Peace Review

Peace Review is one of the most influential of international research journals in the growing field of peace and conflict studies. The journal is published quarterly and is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal.

The journal aims to focus on "current issues and controversies that underlie the promotion of a more peaceful world" (journal website). This is a deliberately wide scope, and thus one can find within the journal a wide range of articles on issues relevant for peace, including articles dealing with peace and conflict, education, development, ecology, discrimination, human rights, and culture and ethnicity.

The journal was commenced in 1992 by John Harris at Stanford University, although the editorship was soon assumed by Robert Elias at the University of San Francisco. The current editorial board includes eminent peace researchers, such as Elise M. Boulding and Johan Galtung. The journal currently receives funding from the Catholic Social Thought Project at the University of San Francisco and the Jesuit Foundation.

As often is the case with scholarly journals, the journal has undergone name changes. The full name of the journal was previously "Peace Review: A Transnational Quarterly", although the full name of the journal is now "Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice," reflecting the way that social justice concerns are now generally regarded as intrinsic to peace.

In 2000 the journal was awarded the Project Censored Award and the journal is currently a Utne Media Award finalist.

One of the specific aspects of the journal is the transnational readership, in that the journal is distributed to more than 40 countries. Thus the journal aims to avoid speaking with the voice of any particular national culture or politics. Another prominent aspect of the journal is that it aims to reach an informed yet non-specialist readership. Thus the journal attempts to publish accessible and relatively short essays, as free as possible from specialist jargon.

The journal abstracted in most political and social science abstracts.

References

Peace Review journal website: <>

Taylor and Francis website for Peace Review: <>