Urgent Call for Briefings and Articles - North Africa Social and Political Change and the Impact on Migrant Communities – for the Africa Peace and Conflict Journal, published by the UN Mandated University for Peace, Africa Programme
The Africa Peace and Conflict Journal is seeking articles for its next issue that relate to North Africa's social and political change and its impact on migrant communities.
Particularly, we are interested compositions covering recent practice and policy toward forced migrants in North African countries in 2011. We will publish quality academic work providing discourse on North Africa, including but not limited to analyses of the causes, the probable outcomes of social/political change as pertains to migrants or migration policy, impacts of recent events on the mental, health and social wellbeing of migrants in host countries, and the impact of returning
migrant communities to their home countries with a special focus on Sub Saharan Africa.
There are two possibilities for contributions: articles (in-depth studies of 7,000 words), and briefings (summaries of policy/practice of 2,000-3,000 words). Please see below for details. If you desire to submit, please contact apcjeditor@upeace.org or asstedapcj@upeace.org. The deadline is 15 April 2011; your submissions are encouraged.
Submissions:
Articles and case analysis-critical case studies or thematic discussion and analysis of topical peace and conflict themes (7,000 words maximum, including endnotes; abstract, 150 words or less).
Briefings/practice-training or intervention strategies, outcomes and impacts, policy review and analysis, country situational updates, and so on (2,000-3000 words maximum).
We will also accept Resources-reports, upcoming conferences and workshops, notices of new books and videos, e-communications, and Web sites that link peace and conflict studies (150 words maximum); documents, declarations, communiqués, and other relevant nongovernmental or multilateral organizational statements (1,000 words maximum).
Please send all replies to: apcjeditor@upeace.org or asstedapcj@upeace.org
Catherine A. Nelson
Assistant Managing Editor
Africa Peace & Conflict Journal
UPEACE Africa Programme
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel: + 251-11-618-0991
Fax: + 251-11-618-0993
More information here.
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