ABSTRACT
In the efforts to systematise problematic aspects that may arise from sensitive research there is much to gain from interdisciplinary co-operation. The very ways of posing questions may sharpen sensitive ethical dilemmas and affect the involved parties who are at risk both from the internal psychological impact of the traumatic material itself, and externally from its (mis)interpretation by various interest groups in the society at large. By extension, research on sensitive issues thus raise a whole range of problematic issues of methodological relevance. It affect almost any stage in the research process rendering problematic the collecting, holding and/or dissemination of research data. Despite the fact that research activity is frequently described in geographical metaphors, using terminology like 'a field of knowledge' or 'ground-breaking facts', nevertheless our research problems increasingly defy the limits of traditional subjects. Research which at the outset may appear quite harmless can, likewise, later turn out to be potentially risky for its more or less unprepared practitioners.
