Aims & Scope

As an outstanding field journal in conflict, economic development, and peace, the International Journal of Development and Conflict (IJDC) will provide a truly global forum for researchers for advancing our collective pool of knowledge in the field. The journal will foster scholarship of the highest standard and set a high standard for published papers in terms of their empirical depth, theoretical refinement and methodological rigor. The journal will publish innovative papers addressing the causes of conflicts and violence and the means of economic development to promote and sustain peace.

As a multidisciplinary journal of conflict, economic development, and peace, IJDC invites papers using modern empirical, theoretical and experimental approaches that attempt to explain both determinants and effects of various facets of conflict, economic development, and peace. The focus of the journal is on publishing theoretical, empirical and scientifically based studies to explore causes and consequences of conflict, development, and peace in our complex world. The journal especially seeks papers that address:

• Economic, political, social, and environmental factors associated with conflict, development, and peace.
• Non-economic factors and their interrelationships with economic factors in influencing conflict, development, and peace.
• Behavioral foundations of individual and group activities to explore causes and consequences of conflicts and economic development.
• Economics of terrorism and strategies to eliminate terrorism.

Publishing Information

During 2013-2024, IJDC was published online in open-access format twice a year in June and December, by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. Effective 2024 (Issue 2) Goa Institute of Management publishes and hosts IJDC. The entire cost of publication is borne by the Host. Consequently, no fees whatsoever are charged to authors and readers. Send Editorial enquiries to Prof. Partha Gangopadhyay, or Prof. Nitin Singh or to Prof. Sebastian Morris, or any of the Editors -in-Chief, IJDC. The E-ISSN number of IJDC is 2010:2704.

IJDC is indexed by SCOPUS, EconLit and RePEc. 

The Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) has awarded IJDC a quality rating of B in its 2019 review cycle, available here.

Notice
We sadly announce the passing away of our guest editors: Professor Henry J. Wan (Cornell University) and Distinguished Professor Ngo Van Long (McGill University), https://www.policyforum.net/authors/ngo-van-long/index.html, https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2010269011000270?