Deadline- 10 Jan 2013
UNICEF & University of Sussex, and Visiting Editor: Dr. Mario Novelli are inviting call for papers Volume 8 Number 3, The Role of Social Services in Peacebuilding, which is to be published in December 2013. JPD is a tri-annual refereed journal providing a forum for the sharing of critical thinking and constructive action on issues at the intersections of conflict, development, and peace. JPD aims to develop theorypractice and South-North dialogues, for egrounding qualitative methodologies that highlight the micro, hidden impacts of dominant policies and practices. This special issue will endeavor to capture and examine critical topics and questions on the role of social services in peacebuilding.
The provision of social services such as education, health (including water and sanitation) and nutrition, and food security are central to notions of human security and development, and can provide a vehicle for building state legitimacy, promoting social cohesion, reconciliation and building trust; Despite the potential importance of social services in delivering key peacebuilding objectives they have largely remained marginal to the dominant peacebuilding model that prioritises security, democracy promotion and the creation of markets.
Some formatting guidelines are as follows-
- Format: All articles submitted to the Journal of Peacebuilding & Development must be typed singlespaced using Times New Roman, 12 pt. The article must be typed on word-processing software, preferably MS Word 6 or later. If applicant send in WordPerfect 5.1 or WordPerfect 8, please make sure files are MS Word-compatible.
- Articles versus briefings: Articles address critical themes or case analyses and must be contextualized within the scholarly and policy literature and existing debates on peacebuilding and development. Articles are 7,000 words at most, including endnotes and bibliographical references. Briefings are practice or policy reviews on current events and topical issues that do not exceed 2,500 words unless editors suggest otherwise. They do not need to refer to the literature.
- Editorial style: (punctuation, capitalisation, etc.)
- Referencing: Please use the Harvard System of Referencing but use single quotation marks instead of double. Use parenthetical referencing in text (author date:page), e.g. (Moyo 2000:96). For bibliographical referencing, use the order: author, date, title, place, publisher. An example: Moyo, F. 2000, Post-Colonial Zimbabwe, Harare: Mason Press. The bibliographic references should be listed alphabetically and be consistent in style.
- Endnotes– Should be kept to a minimum – 10 at the most – and placed at the end of the article.
- For full length articles only, please bold up to 10 ‘stand alone’ phrases, preferably full sentences which will be highlighted in the final publication as ‘pullouts’. They should reflect applicant’s original contributions or simply make a telling point. Try to distribute them fairly evenly throughout the text. Ideally they should link peacebuilding and development and highlight key points in the logic and flow of the article.
- Biography: Include a biography of two or three short sentences to introduce applicant, and an abstract of no more than 100 words.
- Diagrams, figures, maps and other graphic material: should be placed contiguous to the matching text and submitted as a separate file for attachment in .jpeg, .eps or .TIFF format. Captions should be provided, and preferred placement of figures indicated in the manuscript.
- Copyright of articles published in the Journal rests with JPD.
Authors are advised to send abstracts for review first. Abstracts should be submitted.
The Journal of Peacebuilding and Development provides a forum for the sharing of critical thinking and constructive action on issues at the intersections of conflict, development and peace. The publication endeavours to capture and examine critical peacebuilding and development topics and questions that challenge our era, including–
- Development policies, processes and outcomes: implications for conflict and peace
- Integrated and strategic approaches and policy frameworks for building peace and human development
- Reconciliation and justice
- People-centered development in divided societies
- Economic governance, human rights and human security
- The economics of war and peace
- Natural resources and peacebuilding
- Post-conflict economic recovery and sustaining peace
- Identities and relationships in conflict and development
- Environmental justice and rights-based approaches to development
- Humanitarian and development aid: coherence and coordination for peacebuilding
- Conflict-sensitive policy making, programming and M&E
- Poverty elimination, violence prevention and building a structure of peace
- Cross-cutting themes: power and empowerment; the role of culture; the role of women, youth, minorities and other marginalised groups; actors and partnerships for action
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