ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the opportunities and challenges of the research question and methodological approach in each of the some field research studies and how each practises reflexivity within and about its methods and methodology. Sabrina Karim's study examines the effects of gender reform in the Liberian National Police – a post-conflict, if not a non-state, actor. She also highlights how a reflexive approach to the field experiment method was crucial to its successful application. Such an approach goes beyond the requirements of institutional 'human subject ethics approval' processes within universities and other research organizations and the 'do no harm' principle common in other research. The design and selection of cases to assess the effectiveness of security initiatives by business organizations in conflict-affected states requires the same rigour and involves similar challenges to the design and selection of a security sector field experiment site.
