Now in its third decade, PRAXIS: The Fletcher Journal of Human Security provides a platform for cutting-edge research that explores the links between the theory and practice of human security. Together with the Institute for Human Security at The Fletcher School, the journal explores the intersections between the historically separate fields of humanitarianism, development, human rights, and conflict resolution.
For its 2016-2017 issue, PRAXIS invites articles from scholars and practitioners to stimulate productive dialogue on the use of technology in conflict prevention, mitigation, and resolution. Since the end of the Cold War and more noticeably in the 21st century, the world has seen many intra-state conflicts spiral along a protracted trajectory of violence and political polarization. And while the number of inter-state conflicts has dwindled, these new internal conflicts involve a variety of governments, quasi-governments, non-state armed groups, non-profit organizations, private companies, and influential individuals. Each of these actors has different capabilities and interests that may be enhanced and reconciled with recent technological advances in social media, network analysis, geographic mapping etc.
The PRAXIS editorial team is seeking research, opinion, review pieces, and notes from the field to enrich the policy world’s collective understanding of how technology is and can be used to help different actors work together across sectors and borders to prevent, limit, and respond to conflict.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, how technology interacts with:
- Efficient governance and political inclusion/exclusion in conflict zones
- Non-profit and/or cross-sector partnerships in conflict zones
- Crisis management
- New conceptions of war and the use of force
- The politics of human security
- Innovations in dealing with climate change for disaster and conflict risk reduction
Submission Guidelines:
- Research articles should be between 15-30 double-spaced pages.
- Review and opinion pieces should be between 3-5 double-spaced pages.
- Notes from the field should be no more than 8 double-spaced pages.
- Citations should be formatted as endnotes in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition.
- Please include a one-paragraph abstract and a one-paragraph bio with each piece.
- For field notes, review and opinion pieces, kindly send a confirmation email expressing your interest in a submission to fletcherpraxis@tufts.edu by Friday, December 16, 2016.
- For research articles, please submit a 150-200 word abstract and a one-paragraph bio to fletcherpraxis@tufts.edu by Friday, December 16, 2016.
- Please submit an electronic copy of your final draft in MS Word format to fletcherpraxis@tufts.edu by Friday, February 17, 2017.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact Editor-in-Chief, Ahmed Jawad, at fletcherpraxis@tufts.edu. We look forward to receiving your submissions!