Journal of Peacebuilding and Development

Journal of Peacebuilding and Development: CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue. Abstracts due December 8th! For more information visit: https://mailchi.mp/6e6663e19b52/call-for-papers-for-jpd-special-issue-forb

NEW Call for Papers on Peacebuilding, Development, and Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB).
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You can find author and manuscript submission guidelines on our website and submit your abstract or full manuscript here: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/JPD

The Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (JPD) is seeking a new institutional host. Why not consider joining us and leading this innovative journal into its new era?

JPD is a peer reviewed journal published by SAGE, whose mission is to provide a forum for critical thinking and constructive action at the intersections of conflict, development and peace. Since its founding in 2002, JPD has held a unique commitment to publish at least 50% of our authors from the Global South and/or countries affected by conflict and fragility in every issue. We are deeply committed to advancing epistemological diversity and decoloniality in our subject area. Another unique dimension of our journal is that it strives to serve scholars, practitioners and policy actors, cultivating conversation and collaboration across these arenas, towards visionary but practical approaches to address contemporary challenges within the peacebuilding-development nexus.

Since our founding of JPD in 2002 the conflict landscape has evolved in complexity, incorporating fragility, violence, and natural disasters, presenting ever greater challenges for analysis, framing, and effective policy and practice responses. We anticipate that a new journal host will help JPD adapt and innovate in response to these complex, inter-related crises. While JPD rests primarily in the critical scholarly tradition, our editors and advisors recognise that inter-paradigm learning, pluralism, and synergy drive our ability as scholars and policy actors to envision and realize the transformative measures required to tackle systemic crises.

Value proposition and what we offer

Hosting JPD offers several benefits. These start with having professional impact: the journal offers you a platform and mechanism to influence the peacebuilding-development nexus scholarly and practice space. Over two decades, JPD has developed an expansive network of scholars, practitioners and policy actors who engage as readers, authors and advisors - a network that can serve the cross-fertilization of ideas and activities in your institution. Journal hosting brings notoriety for the institution, department or program, offering a collaborative space for reflection, innovation and service. It provides a platform for students and faculty in an educational setting, or program staff in a think tank or association, to gain editorial and wider professional experience.

As a journal host, you will have the support of the publisher, JPD’s founding editors, and the Advisory Board in carrying out the mission. As with most journal publishers, Sage’s services include managing the processes from submission of finalized content through production (including copyediting, layout, producing both online and print formats, and marketing). They also offer the editors (in this case the new hosts) a small annual stipend.

The founding editors (Erin McCandless and Mohammed Abu-Nimer) manage the online open access collections, as well as the advisory board, while driving business development. The international advisory board reviews articles and supports marketing and key decision-making around transitions. Moving forward, they will be regularly engaged in the production of special issues and the holding of dialogues around the content of the journal and the critical issues driving our field.

Hosting costs and arrangements

Anticipated costs for hosting the journal are focused on the staff needed to run the journal. This means an Executive Editor and other editors to support this person towards producing 3 issues per year. DIfferent formulas are feasible here, including the possibility of having more than one institutional host and associated Executive Editor. An administrator (or Managing Editor) 50% time, approximately, is needed, which can potentially be fulfilled by a graduate student. Ideally this post should be located alongside the main editor and not have too much transition of staff. If a hosting partnership is constructed (ideally with partners who have worked together), each host could produce one issue per year. While we are flexible on arrangements, we are ideally seeking expressions of interest for 5 years minimum.

JPD has had three primary hosts to date: American University’s Center for Global Peace, University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and most recently, Kennesaw State University’s School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development. We have also had joint hosting arrangements in the past, including with Africa University’s Institute for Peace, Leadership and Governance in Zimbabwe and the UN University for Peace Africa Program (UPEACE) in Ethiopia. We would welcome a co-hosting arrangement, particularly one that includes institutions based in the Global South and/or countries affected by conflict.

Please send expressions of interest (or questions) to the founding editors, Erin McCandless and Mohammed Abu-Nimer, ideally with a cover letter sharing your vision for taking the journal forward. We will be reviewing applications as they arrive but hope to finalize our decision by April 30, 2023. We will also be attending the International Studies Association, along with several of our advisory board members, if you would like to speak in person with us. Our goal is to have a new host in place by September 15, 2023. This will allow time for a transition period with the existing host - KSU - whose hosting arrangement finishes at the end of 2023.

This week’s Article Spotlight: Disasters as Ambivalent Multipliers: Influencing the Pathways from Disaster to Conflict Risk and Peace Potential Through Disaster Risk Reduction by Laura E. R. Peters

Article Abstract: Disasters, including disaster-related activities, have been shown to precipitate, intensify, and lengthen violent conflicts, yet disasters have also demonstrated the potential to reduce violent conflict, encourage cooperation, and build peace. Disaster-conflict and disaster-peace literature has sought to establish causal and linear relationships, but research has not explored with the same rigour the causal mechanisms linking these phenomena in long-term processes of social-political change and how they are influenced by human actions and inactions. This research fills this gap by drawing on in-depth interviews with disaster risk reduction (DRR) professionals in 25 disaster- and conflict-affected countries in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to analyse the pathways leading from disasters and disaster-related activities to violent conflict and peace. The findings highlight how these pathways can be deliberately swayed toward peace potential through DRR.

Laura E. R. Peters is an interdisciplinary geographer and peace and conflict scholar who researches how deeply divided societies build knowledge about, cope with, and act upon contemporary social and environmental changes and challenges, including those related to climate change, disasters, and health.

Disasters as Ambivalent Multipliers: Influencing the Pathways from Disaster to Conflict Risk and Peace Potential Through Disaster Risk Reduction - Laura E. R. Peters, 2022 Disasters, including disaster-related activities, have been shown to precipitate, intensify, and lengthen violent conflicts, yet disasters have also demonstrate...

This week’s Article Spotlight: Legacies of Political Violence and Voter Behavior in Colombia by Shauna N. Gillooly

Article Abstract: Do legacies of politically motivated violence influence future or current electoral behaviour? How so? This article considers the question of the impact of violence on voter behaviour, specifically on elections that centred on issues of peace in contexts of long-running civil conflict. This study theorises the ways in which decades of violence, and continued contexts of unevenly distributed violence during elections, impacts current electoral behaviour. This article explores whether continued exposure to violence makes voters more or less conciliatory in their political preferences as expressed through electoral institutions. To do this, the article utilises the second round of voting in the 2014 and 2018 Colombian presidential elections and the 2016 plebiscite vote on the peace accords with the leftist guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, along with a data set that records politically motivated violent events perpetrated by insurgents, counterinsurgents, and the state forces at a municipal level from 1991 to 2012.

Shauna N. Gillooly is a PhD Candidate in the department of political science at the University of California, Irvine and a visiting scholar at Instituto PENSAR at Pontifica Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Her research focuses on peacebuilding and transitional justice in contexts of continued political violence or civil conflict.

Legacies of Political Violence and Voter Behavior in Colombia - Shauna N. Gillooly, 2022 Do legacies of politically motivated violence influence future or current electoral behaviour? How so? This article considers the question of the impact of viol...

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Don't miss our latest Call for Papers on Climate and the HDP Nexus. See the full call here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8ube9x

You can find author and manuscript submission guidelines on our website and submit your abstract or full manuscript here: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/JPD

CALL FOR PAPERS- Special Issue on Transforming Our Common Crisis: Climate Change and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus for the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development - https://tinyurl.com/2p8ube9x

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This week’s Article Spotlight: COVID-19 and Adapting to the New Normal: Lessons Learned for Peacebuilding by Serena Clark and Claudio Alberti

“The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2; Covid-19) a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Unlike preceding highly contagious diseases that brought the threat of global instability this century, such as SARS-CoV, Zika virus (ZIKV), Swine flu (H1N1), and Avian flu (H5N1), Covid-19, governments across the world introduced strict measures and interruptions to daily life incomparable in living memory. Overnight, countries closed schools, higher education institutions, workplaces and shut down borders – this left people scrambling to adapt, including those implementing peacebuilding interventions. In this unprecedented situation, peacebuilding organisations have worked, responded, and adapted to the new normal. These new dynamics have created both challenges and opportunities for peacebuilding. This article documents the experiences of peacebuilders during the pandemic, making sense of changing conditions, challenges and opportunities they faced. It explores two key questions. How have peacebuilding organisations adapted during COVID-19? Has COVID-19 contributed to the move to local ownership of peacebuilding or localisation? It addresses these questions by engaging with peacebuilding organisations across different geographical regions through an online survey and key informant interviews. The main results focus on localisation, digital adaptation and funding strategy and administration challenges.”
Serena Clark works as a postdoctoral researcher at Maynooth University and is a research consultant for the International Organization of Migration, United Nations. She holds a doctorate in international peace studies and conflict resolution from Trinity College Dublin, where she was a Rotary International Global Peace Scholarship recipient. She has published on topics related to immigration policy, visual methodologies, post-conflict Northern Ireland and the impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality. Her research interests include peacebuilding, immigration, displaced populations, and visual methodologies.
Claudio Alberti is a PhD candidate in International Peace Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College in Dublin and he currently works as program office in the Peacebuilding Analysis and Impact team of swisspeace. Previously to join swisspeace Claudio worked in progressively responsible capacities for different UN entities in Central and South Asia, and Subsaharan Africa. His research interests include adaptive peacebuilding and DME for Peace.

COVID-19 and Adapting to the New Normal: Lessons Learned for Peacebuilding - Serena Clark, Claudio Alberti, 2021 The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2; Covid-19) a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Unlike preceding highly contagious diseas...

Do you visit the recent Most Read section on our homepage? Here you can find articles such as: Institutions and Pastoralist Conflicts in Africa: A Conceptual Framework. Revisit or discover this piece to learn how institutional change, institutional pluralism, and institutional meanings shape pastoralist conflicts in Africa.

Institutions and Pastoralist Conflicts in Africa: A Conceptual Framework - Dennis Amego Korbla Penu, Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo, 2021 Pastoralist conflicts are important global development outcomes, especially in Africa. Analysing relevant literature on this phenomenon, we identify “institutio...

Have you had the chance to review the Resources for Volume 16(2)? JPD's Resources are curated for each issue and can be found online at

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This week’s Article Spotlight: Exploring Kurdish Islamist Civil Society and Conflict in Turkey (2015–2018) By Burcu Ozcelik

“This article addresses the role and impact of religious civil society in situations of armed conflict through a case study of Kurdish Islamist civil society organisations and activists in Turkey. The focus is on the period following the collapse of the peace process and resurgence of violence in mid-2015 between Turkish security forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkêrên Kurdistanê). Based on 40 in-depth interviews conducted in the city of Diyarbakir, I identify three main challenges to the effectiveness of religious civil society in peacebuilding processes: (1) relations with the state, (2) legacy and relationship with institutional violence, and (3) advocacy and representation of community needs. This article shows how ethnicity and Islam are shifting, contingent interactions in the construction of Kurdish identity, especially in response to violence. Although the public expression of pro-Kurdish rights claims altered under a securitisation rubric during this period, the demand for a peaceful settlement to the conflict transcends ideological and social differences across many Kurds.“

Burcu Ozcelik is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. She received her PhD from the Department of Politics and International Studies, where she was subsequently a Teaching Fellow in Conflict, Peacebuilding and the Politics of the Middle East (2015-2017). Her current book project examines women’s right-wing political activism, political Islam and the gendered response to the rise of populist religious nationalism across many parts of the global polity.

Exploring Kurdish Islamist Civil Society and Conflict in Turkey (2015–2018) - Burcu Ozcelik, 2021 This article addresses the role and impact of religious civil society in situations of armed conflict through a case study of Kurdish Islamist civil society org...