What does it mean to do research imbued with a feminist commitment to justice in contexts of long-lasting conflicts? Drawing on the authors’ experience of researching everyday peace in conflict-affected parts of Myanmar, this paper explores issues around trust, obligation, and ethics arising from the relationship between researcher, research brokers, and research participants. Taking the form of a conversation between the principal researcher (an academic from and based in the Global North) and the research-broker (an activist from and based in the Global South), we together reflect on what obligations a commitment to feminist struggles impose on research and how, and in what ways, previous relationships affect research ethics and the production of knowledge. We suggest that intimacy and trust can generate new knowledge about gender and war and aid a feminist research practice attentive to positionality, power, and ethics, particularly in communities with lasting experiences of war-time trauma and insecurity.