Security and Peace
Security and Peace (short: S F ) is a German professional journal for peace and security policy. With a quarterly publication since 1983 and has a circulation of 800 copies shall be deemed established, but was redesigned in 2004. There is now also a share of refereed articles (peer review ). Font manager is currently Michael Brzoska from the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg ( IFSH). More publishers are Volker Franke of the Bonn International Center for Conversion ( BICC), Heiner Hänggi by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces ( DCAF ), Heinz -Dieter Jopp of the Staff College ( FüAK ), Walter E. Feichtinger from Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management in Vienna, Patricia Schneider ( editor in Chief ) by IFSH and Hans J. Giessmann from the Berghof Research Center for constructive Conflict Management, Berlin. The scientific advisory board of the journal include, Alyson JK Bailes of the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Detlef Bald from Munich, Joachim Betz from the Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg ( GIGA ), Hans -Peter Dürr, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize (Munich), Pál Dunay the Geneva Centre for Security Policy ( GCSP ), Sabine Jaberg of the Staff College in Hamburg, Charles A. Kupchan of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, Martin Kutz from Hamburg, Krzysztof Ruchniewicz from the Willy Brandt Center for Germany and European Studies in Wrocław, Susanne Feske of the University of Münster, Martina Fischer from the Berghof research Center for Constructive conflict Management in Berlin, Sabine von Schorlemer of the TU Dresden, Bates Gill from Stockholm Institute for international Peace Research (SIPRI ) and Ljubica Jelusic of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
Topic
The journal is a forum of communication for science and politics, between civil society and the armed forces have space in the analysis, insider reporting, tracking and assessment. The issues of security policy, peace research play of natural science aspects of arms control to issues of nation-building in post-conflict societies a role.
Publication
The issues of the journal have one main topic at a time. In addition to the focus but also texts will be published to general issues of security policy and peace research. Papers are published in German and English and there is also a large part of book reviews.
The review process of the journal is elected by the authors, ie the quality of the journal is ensured either by publishers and editors or an additional review process with external experts.