Letter from the editors: Provoking Thought in Five Issues

International Social Science Journal, 2023

Since its inception in 1949 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Social Science Journal (ISSJ) has sought to strengthen the ties between social science communities globally. Aiming to reach the widest possible audience for over 70 years, the ISSJ uses inter-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to uncover new knowledge, offering an open door for theoretical and applied research. In January 2023, an editorial team composed of scholars from various regions and with backgrounds in different areas of the social sciences was assembled to cooperatively strive for excellence in publishing outstanding works and advance our scholarly and inter-disciplinary knowledge.

The Interdisciplinary Journal of International Studies, 2012

Journal of International Relations and Development, 2012

The JIRD is a global journal with Central European roots. We have established a diverse editorial team of scholars from Europe and North America linked first by a commitment to publish highest quality scholarship in international relations (IR) and development, broadly conceived, regardless of substantive or methodological focus; and second by a common awareness of the contribution the Central and East European (CEE) experience can make to the study of international politics. We envision the JIRD as a globally relevant journal with a CEE touch. This does not mean dealing primarily with CEE themes, although the region will naturally remain more strongly in focus than in comparable IR journals. More profoundly, it means nurturing both CEE IR scholarship and also the broader transnational scholarly context in which it develops. In the first three editorial periods, Zlatko Sˇabicˇ, Stefano Guzzini and Patrick T. Jackson led rigorous and highly professional editorial teams. Thanks to their skilful leadership, the JIRD was established as a forum for innovative and highquality scholarship and began to fulfil its mandate as the official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA). It also achieved an Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) listing. Entrusting the editorship into the hands of excellent scholars with academic backgrounds from Western universities was a good way of providing the journal with ideational resources, experience and academic contacts necessary for ensuring high levels of academic rigour and quality. This was needed in the late 1990s when the scholarly communities in political science and IR in CEE were in a period of transition and/or establishment and there were very few scholars in the region able and willing to take on the complex task of establishing and editing a globally competitive academic journal. Today, however, the research milieu in IR and related fields in CEE countries has matured. This results from at least three factors. First, a new generation of scholars with Ph.D. degrees and research experience from top-ranking Western institutions has taken on positions in CEE universities and research institutes. Second, a significant number of Western scholars who have spent time at CEE universities throughout the last two decades have returned to Western universities and continue to develop

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It is gratifying to note that the Journal of Research in Social Sciences has obtained a status of acceptance from the HEC in a very short span of time. It is indeed creditable for all the editorial staff and the NUML publishing staff to bring out an eye-catching get-up of the Journal. The research articles so far published are of a very high standard which match with standards of Journals being published at home and abroad. I wish you a good going and expect that ever higher standards shall be achieved with the renewed vigour and sustaimed motivation. I personally believe that the social sciences researchers shall be the forerunners of social reconstruction efforts being made to day and a very bright future lies before them to make a new civilization of informed public opinion and cognizable rapprochement between various interest groups shall certainly come about in the near future. MESSAGE FROM THE SENIOR ADVISOR Gone are the days when seats of learning were destined to impart knowledge only. The slogan of knowledge for the sake of knowledge was invented as a means of obtaining personal adornment, honour and dignity. Only scholars were trained in the institutions. The march of time has brought us to a cross road. As new knowledge has accumulated due to scientific investigations, the desire has arisen to put this knowledge to use for the benefit of mankind through technology. Theory and practice are thus made hand-maidens for each other. Knowledge in the fields of social sciences has also increased manifold with the passage of time. Efforts are being made to use human sciences for the uplift of mankind. The present day conditions of our existence need our attention to recognize, locate and solve our problems in a scientific manner. So the ultimate need for solving our problems of human existence has to be research based to produce practical knowledge of utilitarian value for human life. Let us be up and doing and join the folds of social science researchers whose beccon light is showing us the right way to serve humanity at large.

Journal of International Business Studies, 2010

Journal of International Relations and …, 2003

The study of post-conflict justice and peace incorporates ideas from many disciplines and on a range of topics including justice, reconciliation, democratization, and peace. While diversity is valuable, it can also lead to confusion in theory and practice and so requires close evaluation of how diverse ideas interact, and to what end. This paper begins the systematic examination of such interactions by using new bibliometric software to track citations between two particularly influential literatures contributing to post-conflict theory; the legal and the psychosocial. The paper describes how these traditions interact and the impact on the post-conflict literature as a whole.

TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF THE EURO-ATLANTIC PROCESSES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA International Scientific-Expert Conference Neum, March 18, 2021 Conference Proceedings, 2021

https://www.sum.ba/objave/novosti/transformacijski-potencijal-euroatlantskih-procesa-u-bosni-i-hercegovini The proceedings resulted from presentations during the unique international academic event which took place on March 18th 2001 in BH's coastal town of Neum. The conference gathered scholarly authorities, professionals as well as officials discussing internal and external stabilization of post-conflict and multinational states and societies, with the emphasis on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Academic focus was placed on the areas of political science, constitutionalism, federalism, diversity management, accomodation, consensus politics, harmonization of relations in post-conflict societies, global and geopolitics, European and security studies, which altogether brought in the enriched combined comparative practical and theoretical perspective. Among other, such approach mustered indications of critical political values necessary in multi-national socio-political environment for durable stabilisation and democratic maturing of post-conflict state and society such as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This article explores conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts in South Sudan since it became independent in 2011 after an exercise of referendum. The article argues that, through an in-depth analysis of South Sudan's conflict prevention strategies a strong and stable South Sudanese state could be established by national, and external partners. The different conflict prevention measures adopted and implemented by parties include the Comprehensive