As part of its educational responsibility the University seeks to encourage and facilitate research. Those who carry out research either sponsored by or under the aegis of the University have responsibilities in turn toward the University. To avoid any misunderstanding or confusion, this Statement of Principles sets forth certain of these responsibilities, which the University regards as of the highest importance and which researchers are requested to acknowledge in addition to obligations that they may feel toward their own careers, toward their professions as a whole, or toward the foundations or institutions that may support them.

1. The University's research and academic role is a continuing one in which many people serve for varying periods of time. Any publication which reports work done under University sponsorship or in association with it must therefore acknowledge all relevant contributions made by staff members, junior and senior, past and present, fully and justly. It is incumbent on the author to submit a copy of his/her publication to the chair/director of the department or unit who sponsored the research affiliate.

2. Several research programs of the University have been in progress for many years and depend in large part on good relationships with the local community and with the academic community both in the Middle East and abroad; much time and money have been expended in establishing and maintaining such relationships so that research might continue. The University and the foundations that have made these expenditures must be protected against any action which might undermine the good will already attained by the work of University departments or units. A researcher shall agree not to publish material considered to be harmful to the University's relations with its own local community or to the larger academic community.

3. All researchers associated with the University shall acknowledge, both as a general principle of all good research and as a particular rule in force to protect the reputation of the University, that the privacy and self-respect of individuals, communities and institutions must be respected. Empirical researchers in particular are therefore bound to repay with circumspection and tact the privilege of entering people's lives and utilizing confidential data. As part of its routine empirical research procedures, University departments and units assure the people and the leaders of a community or institution that nothing will be done or said, either during the research or in the publication of its results, that would be injurious to any individual or group. ("Injurious" in this sense means the exposure or identification of given persons or groups and/or the use of pejorative or irrelevant value- laden adjectives in print.) Whether or not the individual researcher has himself made any such assurances, he must abide by these previous agreements, since the University itself is held responsible for his conduct in any case.