The Journal
of Peace
Ethics
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Inaugural Issue:
What is Peace? Towards Responsible Peace-Craft
Call for Abstracts
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The Journal of Peace Ethics (JPE) is an international peer-reviewed academic publication devoted to ethical inquiry into the nature of peace and the conditions under which it is rendered possible and sustainable. The journal invites contributions from scholars and practitioners working in and across different disciplines and ethical traditions grounded in epistemic realism (understood as the correspondence between mental concepts and external realities). The journal will be published biannually and accepts submissions on a rolling basis. It is hosted by Responsible Peace, an organization dedicated to promoting ethically grounded peace policy.
Inaugural Issue: What Is Peace? Towards Responsible Peace-craft
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The question of what constitutes peace remains conceptually unresolved. Many contemporary efforts to define peace have adopted a ‘negative’ approach, describing peace in terms of what it is not, including the absence of direct and structural violence. While such an outlook offers certain analytical advantages, it leaves our understanding of peace as a ‘substantive good’ underdeveloped. This definitional ambiguity carries significant implications for how peace is conceptualized and how peace policy is conceived, operationalized, and evaluated.
A robust inquiry into the nature of peace is thus of vital importance. This inquiry represents not solely a theoretical exercise, but also a necessary foundation for any ethically coherent engagement with peace as a social good. Only once peace is conceptualized in positive terms (i.e., in terms of what it is rather than what it is not) can we meaningfully ask: How might peace, the practices of those who pursue it, and the institutional forms that sustain it, be rendered ethically responsible?
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The Journal of Peace Ethics invites submissions that critically engage these foundational questions. Contributors are welcome to submit their abstracts; following an initial review, invitations to submit full manuscripts will be extended.
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Abstracts may be sent to: submissions@jpethics.com by December 31, 2025.