenda team in Beirut.

Small Grants Program (IED) Grantee 2022:

Type of Grant: Fieldwork

Mouloud Amghar

Nationality: Morrocan

Project Title: رد الجميل: من المسؤلية العلمية للباحثين إلى المسؤولية الاجتماعية