Disrupting the Knowledge Trap ‒ Early-Career Researchers and the Global South as Agents of Epistemic Change
By Natália Bueno, Roberta Holanda Maschietto, and Sarah Njeri. This entry questions the foundations of knowledge production in Peace and Conflict Studies by advocating an incremental movement that adopts a bottom-up and inside-out approach. Specifically, we argue that, with support, early-career researchers (ECRs) from the Global South can be pollinators, spreading new knowledge production methods across ECR groups globally and scaling up to engage mid- and senior-level researchers. This is essential for the progression of better, more inclusive knowledge production worldwide.


