Conflict Studies

Conflict Studies was a journal initially published, from 1969, by Brian Crozier's Current Affairs Research Services Centre, part of the London based CIA propaganda outfit Forum World Features.

The Current Affairs Research Services Centre published the first five issues of the journal, after which it was taken over by the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC), a right wing think tank which grew out of the Current Affairs Research Services Centre. In August 1970 ISC published the sixth issue of the journal. The new issue was entitled 'The Irish Tangle', and was written by Iain Hamilton a former editor of The Spectator who had headed Kern House Enterprises Ltd in London, the company which had established Forum World Features. A special notice drew attention to the new publishers. It stated: "the main object of the Institute is the systematic and comparative study of the causes and manifestations of conflict, with special but not exclusive reference to social and political unrest, urban terrorism, guerrilla war, revolutionary war and related phenomena." The Conflict Studies series was published six to ten times annual, and monthly from 1976. Until 1975 it was edited by Crozier. By 1978 ISC had published over eighty issues including Terrorism versus Liberal Democracy by Paul Wilkinson. According to an article pubished that year, interest in the journal had grown steadily and ISC enjoyed "regular subscriptions from government. departments, universities, army and police establishments, and leading commercial concerns in over sixty countries as well as individuals often influential in public life."

In December 1989 when the Institute for the Study of Conflict became the Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism the new organisation took over Conflict Studies. It ceased publication in 1999.