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Call for Papers

Strife Journal & Blog: Fourth round of Call for Papers for January 2021

December 5, 2020 by Bryan Strawser

Strife is pleased to announce the opening of the fourth round of Call for Papers for 2020, with a deadline for all papers of 03 January 2021.

Strife publishes articles on the theme of conflict, broadly defined. Submissions may include studies of conflict in history, art and media, of the relationship between war and state, of the interrelation of war and society, analyses of strategy, operations and military tactics, diplomacy and international relations, as well as more narrowly defined subjects. There is no restriction as to period or geographical focus.

Strife Journal – Call for Papers

Articles should be between 4000–5000 words and include an abstract of 100 words. Submitted articles must meet the outlined submission guidelines. Articles that do not meet referencing and formatting guidelines risk being rejected for publication.

See our full call graphics with additional details at the bottom of this post. Download our full call pack as a PDF here.

Please email submissions to journal.submissions@strifeblog.org.

Strife Blog – Call for Papers

Aside from our general call for papers, we also have blog series on four exciting topics. All blog series articles should be 1000-1200 words long and emailed to blog.coordinating.editor@strifeblog.org.

The series topics are as follows:

– ‘Grand Strategy of Middle Powers’ – China and America are already heavily discussed. But what about Japan or Brazil? Where do smaller, but no less important, players fit on the grand strategic stage?

– ‘Nuclear weapons and international security: the outlook for 2040’ – do you want to explore the political and technological future of nuclear armament? Now’s your chance!

– ‘Berber identities and conflicts in post-colonial North Africa’ – the Berber people sit at the centre of politics and conflict across much of North Africa. This is a great opportunity to analyse the region through this important lens.

– ‘Caribbean maritime security’ – the Caribbean isn’t as well studied as the Horn of Africa or the South China Sea, but that doesn’t make it any less interesting, or vital to the future of the Americas.

See our full call graphics with additional details at the bottom of this post. Download our full call pack as a PDF here.

If you have an idea on any of these themes, or other aspects of conflict, do reach out and our editorial team would be happy to discuss possibilities. We look forward to receiving your submissions!

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Strife Blog – Call for Submissions

November 9, 2020 by Strife Staff

 

Last year, the Strife Blog published over sixty submissions as well as three dedicated series,  across a range of topics dealing with human conflict, broadly defined. Most recently, articles published on the Strife Blog dealt with intelligence oversight in the British Parliament to movements for political participation in West Papua. From pieces focused on localised conflict and from the field reporting, to debates on grand strategy and questions on the new World Order, Strife Blog also publishes interviews with academics, experts, specialists, and artists.

Conflict may be the continuation of politics by other means, but it is so much more than just that. That is why we especially value diverse perspectives on global issues – conflict is deeply unpredictable, so avoiding tunnel vision is crucial to providing relevant analysis. Strife Blog is open to submissions from analytical pieces on current affairs to engagements and reflections on history. We also welcome submissions of book, event, film, and exhibition reviews as well as interviews across all themes related to conflict.

Our articles are between 1200 and 1500 words, with a short bibliography and an image to go with the text. With both readership and contributors spanning both the academic and policy worlds, we engage in both the theoretical and practical. So, whether you are a first-time writer or an experienced veteran, our editorial team is here to help, providing comments and suggestions throughout your article. At Strife, editors do not dictate changes from on high, but rather work alongside you to refine your argument.

If you’re interested, our contact address remains open throughout the year – blog.submissions@strifeblog.org.

For any general questions, you can contact the Managing Editor at blog@strifeblog.org.

 

We’re looking forward to your submissions!

 

 

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Strife Journal: Fourth Call for Papers for 2020

October 9, 2020 by Strife Staff

Strife is pleased to announce the opening of the fourth round of Call for Papers for 2020.

Strife publishes articles on the theme of conflict, broadly defined. Submissions may include studies of conflict in history, art and media, of the relationship between war and state, of the interrelation of war and society, analyses of strategy, operations and military tactics, diplomacy and international relations, as well as more narrowly defined subjects. There is no restriction as to period or geographical focus.

Articles should be between 4000–5000 words and include an abstract of 100 words. Submitted articles must meet the outlined submission guidelines, articles that do not meet referencing and formatting guidelines risk being rejected for publication.

If you are interested in submitting an article for publication in 2020 please submit your paper to the following email address: journal.submissions@strifeblog.org by 24 October.

Strife is committed to working with its contributors throughout the publishing process should you have any queries or wish to discuss a potential piece for publication please contact our editorial team at the above address. Papers are accepted on a rolling basis.

We look forward to receiving your submissions,

Strife Journal

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Call for Papers – Strife Series on Forgotten Wars

June 18, 2020 by Strife Staff

 

Strife blog is pleased to announce the call for contributions to its ‘Forgotten Wars’ Series.

 

This series is looking to publish on a range of topics on the relationship between terrorism, conventional warfare, and conflict spaces, the themes could include but are not limited to:

  • Counterterrorism and defence industry/production
  • Area and conflict case studies
  • Conflict entrenchment
  • Counterterrorism/counter-extremism and humanitarian action
  • Strategy and asymmetric engagement
  • Issues surrounding law and use of force against terrorism in conflict zones

 

There is no restriction as to period or geographical focus. Articles should be around 1000-1200 words in length and meet with all of the submission guidelines. Articles will be subject to a review by the Series Editor and the Blog Managing Editor prior to acceptance to the series articles that do not meet referencing and formatting guidelines risk being rejected for publication.

 

If you are interested in submitting an article for publication, or have an idea or query you wish to discuss, please contact our editorial team at: blog@strifeblog.org The deadline for expressions of interest is 20th July 2020.

 

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Call for Papers – KSLR-Strife Joint Edition

March 19, 2018 by Strife Staff

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Update – Deadline extended

 

As the two-leading student-led peer-reviewed academic journals at King’s College London, the King’s Student Law Review and Strife are pleased to announce the joint publication of a special edition under the overarching theme of ‘Law and War’. We will now be accepting submissions for this joint edition.

Submissions must be relevant to the subjects that relate to the intersection between ‘Law and War’. This overarching theme encompasses a vast range of topics such as challenging the effectiveness of “Jus in bello” in light of the war on terror, “rogue states”, the historical origins of the laws of conventional warfare, and the legality of Private Military Companies and the effectiveness of Nuclear Arms Control and Non-Proliferation agreements and treaties.

All articles must be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. Articles must comply with Oxford Referencing style (and by extension OSCOLA for legal references and case notes). A simplified version of this referencing style has been included in the Submission guidelines attached below.

If you are interested in submitting an article for this exciting joint publication, please send an abstract as well as the required information (outlined below) to the following email address: kslr.strife.jointedition@gmail.com

 

Required Information 

– Title of the article, set in bold, ranged left and unjustified.

– Name of the author or authors directly below the title, followed by institution affiliation, if applicable.

– Five or six keywords.

– Abstract of around 350 words

 

Update: We will be accepting submissions until Monday, the 30th April 2018. If you have any further enquiries, please contact kslr.strife.jointedition@gmail.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Best,

The King’s Student Law Review and Strife

 

 


 

Submission Guidelines

 

1. Content

2. General Formatting

3. Spelling and Formatting Details

4. Referencing Style: Oxford Referencing & OSCOLA

  


 

1. Content

– All articles should be vaguely related to the intersection between ‘Law and War’. Both the terms ‘law’ and ‘war’ may be defined in a flexible manner.

– Accordingly, ‘law’ does not merely refer to the notion of Jus ad bellum (public international law referring to acceptable justifications to engage in war) and Jus in bello (the limits to acceptable wartime conduct, also known as international humanitarian law). ‘Law’ also covers international treaties, legal instruments, and conventions more generally, as well as notions of justice.

– Similarly, ‘war’ more generally refers to human conflict, broadly defined. Thus, submissions may include studies of conflict and law in history, for example, or the impact of law in the causes, conduct, consequences, resolution, and/or prevention of conflict.

– There is no restriction as to time period or geographical focus for both themes. We will accept all submissions that are relevant to the overarching theme of ‘Law and War’. 

 

2. General Formatting 

– Final submissions should contain a finalised, fully formatted text, with all corrections, insertions, and/or deletions ‘accepted’, the comment bubbles removed, and all underlinings by font or colour, as well as all editorial markings of any kind, on the margins or elsewhere eliminated to leave the text as it should appear in the publication, in its final, clean form.

– The text should be double-spaced, with the margins on both sides set to 3cm. The preferred fonts are Book Antiqua or Sabon. The preferred font size is 12 for the main text and 10 for footnotes.

– Roman, bold, and italic type can be used, but use of typeface and size should be consistent throughout the paper.

– Capitals should be used only where they are to appear in the finished text.

– The text should be ranged left and unjustified, with no hyphenation.

– Indents, underlining, and tabs should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Chapter/section headings should be ranged left and in italics.

– Paragraphs (and chapter headings, where applicable) should be separated by a full single carriage return (not just simple paragraph spacing as in the default MSWord2007 formatting).

– Footnotes should be ranged left, separated from the text by a footnote separator and have no indents.

– There should be only one space between words and only one space after any punctuation.

– Please do not include headers or footers, except normal numeration of pages.

– Please use prefers single speech marks for quotations, and double speech marks for quotations within quotations.

 

3. Spelling and Formatting Details

– We prefer UK spellings for all articles, wherever the author is based. US spelling should be edited accordingly, excluding names of US organisations where the spelling should be retained. Thus, for example ‘defence’ (UK spelling) is the preferred form, but ‘US Department of Defense’ (in its original, US spelling).

– We prefer ‘First World War’ to ‘World War I’, and ‘Second World War’ to ‘World War II’.

– We prefer dates (including ‘last visited/accessed’ references) to be written as ‘1 January 2000’, not ‘January 1, 2000’ or other formats.

– We prefer ‘nineteenth century’, to ’19thcentury’ or ‘XIX century’.

– Spellings in quoted texts should not be altered. If they are obviously incorrect, insert [sic] after the controversial spelling.

– Imported foreign terms and expressions in Latin should be italicised where appropriate.

– Quotations inside a narrative sentence should close with a full stop after the speech marks. Sentences which finish inside a quotation should be punctuated in the normal way, followed by speech marks. For example: Jill said, ‘it was a nice day’. BUT Jill said, ‘it is now raining. It was a nice day.’

– Reference signs (numbers or, where appropriate, asterisks) should always follow, not precede punctuation marks in the text.

– We prefer pages to be denoted as follows: ‘p.’ for a specific page; ‘pp.’ for several pages divided by commas, or a page range. (For example: ‘p. 1’, ‘pp. 1, 5, 23’ and ‘pp. 1-23’).

– When citing a source, please add the relevant page(s) or page range. These can only be omitted in cases of references to unipage online materials or in cases where the author is referring to the work as a whole or suggesting further reading on a (sub)topic.

– In references to journal articles, Strifeprefers ‘Vol. 1, No. 1’ to ‘vol. 1, no. 1’ or to ‘1:1’.

– Titles of books, articles and other sources should be capitalised. For example: William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000, notWilliam H. McNeill, The pursuit of power: technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000

– In footnotes, titles of books, articles and other sources should be written out in full upon first mention, with the exception of excessively long book titles (usually from the Late Medieval and Renaissance periods), where a shortened version of the title would be acceptable.

– The number of the cited edition (6th/4th/ 12th edition) should be included in the reference only if the mention carries special significance, for example to highlight differences between editions or underscore the multiplicity of editions itself.

– All footnotes referring to a particular place within a source, should include relevant page number(s) or page range. This is unnecessary if reference is made to a source as a whole, for example when suggesting further reading.

– All references to online material should be given with the url in full, and accompanied by the date they were last accessed in parentheses.

– Westrongly discourage the rising modern practice of spontaneous acronym-making. Established acronyms (CIA; KGB; NATO; BBC; CNN; RT) are the norm and need little explanation, but authors should refrain from using acronyms where these are not widely established or remain limited for inside use (RHUL for Royal Holloway University of London; SJ/SB for Strife Journal/Blog, GWoT for the Global War on Terror, etc).

– Strife prefers USA and U.S. (not U.S.A. and US); USSR (not U.S.S.R.); and UK (not U.K.).

– ‘Ibid.’ should always be followed by a full stop, as it is an abbreviation.

– All references should be presented as footnotes, not endnotes or in-text parenthetical notes. Care should be taken to retain consistency in the reference style throughout the submitted work in accordance with the present guidelines

 

4. Referencing Style

 a) General References

 

– This publication follows a customised version of Oxford notes format for footnotes and Bibliography/references.

– Legal references must be cited in line with OSCOLA (For examples of referencing, see the subsequent two pages.)

  

 

1. Referencing Examples

 

For books

– Hardt & A. Negri, Empire(Harvard University Press, 2001), p. 154.
Subsequent citations: Hardt & Negri, Empire, p. 167. If immediately subsequent: Ibid, p. 168.

 

For book chapters

– Kawar, ‘Palestinian Women’s Activism after Oslo’, in Suha Sabbagh, Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank(Indiana University Press, 1998), p. 237.
Subsequent citations: Kawar, ‘Palestinian Women’s Activism’, p. 237. If immediately subsequent: Ibid, p. 237.

 

For journal articles

– Barkawi & M. Laffey, ‘Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations’, in Millennium-Journal of International Studies, Vol. 31 (2002), p. 110.
Subsequent citations of the same: Barkawi and Laffey, ‘Retrieving the Imperial’, p. 124. If immediately subsequent: Ibid, p. 168.

 

For newspaper articles

– Curtis, ‘Universities Must Reveal Data on Dropout Rates and Teaching Time’, in The Observer(1 November 2009), p. 8.
Subsequent citations: Curtis, ‘Universities’, p. 8. If immediately subsequent: Ibid., p. 8
Note. In subsequent citations, the page reference should only be given when an article extends across two or more pages.

 

For online newspaper articles

– As above, but instead of page numbers, the article’s url and the date last accessed.

 

For government or judicial documents, opinions and consultations

– Generally the referencing conventions for books should be followed when such a publication appears in a book form, and referencing conventions for articles for shorter sources. In the case of an online publication without pagination, url and date last accessed should be entered instead of a page range.

 

 2. Legal References & OSCOLA Quick Reference Guide

 

Primary Sources 

– Do not use full stops in abbreviations. Separate citations with a semi-colon.

 

Cases 

– Give the party names, followed by the neutral citation, followed by the Law Reports citation (eg AC, Ch, QB). If there is no neutral citation, give the Law Reports citation followed by the court in brackets. If the case is not reported in the Law Reports, cite the All ER or the WLR, or failing that a specialist report.

Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13, [2008] 1 AC 884
R (Roberts) v Parole Board [2004] EWCA Civ 1031, [2005] QB 410

Page v Smith [1996] AC 155 (HL)

– When pinpointing, give paragraph numbers in square brackets at the end of the citation. If the judgment has no paragraph numbers, provide the page number pinpoint after the court.

Callery v Gray [2001] EWCA Civ 1117, [2001] 1 WLR 2112 [42], [45]
Bunt v Tilley [2006] EWHC 407 (QB), [2006] 3 All ER 336 [1]–[37]

R v Leeds County Court, ex p Morris [1990] QB 523 (QB) 530–31

– If citing a particular judge:

Arscott v The Coal Authority [2004] EWCA Civ 892, [2005] Env LR 6 [27] (Laws LJ)

 

Statutes and statutory instruments

 – Act of Supremacy 1558
Human Rights Act 1998, s 15(1)(b)

Penalties for Disorderly Behaviour (Amendment of Minimum Age) Order 2004, SI 2004/3166

 

EU legislation and cases

 – Consolidated Version of the Treaty on European Union [2008] OJ C115/13

– Council Regulation (EC) 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (EC Merger Regulation) [2004] OJ L24/1, art 5
Case C–176/03 Commission v Council [2005] ECR I–7879, paras 47–48

 

European Court of Human Rights 

– Omojudi v UK (2009) 51 EHRR 10
Osman v UK ECHR 1998–VIII 3124
Balogh v Hungary App no 47940/99 (ECHR, 20 July 2004)
Simpson v UK (1989) 64 DR 188

 

Secondary Sources Books 

– Give the author’s name in the same form as in the publication, except in bibliographies, where you should give only the surname followed by the initial(s). Give relevant information about editions, translators and so forth before the publisher, and give page numbers at the end of the citation, after the brackets.

– Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan ( rst published 1651, Penguin 1985) 268
Gareth Jones, Goff and Jones: The Law of Restitution (1st supp, 7th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2009)

– K Zweigert and H Kötz, An Introduction to Comparative Law (Tony Weir tr, 3rd edn, OUP 1998)

 

Contributions to edited books 

– Francis Rose, ‘The Evolution of the Species’
in Andrew Burrows and Alan Rodger (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006)

 

Encyclopedias 

– Halsbury’s Laws (5th Edn., 2010) Vol. 57, para 53

 

 Journal articles 

– Paul Craig, ‘Theory, “Pure Theory” and Values in Public Law’ [2005] PL 440

– When pinpointing, put a comma between the rst page of the article and the page pinpoint.

– JAG Grif th, ‘The Common Law and the Political Constitution’ (2001) 117 LQR 42, 64

 

Online journals 

– Graham Greenleaf, ‘The Global Development of Free Access to Legal Information’ (2010) 1(1) EJLT < http://ejlt.org//article/view/17 > accessed 27 July 2010

 

Command papers and Law Commission reports 

– Department for International Development, Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future (White Paper, Cm 7656, 2009) ch 5
Law Commission, Reforming Bribery (Law Com No 313, 2008) paras 3.12–3.17

 

Websites and blogs 

– Sarah Cole, ‘Virtual Friend Fires Employee’ (Naked Law, 1 May 2009) <www.nakedlaw. com/2009/05/index.html> accessed 19 November 2009

 

Newspaper articles 

– Jane Croft, ‘Supreme Court Warns on Quality’ Financial Times (London, 1 July 2010) 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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