- Archive- Search
- Peace & Conflict Monitor
- Links
- Guidelines for Contributors
- Editorial Announcements
- Letters & Comments
- Corrigenda
- Subscribe
March 2008
Past Editoral Announcement
April 2006 Issue N. 1
We are inebted to Robert Burns for the wording of our excuses: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” We are a little late in bringing to you our new, fully-fledged refereed on-line journal. We will be another two or three weeks in the making. However, the editorial team are convinced that keeping to timetables is an excellent discipline. We are offering, therefore, the most downloaded article from our sister ship, the Peace and Conflict Monitor, for your attention.
For those of you who have submitted articles, we will reply as soon as we can, and for those of you who are thinking of submitting articles, the sooner the better. Click on our Guidelines for Contributors on the left panel, and we look forward to hearing from you.
July 2006 Issue N. 1
In this issue, the real no 1, of the Peace and Conflict Review we bring you an article from Dr Mahmoud El Zain on what he describes as a “religiously-cloaked ethnic discourse” that has contributed to massive displacement in the Sudan.
Future issues will deal with equally problematic issues from Iraq to Ireland to the Middle East. Some of you may have seen the movie in which George Clooney played Fred Friendly who was at the heart of attacking Senator McCarthy's infringements on human rights. Fred Friendly later became head of CBS and is famous for saying it was his job, by presenting key issues to the public, "to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking." We, too, via this refereed journal would like to emulate this, at least as far as we can.
Submissions to sstander@review.upeace.org
September 2006 Issue N. 1
The struggle for power in Northern Ireland was Britain’s civil war that lasted for a quarter of a century and dubbed “the long war”. From time to time it spilled over to England with increasing ferocity with bombings in London, Birmingham and Manchester, and included a near successful attempt to wipe out the whole British cabinet in Brighton in 1984. The war is now over, but the pain remains. Much has been written on the war itself and the way it ended, but much less has been written on the uneasy aftermath. Ryan Gawn helps to fill the gap. Dealing with the past in the negotiations would have stymied the peace talks. The British government has been taking the lead, but the past weighs all too heavily on the present.
November 2006 Issue N. 1
The general view that women do not serve in combat roles, that women remain, as they do in patriarchal civil society, in supportive and subordinate roles. It is men who are violent. However, in some wartime conditions women do become combatants as they did in the resistance movements during WWII or as tank commanders in the Battle of Kursk or in a variety of combat roles during national freedom movements. In many ways, therefore, we should not be surprised that women are just as capable of violence as men, but what lies behind an acceptance of their own deaths while killing others? Katerina Standish explains some of the motivation behind Chechen and Palestine female suicide bombers in her carefully worked article this month.
March 2007 Issue N. 1
This latest article is very much in the tradition of EH Carr, the founder of International Relations and English language historian of the Russian Revolution. Maxim Barbashin argues that the failure to understand the true nature of ethno-political conflict arises from the failure of academics and commentators generally to distinguish between information and knowledge and thus failing to develop theory rather than be submerged in ideology. There is too great a tendency for donors and other agencies to set the frame of research and so prevent a real comprehension of the complexities and causal patterns that determine the course and outcomes of ethno-political conflict.
April 2007 Issue N. 1
June 2007 Issue N. 1
Long Shadows or National Pragmatism….A wise Chinese philosopher once said: if you walk a mile with history, it takes twenty minutes; if you walk without history it takes two hundred years. The more the problems of the Middle East and the Levant are discussed the more important the long shadows of history seem. Just how does one balance out the causes that have contributed to the violence in Iraq. How much is history or sectarianism or greed or grievance or a power vacuum desperately requiring filling or Arab idealism or Shi’ite revenge?
The weight that one has to give to the murder of ancient leaders has to be measured against contemporary politics and press manipulation. Perhaps, we can allocate a significant weight to unfinished business left over from the Ottoman Empire just as apologists for African violence blame, rightly perhaps, French, British, Belgian nineteenth century colonialism.
Or is the violence in Iraq thoroughly modern with the historical shadows a convenient cover? For Turkey’s part, as B.B. Coskun’s argues in her article “Turkey’s Iraq Policy on the Brink of Civil War”, has a vested interest in a united Iraq on her doorstep in order to avoid any possibility of a separate independent Kurdish state. It also happens that Turkey has the strongest, biggest and most disciplined army in the region. Instability does not augur well for the future. So far Turkey has pussy-footed around US policy in the region. That may not go on forever.
July 2007 Issue N. 1
July 2007 Issue N. 2
October 2007 Issue N. 1
ThePeace & Conflict Review is pleased to be be back online for this 2007-2008 academic year following the retirement of our former editor, Mr. Simon Stander. Thank you for all your excellent work Simon, and best of luck with your future projects.
As always, comments and submissions are welcome. Please direct all mail to editor@review.upeace.org
November 2007 Issue N. 1
December 2007 Issue N. 1
February 2008 Issue N. 1
A Publication of:
