African Conflict and Peace Review: Call for Papers

deadline 31 May 2006

The Africa Programme of the University for Peace is launching during this year a new academic journal dealing with conflict and peace issues from a multi-disciplinary, and distinctly African perspective. The African Conflict and Peace Review will provide a vehicle for African scholars, and those focussing on Africa, to publish their views on issues of conflict and peace affecting the continent.

Researchers from any discipline – political science, media studies, law, sociology, etc – are invited to submit articles for publication. The Review will endeavour to publish articles reflecting a diversity of topics and a diversity of approaches. The ideal article should be between 5 000 and 7 500 words and, at least during the initial years, there will be a preference for introductory and general articles, although some outstanding articles dealing with issues in more depth will also be considered. It is hoped that a significant number of articles published in the Review will be of such a nature that they can be prescribed in undergraduate as well as postgraduate courses in African universities.

The aim of the Review is to make Africa’s voice on the pivotal issue of peace and conflict on the continent heard, and to help ensure that the scholarly community in Africa engage with one another on issues relating to continental peace and security.

The Review will appear once a year in 2006, and twice a year thereafter. For the first issue however, articles must be submitted by 31 May 2006. Articles can be submitted on a continuous basis, and will be peer reviewed. The focus will be on quality, originality and relevance, and engagement with the scholarly literature on the topic addressed. All sources should be recognised and references provided in footnotes. Book reviews are also welcome.

Articles must conform to the Guide for Contributors, annexed to this document, and may be submitted to [email protected]

To subscribe, please contact:

African Conflict and Peace Review
UPEACE Africa Programme
C/O Centre for Human Rights
Faculty of Law
University of Pretoria
South Africa
0002
Tel: +27 12 420 4948
Fax: +27 12 362 5125
[email protected]