Launch of the South Asian Peace and Conflict Resolution Journal Successfully Completed
Date: June 30, 2025

By June 30, 2025, the Institute was prepared to publish an international peer-reviewed South Asian Peace and Conflict Resolution Journal. The concept of the journal arose from an interdisciplinary means through which peace operations and conflict resolutions could be better understood and articulated from the South Asian perspective.

Volume 1 contained articles connected to the theme, written by reputable scholars and practitioners, empirically driven to articulate a better understanding of the structural, geopolitical, and historical foundations of conflict in the region. Among these was a lens into why Kashmir is a never-ending site of conflict, the India-China border as a territorial conflict and a cross-border conflict, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan corridor through a geostrategic lens.

It also assessed findings in attempted transitional justice and reconciliation efforts in Sri Lanka and an evaluation of federal reconstruction and peace agreement implementation in Nepal, for while these cases represent micro examples of conflict-induced paths, the findings were transferable to greater South Asian lessons learned.

Rather than take a standoffish approach between academia and practice, this journal fostered the active dialogue between the two, open-access and inclusively relative to educated discourse regarding ethics, approaches, and possibilities for peace-rendering efforts. While print copies would be distributed, an open-access version online would allow for international ears for professional and practical endeavors.