Peacebuilding

Aims & Scope

Peacebuilding is a peer-reviewed international, comparative, multidisciplinary journal open to articles on making peace in contemporary and historical cases of conflict-affected societies.

It aims to provide in-depth analyses of the ideologies, philosophies, interests, and policies that underpin programmes and initiatives designed to build peace, security, and order, and to connect with debates being held by policymakers, civil society, scholars and students.

Our interest spans, but is not confined to, critical interrogations of international and local, formal and informal, peace processes, peacebuilding, mediation, peacekeeping and peace-enforcement, development, and statebuilding.

We seek to support the examination of these concepts and policies against the backdrop of interdisciplinary theorising connected to realist, liberal, constructivist, critical, post-structural, post-colonial, and non-western theories, as well as encouraging an engagement with emerging theories of global justice, digital international relations, and new materialism, among others.

Peacebuilding is open to quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and particularly welcomes submissions that are prepared to challenge orthodox views and add new empirical insights into scholarly debates.

For example, we are interested in submissions from a post-colonial perspective of peace and order, or utilising ethnographic methodologies able to highlight subaltern voices, positionalities, and local claims in the context of hybridity and related power-relations.

Contributions from the ‘subjects’ of peace processes, peacebuilding, etc., as well as theoretical and methodological innovations (for example creative, critical and ethnographic work, whether on or in conflict-affected societies, or on donors and international actors) are particularly welcome.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.1
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.413

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	16

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13488

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	156

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

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

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Precarious peacebuilding: friction in global–local encounters

  Citation: 140

  Authors: Annika, Kristine

• International peacebuilding goes local: analysing Lederach's conflict transformation theory and its ambivalent encounter with 20 years of practice

  Citation: 98

  Authors: Thania

• Peacebuilding and the politics of non-linearity: rethinking ‘hidden’ agency and ‘resistance’

  Citation: 88

  Authors: David

• Peacebuilding, the local and the international: a colonial or a postcolonial rationality?

  Citation: 87

  Authors: Vivienne

• Theorising youth and everyday peace(building)

  Citation: 83

  Authors: Helen, Siobhan

• The simultaneity of authority in hybrid orders

  Citation: 64

  Authors: Peter, Louise Wiuff

• Towards better theories of peacebuilding: beyond the liberal peace debate

  Citation: 62

  Authors: John

• An embodied everyday peace in the midst of violence

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Helen

• Urban peacebuilding

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Annika

• Introducing the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM): a database of comprehensive peace agreements and their implementation, 1989–2007

  Citation: 47

  Authors: Madhav, John

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