Peace Research: Spotlighting 100 Journals Related to Peace and Conflict Studies

Peacebuilding is a term with multiple meanings and interpretations, depending on the contest with which it is being used. For some, peacebuilding entails processes geared towards eliminating the obstacles to sustainable peace by decreasing the prospects for physical and structural violence. Peacebuilding can also mean working towards the creating of grassroots institutions that can help in strengthening civil society, while making the eruption of violence less probable. Peacebuilding however entails knowledge gotten from almost all disciplines and practice from nearly all professions.

The origin of peace research dates back in history to the various religious and ethical debates on peace disseminated across world traditions. However, the first scientific/western works on peace began after the eruption of the First World war, and was closely associated with the appearance of organised peace movements such as the British Quakers and U.S Mennonites. These movements played a crucial role in advocacy for pacifism and antimilitarism. The atrocities of the Second World War and the perils of a global nuclear confrontation also gave rise to the first serious attempts at creating institutional structures responsible for peace studies. The introduction of peace research as a well-defined discipline, interdiscipline, or movement can however be traced to the 1950s, though the exact year differ amongst peace researchers and practitioners.

In this article, I will be providing a list of some journals that you can look into when doing research related to peace and conflict studies This record is by no means exhaustive and is not arranged in order of significance. I hope you find it helpful. If you know of others not mentioned, you can also include them in the comment section.

Journals

1. ACCORD: An International Review of Peace Initiatives
2. Africa Peace and Conflict Journal
3. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review (ACPR)
4. African Journal of Conflict Resolution
5. African Journal of International Affairs and Development
6. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations
7. African Security Review
8. Asian Journal of Peacebuilding
9. Canadian Journal of Development Studies
10. Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution (CJCR)
11. Civil Wars
12. Conflict and Communication Online
13. Conflict and Society
14. Conflict Management and Peace Science
15. Conflict Resolution Quarterly
16. Conflict, Security & Development
17. Cooperation and Conflict
18. Critical Studies on Security
19. Culture of Peace Online Journal (COPOJ)
20. Defence and Peace Economics
21. Development in Practice
22. Disasters
23. Dispute Resolution Journal
24. Ethics and Global Politics
25. Ethnic and Racial Studies
26. Ethnopolitics
27. Fellowship
28. Global Change, Peace & Security
29. Global Journal of Peace Research and Praxis
30. Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations
31. Human Rights Quarterly
32. Ibadan Journal of Peace & Development
33. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
34. Immigrants & Minorities
35. In Factis Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice
36. International Affairs
37. International Feminist Journal of Politics
38. International Journal of Conflict and Violence
39. International Journal of Conflict Management
40. International Journal of Development and Conflict
41. International Journal of Humanities and Peace
42. International Journal of Intercultural Relations
43. International Journal of Peace and Development Studies
44. International Journal of Peace Studies (IJPA)
45. International Journal of Transitional Justice
46. International Journal on World Peace
47. International Peacekeeping
48. International Security
49. Interreligious Insight: A Journal of Dialogue and Engagement
50. Journal for Peace and Justice Studies
51. Journal for the Institute for Justice and International Relations
52. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research
53. Journal of Borderlands
54. Journal of Conflictology
55. Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR)
56. Journal of Contemporary Religion
57. Journal of Ecumenical Studies
58. Journal of Global Peace and Conflict
59. Journal of Global Security Studies
60. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
61. Journal of Peace Education (JPE)
62. Journal of Peace Research (JPR)
63. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (JPD)
64. Journal of Political Power
65. Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace
66. Journal of Research in Peace, Gender and Development
67. Journal of Resistance Studies
68. Kujenga Amani (Building Peace)
69. Medicine, Conflict & Survival
70. Minerva: Women and War
71. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research
72. Nonviolent Change Journal
73. Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution (OJPCR)
74. Peace & Change
75. Peace & Conflict Review
76. Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS)
77. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
78. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
79. Peace Prints
80. Peace Research Abstracts Journal
81. Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies
82. Peace Review
83. Peace, Conflict & Development
84. Peacebuilding
85. Religions
86. Review of International Studies
87. Security Dialogue
88. Social Justice
89. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
90. Studies in Interreligious Dialogue
91. The International Journal of Restorative Justice
92. The Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict
93. The Journal of Peace Psychology
94. The Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution
95. The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution
96. Third World Quarterly
97. World Affairs: A Journal of Ideas and Debate
98. World Arbitration and Mediation Report
99. World Politics: A Quarterly Journal of International Relations
100. Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict Transformation

References

Young, N.J. (2010). Ed. The oxford international encyclopaedia of peace. Vol 3. New York: Oxford University Press.