Aarcon Report is an open-access, non-commercial publication series. Throughout the year, we accept submissions on a rolling basis, which will be published on the Aarcon website as e-publications ahead of print. Articles will then be assigned an issue number and be published twice a year (December and June) in co-alignment with the Aarcon conferences.

The editorial board does its work on a voluntary basis to provide a platform for authors to share their work with peers. We therefore highly appreciate authors making their contributions as complete and accurate as possible before submission.

Submissions:

Submissions can be submitted on a rolling basis. All submitted articles will undergo a short desk review in order to make sure the submission falls into the scope and guidelines of Aarcon Report. Accepted submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board regarding quality, grammar, and style.

Texts should be between 500 and 850 words. This excludes a small list of references and image captions. All submissions should include at least one and up to three images, with the exception of the opinion piece (one image) and the photo essay (three to six images).

Please enclose the original image files as seperate files to the submission email.

We invite authors to submit their contribution in a MS Word file to: Aarcon@au.dk. Please state Aarcon Report and your name in the subject line of your email. Please state the following in the title of the file: Aarcon Report, your name, and the type of submission, so that the filename will, for example, look like: AarconReport_SarahDoe_ResearchReport.

All submissions should be accompanied by a front page, which should include:

• Name of author(s)
• Affiliation of author(s) (if applicable)
• Email of author(s)
• Title of submission
• Word count
• Up to three key words
• A short bio of the author of no more than 50 words.

If you have any questions or inquiries regarding your submission, feel free to contact our current managing editors at: Aarcon@au.dk

Types of contributions:

We are open to the following variety of article formats:

1. Research reports:
   Short presentations of published articles, summaries, or main research findings from projects or theses that set forth an argument.
2. Reflections from the field:
   Short articles that focus on the professional and practical environment related to conflict. These can range from policy analyses, interviews, project placement experiences, fieldwork reports, to discussing issues that are currently relevant in the professional world related to conflict.
3. Photo essays:
   Short pieces that push forward an argument that is centred around a photo essay of maximum of six images. The text is meant to be in support of the photos, instead of the photos being illustrations of the text.
4. Opinion pieces:
   Short pieces with a clear-cut argument and/or opinion regarding a contemporary issue/event that relates to themes of Aarcon.

All Aarcon Report articles and images used in them, are published under a Creative Commons CC BY license. This open access license encourages reuse and distribution, while requiring that the creator is always credited (for more, see the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association).

Language and font:

We publish our articles in British English.

All submission should be in font Times New Roman, font size 12, justified, at least 2 cm margin on the left, right, top and bottom, and line spacing of 1.5. must be used.

Editorial Policy:

The contributions represent the view of the author(s), not the position of the Aarcon Report nor the Aarhus Centre for Conflict Management (Aarcon). Although the editorial team is committed to facilitate publications where possible, the team reserves the right to reject submissions that do not comply with the guidelines set out on this page or ethical guidelines.

Images:

We only accept high-quality images. This means that they should have a good contrast, be sharp, and have a high resolution and are preferably in JPG.

Image caption should be short and contain: image title (optional), information on place and year, and author’s full name or the source.

Citation style:

Please keep footnotes to a minimum. Endnotes are not allowed.

Please refer to the following examples for the required referencing style:

In-text: 

… The fake documents demonstrate entanglement between power and sentiment (Bubandt 2009: 576–78). 

… Henrik Vigh (2011: 109) argues that the believe in invisible forces is foundationally social.

… this division creates, in the end, not a homogeneous territory of national sovereignty (Radcliffe 2001) but patchy and variegated spaces of differential regulation. …

Please make sure to double check direct quotes, as the editors might not have access to the sources you cite.

Bibliography:

Style for list of references:

Book: 

Cons, Jason. 2016. Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Martinez, Fancisco & Laviolette, Patrick (eds.). 2019. Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough: Ethnographic Responses,London: Berghahn Books.

Chapter in book:

Venhovens, Mikel. 2023. “Transient In-betweenness: Conflicting Present and Futures in the De Facto Republic of Abkhazia.” In A Sea of Transience: Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast, edited by Tamta Khalvashi and Martin Demant Frederiksen, 113–131. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Online media articles:

Skippage, Rebecca. 2017. “Violence against women: The stories behind the statistics.” BBC News, 26 November. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46307051

Journal article:

Barua, Maan. 2022. “Reconciliation Infrastructures.” Roadsides 8: 30-41. 

Dunn, Elizabeth. 2008. “Postsocialist spores: Disease, bodies, and the state in the Republic of Georgia.” American Ethnologist 35 (2): 243–258. 

Website:

Gade, Christian. 2022. “A paradigm shift within the restorative justice movement? Restorative justice as punishment.” European Forum for Restorative Justice. https://www.euforumrj.org/en/restorative-justice-another-form-punishment

United Nations Development Fund (website). 2023. “The SDGS in Action.” https://www.undp.org/sustainable-development-goals