Conducting Community Led Research on Women Facing Violence as One Herself: An Interview with Suyheang Kry of Women Peace Makers

Abstract

This interview is a reflexive exchange with Suyheang Kry, Executive Director of Women Peace Makers, a local non-governmental organization in Cambodia working at the intersection of gender equality and peacebuilding. A leader and experienced practitioner of feminist and conflict transformation programming, she has pioneered various novel efforts, including interventional community research, in responding to social justice and conflict issues in Cambodia and throughout the region. Having worked with the interviewer (Hyma) for a decade, the two co-developed a community engaged research approach known as Facilitative Listening Design to engage communities in inquiry as leaders and to ultimately contribute toward paradigmatically shifting who is consequently considered the researcher in more participatory research.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

The work discussed in this article was supported by Voice under Grant No. V-19103-KH-EM-03.

Notes on contributors

Raymond Hyma

Raymond Hyma is a Joint PhD Candidate at the Monash Global Peace and Security Center at Monash University and the Warwick Interdisciplinary Center for Research on International Development at the University of Warwick. A practitioner-scholar, his research explores power dynamics, conflict transformation potential, and knowledge contribution in the application of participatory and action-oriented research methods in conflict contexts. E-mail: [email protected]