Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 A Theoretical and Practical Exposition of 'Participatory' Research Methods -- Part I Participatory Research Methods in Development and Post-disaster Reconstruction -- 2 Introduction to Part I -- 3 Who Speaks For The Community? Negotiating Agency and Voice in Community-based Research in Tanzania -- 4 Poverty Assessment in Rwanda through Participatory Rural Appraisal -- 5 Participatory Approaches to Impact Assessment -- 6 Applications of Participatory Research Methods in a Post-disaster Environment -- 7 Rediscovering Traditional Knowledge for Post-disaster Reconstruction -- 8 Conclusion to Part I -- Part II Participatory Research Methods in Post-conflict Reconstruction -- 9 Introduction to Part II -- 10 Understanding Social Capital and Reconciliation in Rwanda through Participatory Methods -- 11 Door Knocking in Sierra Leone: A Necessity in Post-conflict Research -- 12 Mapping Child Soldiers' Reintegration Outcomes in Liberia: A Participatory Approach -- 13 A Participatory Approach to Ethnographic Research with Victims of Gross Human Rights Violations -- 14 Unexamined Lives: A Methodology of Women, Violence and War in Lebanon -- 15 Participatory Research in Programme Evaluation -- 16 Participatory Research Methods in Post-conflict Reconstruction Study Visits -- 17 Conclusion to Part II -- 18 Conclusion -- Index.