Aims & Scope

International Journal of Peace and Conflict Research (IJPCR) is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal publishing original scholarship on the causes, dynamics, prevention, management, transformation, and resolution of conflict, as well as the conditions and institutions that support sustainable peace. The journal provides a forum for theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous, and empirically grounded research across peace and conflict studies and related fields.

IJPCR welcomes contributions that advance conceptual, theoretical, empirical, or methodological debates concerning peace, conflict, violence, security, and conflict-affected societies. The journal has a global scope and encourages research that connects local, national, regional, and international processes.

The journal welcomes research on topics including, but not limited to:

  • causes and dynamics of armed conflict, political violence, and interstate and intrastate conflict;
  • conflict prevention, management, transformation, and resolution;
  • mediation, negotiation, ceasefires, peace agreements, and peace processes;
  • peacekeeping, peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction, and statebuilding;
  • transitional justice, reconciliation, human rights, and the rule of law;
  • diplomacy, governance, international and regional organizations, and conflict-related institutions;
  • humanitarian crises, civilian protection, forced displacement, and the responsibility to protect;
  • ethnicity, religion, identity, inequality, and natural-resource-related conflict;
  • gender, youth, civil society, social movements, and community-based approaches to peace;
  • climate, environmental change, and resource governance where they have a clear relationship to peace and conflict; and
  • media, communication, information environments, and digital technologies in conflict and peace processes.

IJPCR welcomes theoretical, empirical, comparative, and interdisciplinary research using qualitative, quantitative, mixed, or other appropriate methodological approaches. Single-case studies are also welcome where they make a clear contribution to wider scholarly debates.

The journal publishes Research Articles, Review Articles, and Short Communications. Submissions should demonstrate a clear contribution to the study of peace and conflict and should engage directly with relevant scholarly literature. Manuscripts in which peace or conflict is only incidental to the principal research question fall outside the journal’s scope.