ABSTRACT
The code serves to implement the primary mission of the global qualitative inquiry community; namely, to use the methods and principles of critical qualitative inquiry for social justice purposes. Members of this community seek an ethics of justice framed by human rights agendas, understanding that ethical decision-making is a dialogical process. The flaws in the current regulatory ethical apparatuses are well known, and have been reviewed extensively by others. The past is littered with controversy, acrimony, and struggle. A path through the current ethical maze must be found. Researchers are invited to become ethics officers within their own academic and research settings. The executive council of the Oral History Association, endorsed the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recommendations in its October 2006 annual meeting. They were quite clear: "institutions consider as straightforwardly exempt from Institutional Review Board (IRB) review any 'research whose methodology consists entirely of collecting data by surveys, conducting interviews, or observing behavior in public places'".
