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Aims and Scope
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Aims and Scope

AJRMG aims, scope, subject areas and article types.

Journal Mandate

Aims

  • ✓ Build a rigorous, African-led evidence base on resilience, management and governance.
  • ✓ Advance theory and methods for defining, measuring and building resilience across individuals, communities, organisations and states.
  • ✓ Connect research with policy and practice through accessible, actionable findings.
  • ✓ Strengthen scholarly dialogue between Africa, the wider Global South and the international research community.
Selection Criteria

What we look for

We welcome work that makes a clear contribution to theory, evidence, policy or practice, that uses sound and transparent methods, and that speaks to the realities of Africa or the Global South. We publish qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, comparative, configurational and practice-based research. Studies from other regions fall within scope when they draw clear lessons for African or Global South contexts.

We do not publish opinion pieces without an evidential basis, promotional material, or work that falls outside resilience, management and governance.

Subject Areas

Scope

AJRMG publishes work on the following areas, among others:

Resilience theory, concepts and measurement
Human security, community safety, community policing and hybrid security arrangements
Governance, public administration, institutions and the rule of law
Risk, crisis, emergency and disaster management
Peacebuilding, conflict prevention, violent extremism and post-conflict recovery
Economic resilience, livelihoods, informal economies and financial inclusion
Climate adaptation, environmental governance and green livelihoods
Organisational resilience, leadership, strategic management and corporate governance
Health system resilience and public health emergencies
Data, technology, digital governance and cyber resilience
Comparative studies across Africa and the Global South

Article types

Article type Length Description
Research article 6,000 to 9,000 words Original empirical or theoretical research that makes a substantial contribution.
Review article 7,000 to 10,000 words Systematic, scoping or critical reviews of a body of literature.
Policy and practice paper 4,000 to 6,000 words Evidence-based analysis of a policy, programme or practice, with clear implications for decision makers.
Case study or field report 3,000 to 5,000 words A documented account of an intervention, institution or event, with analysis and lessons.
Research note 2,500 to 4,000 words Short reports of new data, methods or preliminary findings.
Book review 1,000 to 1,500 words Critical review of a recent book within the journal's scope.

Word counts include notes and references but exclude the abstract, tables, figures and appendices. All article types except book reviews go through double-anonymised peer review. Editors review book reviews.