Violence: An International Journal
Violence publishes:
• Research articles
• Debates
• Interviews and Portraits
• “State of the art” articles
Violence: A Journal aims to develop understanding about violence, but also to build up a delineated field of research for preventing and exiting violence, with its contributions and debates. More particularly, the journal is focused on physical, political or social violence, but also deals with State violence, delinquency and crime for instance. When asking crosscutting issues, Violence will look at various regions of the world, from the local – such as a specific country or even a city - to the global.
| Scott Straus | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Michel Wieviorka | EHESS, France |
| Mohamed-Ali Adraoui | Marie Slodowska Curie Fellow, Georgetown University and London School of Economics, USA and UK |
| Sergio S. Araya | Associate Professor, School of Political Sciences, Director, Doctorate in Government and Public Policy, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica |
| Agnes Favier | Part-Time Professor, Middle East Directions Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy |
| Jerome Ferret | Associate Professor in Sociology, University Toulouse 1 Capitole, Co-director of the Maison des sciences de l'homme et de la société of Toulouse (USR 3414 CNRS), France |
| Sabrina Melenotte | Social and political anthropologist, IRD research fellow (URMIS-Paris) in France, visiting researcher at CIESAS-Golfo (2021-2023) in Mexico |
| Paola Rebughini | Full Professor of Sociology of Culture, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy |
| Thomas Coppey | FMSH, France |
| Bertrand Badie | France |
| Fethi Benslama | Professor of Clinical Psychopathology, Director of Psychoanalytical Studies Research Unit (UFR), Director of the Institute of Humanities, Paris Diderot University, France |
| Catherine L. Besteman | Professor of Anthropology, Colby College, USA |
| Judit Bokser Liwerant | Research Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico |
| Rony Brauman | Medical Doctor / Research Director, Doctors Without Borders / Professor, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) and at the University of Manchester, UK |
| Craig Calhoun | University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, USA / Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Manuel Castells | Professeur Emerite de Sociologie, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Elisabeth Claverie | Anthropologist, Emeritus Research Director, CNRS, France |
| Randall Collins | Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Martha Crenshaw | Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, USA |
| Carole Damiani | Doctor of Clinical Psychology, Director at Paris Aide aux Victimes (Paris Help for Victims Association), General Secretary at Association de Langue Française de l’Etude du Stress et du Traumatisme (ALFEST), France |
| Donatella Della Porta | Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy |
| Mamadou Diouf | Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History, Chair, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department, Colombia University, USA |
| Marie-Christine Doran | Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, Ottawa University, SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Director of Research, Canada |
| Jean-Pierre Dozon | Vice President of Foundation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH), Emeritus Research Director at the Institute for Development Research (IRD), member of the Institute of the African Worlds (IMAF), Director of Studies at the EHESS, France |
| Nilufer Gole | Sociologist, Research Director, EHESS, France |
| Maria Stela Grossi Porto | Full professor, Departement of Sociology, Brasília University, Brazil |
| Wilhelm Heitmeyer | Founder and director (1996-2013) of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University, Germany |
| Shashi Jayakumar | Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) / Executive Coordinator, Future Issues and Technology, S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Mary Kaldor | Director of the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics, UK |
| Farhad Khosrokhavar | Director of the Observatory on Radicalisation, FMSH, retired Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris |
| Pascale Laborier | Professor of Political Science, Paris Nanterre University, France |
| Yvon Le Bot | Sociologist, Emeritus Director of research, CREDA (CNRS-Université Sorbonne nouvelle), Co-Holder for the Global Destinies of Latin America Chair, Cadis International Association, France |
| Carlos Martinez-Assad | Investigador emérito de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico y Coordinador del Seminario Universitario de las Culturas del Medio Oriente, Mexico |
| Saoud El Mawla | Professor of Sociology of Arab Societies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar |
| Tarek Mitri | Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, Lebanon |
| Ernesto Ottone | Professor, Diego Portales University, Chile / Chairholder of the Global Destinies of Latin America Chair, FMSH, France |
| Paulo Sergio Pinheiro | Chair, Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, United Nations, Brazil / USA |
| Eduardo Pizarro | Sociologist, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia |
| Richard Rechtman | Research Director, EHESS, member, CESPRA (Centre of sociological and political studies Raymond Aron), France |
| Marc Sageman | Independent Scholar, USA |
| Jacques Semelin | Senior research fellow CNRS, France |
| Natan Sznaider | Professor of Sociology, Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, School of Behavioral Sciences, Israel |
| Peter Wallensteen | Senior Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden |
| Elisabeth J. Wood | Crosby Professor of the Human Environment, Yale University, USA |
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Violence: An International Journal
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
Please read the guidelines below and then visit the Journal’s submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/violence to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Remember you can log in to the submission site at any time to check on the progress of your paper through the peer review process.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Violence: An International Journal will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this Journal. Open Access options are available - see section 3.3 below.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere.
Please see our guidelines on prior publication and note that Violence: An International Journal may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy. If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.
If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Funding
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
2.6 Research Data
2.7 Research ethics and consent - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplementary material
4.4 Reference style
4.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 Sage Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Before submitting your manuscript to Violence: An Internatioanl Journal, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
Violence: An Internatioanl Journal will publish the following article types
- Research articles (5000 to 8000 words)
- Special issue articles (5000 to 8000 words)
- Debates, interviews and portraits (5000 to 8000 words)
- “State of the art” articles (5000 to 8000 words)
- Articles or interviews that deal with violence or the exit of violence through the lens of art (short essays by artists, interviews of artists, all artistic disciplines welcome, from visual arts to literature, theater and music)
The Editors will not consider submissions that are longer than 10,000 words.
There are is no limit on the number of references allowed.
The Sage Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources. Sage Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, visit our Gateway page on How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
Sage does not permit the use of author-suggested (recommended) reviewers at any stage of the submission process, be that through the web-based submission system or other communication.
Reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Our policy is that reviewers should not be assigned to a paper if:
• The reviewer is based at the same institution as any of the co-authors
• The reviewer is based at the funding body of the paper
• The author has recommended the reviewer
• The reviewer has provided a personal (e.g. Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail) email account and an institutional email account cannot be found after performing a basic Google search (name, department and institution).
Violence: An International Journal is committed to delivering high quality, fast peer-review for your paper, and as such has partnered with Publons. Publons is a third party service that seeks to track, verify and give credit for peer review. Reviewers for Violence: An International Journal can opt in to Publons in order to claim their reviews or have them automatically verified and added to their reviewer profile. Reviewers claiming credit for their review will be associated with the relevant journal, but the article name, reviewer’s decision and the content of their review is not published on the site. For more information visit the Publons website.
The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
2.3.1 Writing assistance
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Violence: An International Journal requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
Violence: An International Journal encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the Sage Journal Author Gateway
It is the policy of Violence: An International Journal to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’. For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations here
2.6 Research Data
At Sage we are committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research. Where relevant, Violence: An International Journal encourages authors to share their research data in a suitable public repository subject to ethical considerations and where data is included, to add a data accessibility statement in their manuscript file. Authors should also follow data citation principles. For more information please visit the Sage Author Gateway, which includes information about Sage’s partnership with the data repository Figshare.
2.7 Research ethics and consent
Research involving humans, especially vulnerable groups involving sensitive topics or research that may compromise their safety or privacy must be conducted according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Submitted manuscripts that involve work with humans should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and must state in the methods section that the relevant ethics committee or institutional review board provided (or waived) approval where it is appropriate. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number.
For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal. The Journal requests that you confirm to us, in writing, that you have obtained written informed consent but the written consent itself should be held by the authors/investigators themselves. The confirmatory letter may be uploaded with your submission as a separate file.
Please also refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants.
Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the Sage Author Gateway
3.1.1 Plagiarism
Violence: An International Journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a Sage journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the Sage Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. Sage’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants Sage the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than Sage. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the Sage Author Gateway
3.3 Open access and author archiving
Violence: An International Journal offers optional open access publishing via the Sage Choice programme and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. For more information on Open Access publishing options at Sage please visit Sage Open Access. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit Sage’s Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit Sage’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines
This is an online only publication. Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files
Violence: An International Journal adheres to the Sage Harvard reference style. View the Sage Harvard guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the Sage Harvard EndNote output file
4.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Violence: An International Journal is hosted on Sage Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/violence to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the Sage Author Gateway
6. On acceptance and publication
Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the Sage Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
Sage provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The Sage Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice. In addition, Sage is partnered with Kudos, a free service that allows authors to explain, enrich, share, and measure the impact of their article. Find out how to maximise your article’s impact with Kudos.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Violence: An International Journal editorial office as follows:
Thomas Coppey
Service des Éditions
Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme,
A1-15, 54 Bd. Raspail
75270 Paris Cedex 06
France
7.1 Appealing the puiblication decision
Editors have very broad discretion in determining whether an article is an appropriate fit for their journal. Many manuscripts are declined with a very general statement of the rejection decision. These decisions are not eligible for formal appeal unless the author believes the decision to reject the manuscript was based on an error in the review of the article, in which case the author may appeal the decision by providing the Editor with a detailed written description of the error they believe occurred.
If an author believes the decision regarding their manuscript was affected by a publication ethics breach, the author may contact the publisher with a detailed written description of their concern, and information supporting the concern, at publication_ethics@sagepub.com