Source: Africa Peace and Conflict Journal
The Africa Peace and Conflict Journal seeks to provide a vehicle for African scholars, and those focusing on Africa, to publish their views on issues of peace and conflict affecting the continent. The APCJ deals with peace and conflict issues from a multi-disciplinary and distinctly African perspective.history, sociology, political science, media studies, law, etc. are invited to submit papers, book reviews and briefings for publication. The APCJ will endeavor to publish articles reflecting a diversity of topics and a diversity of approaches.

 Researchers from any discipline peace and conflict studies, international relations,

The theme for June, 2012 APCJ issue is Governance and Security in Africa.

This broad theme seeks to cover areas including but not limited to:

Elections

Corruption

Good Governance

Regional Integration

Human Rights

Public Policy and other related governance issues.

Papers should be 7,000 words maximum and be critical case studies and/or thematic discussions and analyses of topical governance and security themes. Book reviews should be 1,500 words maximum and briefings should be 2,000 words maximum, there will be a preference for reviews of decisive works that have transformed global thinking on African peace and conflict in the past thirty years. It is hoped that these reviews and briefings will serve to address the growing demand for research on the continent. Papers with a strong POLICY FOCUS will be given HIGH PRIORITY for this issue.

The aim of the APCJ 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 engages with one another on issues relating to continental peace and security. Papers, reviews and briefings 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 recognized and references provided in footnotes.

Articles must conform to the Guide for Contributors and may be submitted to

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