Focus and Scope
Journal of Peace and Gender is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that advances the study of peacebuilding and conflict transformation as plural, lived, and relational processes across diverse social, cultural, and political contexts. The journal embraces a plural understanding of peace and justice, recognising that relationships among individuals, communities, and institutions are shaped by distinct histories, value systems, and gendered experiences.
The journal provides a platform for scholarship that approaches conflict and peacebuilding as dynamic and context-specific processes rather than fixed or purely technical systems. It welcomes contributions that explore how these relationships are formed, negotiated, and transformed through everyday practices, community-based initiatives, institutional arrangements, and broader socio-political changes.
While maintaining a strong interest in feminist, intersectional, and grassroots perspectives, the journal situates these approaches within wider debates. It encourages submissions that examine how diverse understandings of peace and gender justice intersect with, complement, or challenge state-led frameworks, international policy agendas, and humanitarian interventions.
The journal invites contributions in areas including, but not limited to:
- Gendered dynamics of conflict, violence, and security
- Feminist and intersectional approaches to peacebuilding
- Transitional justice, memory, and post-conflict reconciliation
- Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agendas and policy critique
- Grassroots peace initiatives, community resilience, and everyday peace
- Gender-based violence, care work, and social reproduction in conflict settings
- Law, human rights, and gender justice
- Governance, institutions, and post-conflict state-building
- Media, narratives, and public discourse in peace and conflict
- Social movements, resistance, and struggles for justice
- Decolonial and critical approaches to peace and humanitarianism
- Knowledge systems, epistemologies, and ethics in peace research
The journal welcomes empirically grounded and theoretically engaged research, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches, as well as participatory and practice-based work that demonstrates methodological rigor.
By bringing together diverse perspectives, Journal of Peace and Gender contributes to broader scholarly conversations on how peace and conflict relations are shaped, contested, and transformed, and how pathways toward more just and sustainable futures emerge across different contexts.