My research partner and I are documenting testimonies for a truth commission and they keep pushing survivors to share more graphic details while I think we're retraumatizing people for the sake of a more compelling report. We both believe in the work but our methods are becoming ethically incompatible.
More people experience this than they realize.
Collaborators in truth-gathering work discover their different approaches to survivor testimony create moral conflict about their shared mission.
“Where Are You with Truth and reconciliation commissions?”
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