In the Fall 2025 Issue, we invite contributors to boldly explore what a new generation of peace could look like.

In a world marked by weakening multilateralism, geopolitical tensions, profound inequality, climate collapse, digital disruption, and growing social division, we urgently need to rethink and reimagine what peace can and should look like. This Issue is a forward-looking, visionary space aimed at reimagining peace itself: how it is led, how it is learned, and how it can be lived.

We are asking contributors to go further—to provoke, imagine, and challenge.  What if peace were not just the absence of violence, but the presence of restorative justice, compassion, respect, understanding, belonging, healing, and creative disruption?  What if peace leadership were not confined to institutions but cultivated from the margins—from movements, digital communities, spiritual, artistic, and ancestral practices?  What if peace activists were not only academics or professionals, but community leaders, faith actors, and ordinary men, women, and youth?  What if peace offered radical hope?

We especially encourage submissions that:

• Offer visionary ideas or alternatives to dominant systems (e.g., the UN, state diplomacy, formal education)

• Uplift innovative approaches to dialogue, mediation, community-building, and justice

• Engage with the intersections of peace and climate action, digital citizenship, spiritual traditions, gender, race, or decolonization

• Showcase intergenerational approaches to peacebuilding and co-leadership

• Share grounded examples of transformative peacebuilding work and leadership

• Reflect on lived experiences, including personal narratives, case studies, and experimental formats

• Expand on and showcase evolving peace practices (e.g., the “Peace Dwelling” work, the polylogue from the Fall 2024 International Journal of Peace & Conflict)

Our aim is for readers to:

• Be inspired by a new generation of peace leaders and thinkers

• Deepen their understanding of the importance of profound peace practice in this moment

• Learn about transformative approaches already being led around the world

• Know how and where to invest in building peace, and where to go to learn more

Let’s shape a future where peace is more than a hope—it’s a shared practice, reimagined and renewed by a generation unwilling to accept the status quo.

What we’re looking for

• We welcome essays, research-based articles, interviews, visual stories, poetry, dialogues, case studies, and multimedia submissions. Whether you are an educator, activist, scholar, faith leader, student, artist, or storyteller—we want to hear from you.

• Diverse, intergenerational perspectives from around the world.

• Examples and stories of innovative and transformational approaches to peace education, as well as individuals and groups leading these initiatives

• Summaries of scholarship and research related to the theme

• Articles summarizing peace leaders’ and/or scholars’ opinions and analysis of the theme, with the aim of stimulating reflection and discussion.

For additional details, download the Submission Guidelines using the button above.