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Call for Papers, Volume 1, Issue 1
✦ Call for Papers · AJRMG

Call for Papers, Volume 1, Issue 1

AJRMG invites submissions for its inaugural issue: Building Resilience in an Era of Emergent Risks.

✦ Volume 1, Issue 1 · Inaugural Issue

Building Resilience in an Era of Emergent Risks: Integrating Community, Security and Governance Architecture

The African Journal of Resilience, Management and Governance invites submissions for its inaugural issue.

Africa and the wider Global South face a widening range of emergent risks: insurgency, banditry and organised crime; climate shocks and environmental degradation; economic volatility and cost of living pressures; disinformation and digital threats; public health emergencies; and strains on the legitimacy of institutions. These risks interact and cross borders. They test the ability of communities to cope, of security institutions to protect, and of governments to coordinate and to keep public trust.

This issue asks how communities, security institutions and governance systems can work together as one architecture of resilience, rather than as separate actors. We welcome theoretical, empirical, comparative and practice-based contributions.

Suggested topics

Community resilience, local knowledge and early warning
Community policing, hybrid security and state and non-state security partnerships
Civil and military relations, intelligence coordination and security sector governance
Governance, trust, legitimacy and the social contract under stress
Economic resilience, livelihoods, informal economies and green transitions
Climate, environment and security
Measuring resilience: indices, indicators and evaluation
Leadership, organisational resilience and crisis management
Technology, data and digital resilience
Lessons from comparative and cross-national experience

Article types

Research articles, review articles, policy and practice papers, case studies and research notes. See the Aims and Scope for word limits.

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How to submit

Prepare your manuscript in line with the Author Guidelines and submit it through the online submission system. Select "Volume 1, Issue 1" in the comments to the editor. Send any questions to editor@ajrmg.org.

Open Access APC: Local ₦30,000; $50 for other countries. All articles are open access under CC BY 4.0.

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