Journal of Conflict Studies
The Journal of Conflict Studies (ISSN 1715-5673) (formerly Conflict Quarterly) was a journal of terrorism and low-intensity conflict that was first published in Canada in the Summer of 1980. It was edited by an 'executive editorial board of David Charters, Maurice Tugwell and Dominick Graham from the Centre for Conflict Studies at the University of New Brunswick. [1] It changed its name to the Journal of Conflict Studies in 1995 when the editors chose to publish the jounal annually.[2] As of 2008 it was published annually by the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, the current location of David Charters.[3]
The Journal of Conflict Studies is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary, and inter-disciplinary journal that is said to 'accept submissions from a multitude of academic backgrounds as well as area specialists, members of the military and journalists.' [4]
The journal appears to have ceased publication in 2009.
Contents
History
Funding and finances
According to the University of New Brunswick: 'The Jounal of Conflict Studies is supported by gifts received under the Third Century Fund of the University of New Brunswick and by a grant from the Canadian Department of National Defence.'[5]
Themes
The Journal of Conflict Studies states that it is issued once a year, works hard to ensure its 'dedication to the publication of scholarly research in the field of low-intensity conflict studies'. Topics Include:
- revolutionary or civil war
- guerrilla warfare
- terrorism
- counter-insurgency and counter-terror operations
- propaganda and psychological warfare
- intelligence activities
- media coverage of such conflict
- peacekeeping
- foreign/military policy
- strategic studies as they relate to the field[6]
People
Editorial Staff
- Executive Editor J. Brent Wilson | Assistant Editor & Circulation Manager Deborah Stapleford | Book Review Editor Peter J. Woolley [7]
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
G.P. Armstrong | Department of National Defence | Roger Beaumont Texas A&M University | David Charters University of New Brunswick | Anthony Clayton DeMontfort University | David Close Memorial University of Newfoundland | Richard Dale Southern Illinois University | Stuart Farson Simon Fraser University | Noemi Gal-Or Kwantlen University College | Deborah Gerner University of Kansas | Yvon Grenier St. Francis Xavier University | Michael Gunter Tennessee Technological University | Glenn Hastedt James Madison University | David Horner Australian National University | David R. Jones Pensacola Beach, FL | Edith S. Klein University of Toronto | Gordon Mace Laval University | Renée Marlin-Bennett American University | John McGarry University of Waterloo | Abraham H. Miller University of Cincinnati | J. Marc Milner University of New Brunswick | Karen Mingst University of Kentucky | Richard E. Morgan | Bowdoin College | Richard Newell University of Northern Iowa | Thomas Ofcansky US Department of Defense | David E. Schmitt Northeastern University | Amadu Sesay Abafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria | Timothy M. Shaw Dalhousie University | Harold D. Sims University of Pittsburgh | Stephen Sloan University of Oklahoma | Jennifer Morrison Taw RAND Corporation | Charles Townshend University of Keele | Grant Wardlaw Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence | Douglas L. Wheeler University of New Hampshire | James J. Wirtz US Naval Postgraduate School[8]
Affiliations
Subsidiaries
Publications
Contact details, Resources, Notes
Contact
- Address:
- Phone:
- Fax:
- Website: journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/JCS
External Resources
Notes
- ↑ CONFLICT QUARTERLY VOL. I, NO. 1 SUMMER 1980 Contents, accessed 9 January 2008
- ↑ http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/JCS/
- ↑ Gregg Centre Journal of conflict Studies, accessed 23 February 2009
- ↑ The Journal of Conflict Studies University of New Brunswick, accessed 25 November 2014
- ↑ UNB Editorial Staff, accessed 24 February 2009
- ↑ Journal of Conflict Studies
- ↑ UNB Editorial Staff, accessed 24 February 2009
- ↑ UNB Editorial Staff, accessed 24 February 2009
