Peace Human Rights Governance

Aims & Scope

PHRG constitutes a scientific resource within the growing multi-faceted human rights studies community. It aims to publish original contributions to emerging debates at the crossroads between human rights, peace and governance issues, while actively favouring the development of a sound multi- (and inter) disciplinary and multi-level approach to research and dissemination on these matters.

The journal is completely open access and it is six-monthly (two issues per year). Accepted papers are immediately published with a DOI in the “online first” section of the site and then collected into periodic issues.

PHRG publishes original research articles, practitioner papers, policy papers as well as review papers and book reviews. It is particularly interested in contributions on issues related to the actors, processes and norms that shape the human rights agenda at different levels of governance, including:

• Human rights relationships with world order and global governance issues, international law, international politics and organisation;
• Human rights monitoring mechanisms at the international, regional and national levels;
• The relation of the human rights agenda with subsidiarity and multi-level governance, city diplomacy and local policies and services;
• Policies to address the human rights of specific groups (women, children, migrants, persons with disabilities, indigenous people), vulnerability and non-discrimination issues;
• Trafficking in human rights;
• The promotion of human rights and peace in national and European foreign policies;
• Sustainable development governance, human rights and the climate crisis;
• International and cosmopolitan democracy and global citizenship;
• Civil society transnational networks advocacy on human rights, human security, peace and climate justice;
• Religions and human rights;
• People’s rights and self-determination;
• Media, data governance and human rights;
• The human right to peace, conflict transformation/conflict resolution;
• Human rights and peace-centred education processes;

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

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APC Details

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