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How can the study of conflict, peace, and policy evolve to better situate itself in hyperlocal ecologies? This paper includes interviews with researchers, teachers, and students of International Relations in Scotland on the role of forest and riverside walks in pedagogy and research methodology. Engaging with existing scholarship including Emma Bond's "Writing Migration Through the Body" and Halberstam's "side-by-sidedness of adjacency" I ask how walking side by side with a teacher, a student, a colleague, or an interlocutor helps thicken place and research alike, reimagining an otherwise distant research practice within skinscapes and place-based histories. In doing so, this research makes recommendations for new modes of ethically incorporating walks within the study and practice of IR as a discipline.
