Call for Papers
Atrocity Prevention Symposium:
Theory and Practice in National and Global Perspective
(to be published in 2017)
The editors of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal solicit articles for a symposium on Atrocity Prevention.
The symposium will consist of 10 to 20 short, clearly written, analytical articles between 4,000 and 7,000 words. The symposium will
be divided conceptually into four subsections. The editors welcome the submission of manuscripts in any of the following categories:
1.
National Mechanisms for atrocity prevention, or other national-level officially established bodies that include representatives
from different areas of government relevant to the prevention of atrocity crimes. GSP solicits articles that employ critical (not
simply descriptive) approaches to studying these bodies, focusing on the following National Mechanisms:
• Kenya, Kenya National Committee
• Tanzania, Tanzania National Committee
• Uganda, Uganda National Committee
• Central African Republic, National Committee (not yet established)
• Democratic Republic of Congo, National Committee (not yet established)
• Mexico, Inter-departmental Commission on International Humanitarian Law of Mexico
• Argentina, National Mechanism for the Prevention of Genocide
• Paraguay, National Commission
• United States, US Atrocity Prevention Board
• Other national-level mechanisms for atrocity prevention
2.
International and Regional Mechanism for atrocity prevention, such as: the UN Special Advisor’s Office or the International
Conference on the Great Lakes Region, African Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, Collective Security Treaty Organization, and so forth.
3.
Critical Assessments above mechanisms in #1 and #2, looking at:
• The creation, role, and position of atrocity prevention within foreign policy
• Critical assessments of the failures and successes of the national or regional mechanisms (such as analysis of how
the US Atrocity Prevention Board can better coordinate efforts within the US government, or coordinate prevention
efforts with other national and regional mechanisms)
• Analysis of atrocity prevention case studies in the last decade
• The role of non-governmental organizations and civil society groups (broadly defined) in atrocity prevention
4.
The editors welcome submissions that do not fall within the above categories, but are within the spirit of the symposium
The symposium will be published in 2017. Articles are meant to encourage research with an interdisciplinary expertise on topical
issues that can inform public policy and awareness, and to provide practitioners and professionals in the field the opportunity to
connect to an audience of scholars (and vice-versa).
Papers will be formatted according to GSP guidelines and submitted electronically through the GSP website via the “Submit Article”
link at http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/. The only exception is that the word limit will be reduced. Please alert the editors listed
below that you have submitted your article and intend the article to be considered for this symposium. After internal review by the
entire GSP editorial board, the papers will be sent for double blind external review prior to inclusion. If you have any questions,
please contact the symposium editors:
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Special Guest Editor: James Finkel, George Washington University, [email protected]
GSP Managing Editor: Douglas Irvin-Erickson, George Mason University, [email protected]
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