2.6 Management of sensitive issues

The evaluation has paid careful attention to the ethical issues as outlined by the ethical guidelines of the Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The team members have extensive experience from interviewing a variety of stakeholders and have ensured that the research is undertaken with careful consideration of ethics, including an overarching principle of ‘do no harm’. Interviews and the survey have taken place only with informed consent. The data collected have been carefully maintained and secured by the involved research institutions in adherence with internal OsloMet policies on protection and security of data. The team’s three team members have long experience from doing research on controversial issues in conflictual settings and assume a strictly neutral position if controversial issues or opinions are brought forward by interviewees.