The International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV) is an open access interdisciplinary scientific journal covering conflict and violence research.
It has been published twice a year in English since 2007 and encompasses contributions from a wide range of disciplines including sociology, political science, education, social psychology, criminology, ethnology, history, political philosophy, urban studies, economics, and the study of religions.
[1] The editors-in-chief are Andreas Zick (University of Bielefeld), Steven F. Messner, (University at Albany, SUNY), Gary LaFree, (University of Maryland, College Park) and Ekaterina Stepanova (IMEMO, Russian Academy of Sciences)[2] and is sponsored by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung, IKG) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).
[3] The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.578, ranking it 98th out of 161 journals in the category "Political Science" and 50th out of 85 journals in the category "International Relations".
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