Call for Papers – Countering Violent Extremism: Global Action Plan

The Centre for Pakistan and Gulf Studies (CPGS) launched its mega project SALAM: Innovating Means to Resolve Extremism in Pakistan in August 2013. The Project was aimed at identifying means to eradicate the menace of extremism from Pakistan.

Under this project, the Centre has launched a sub-project, “Countering Violent Extremism: Global Action Plan”.

Violent extremism has become a monumental challenge in today’s time and age. The ideology behind violent extremism cannot be defeated in a battlefield; only a well-informed counter-ideology aimed at identifying and eradicating the problem from within communities can help cope with this menace as the threat spectrum of violent extremism is intensified by the fact that it is not linked to a specific religion, civilization, nation or ideology. From one corner of the world to another, violent extremism equally affects all, irrespective of creed, culture and cast. To deal with this menace states today have acknowledged the need to develop an effective strategy to counter violent extremism.

Keeping in view the above, CPGS is envisioning to broaden the scope of the debate on eliminating extremism from the national to international platforms.

The Centre is now inviting expression of interest from research scholars on:

Topic: “Countering Violent Extremism: Global Action Plan”

If you feel you can make a significant contribution on the above mentioned topic, please forward an abstract of 250-500 words to the Centre at [email protected] or [email protected]

Should the CPGS editorial board approve the abstract, you will be contacted within 10 working days and requested to submit the complete work.

A token honorarium will also be paid to all approved authors.

Categories

• Op-eds /Articles: Word Limit between 1000-1200 words
• Feature Article: Word Limit between 2000-2500 words
• Research Papers: Word Limit between 6000-8000 words

Submission Guidelines

Please read the instructions carefully prior to submission. In case specified guidelines are not met, a request for re-submission will be made.

General

Authors should submit their manuscripts via email and post.
All identification information must be provided for each author.
Please proofread your paper carefully before submission (or use a copy editor if necessary).

Basic Formatting

Text must be double spaced (including interviews). Times New Roman 12 font must be used. Nothing is underlined. Numbering begins on the title page (page 1), and is in the upper right corner. The paper must be left justified. There must be one-inch margins on all sides. Please use letter format (not A4 or international).

Please be sure that all electronic comments (track changes) and corrections between authors have been removed (not just turned off).

There should be no footnotes in your manuscript. All references shall be provided in endnotes.

Please include an excellent abstract (150 words max) that carefully summarizes your work. Your abstract should contain:

1. Motivation/Problem (what gap your research will fill;
2. Approach/Methods;
3. Results;
4. Implications and Conclusions. Use keywords within your abstract (very important for indexing and abstracting). Do not include any citations, tables, figures, or any information in your abstract that is not in your manuscript.

Please note that the manuscript file must be complete (title page, author information, abstract, main text, appendix, references, tables, figures–in this order) as one file only. Please use black and white for figures and photos to reduce the file size.

Revisions

When you resubmit your paper, please include a set of overview revision notes describing how you addressed the broad issues and reviewer concerns identified during review. Please keep your notes as brief as possible, with no repetition.

Please be sure to follow the editor’s instructions from the decision letter.

Please return your revision in a timely manner.

Contribution Statements

Every submission must have a contribution statement (for the review process only). This statement should be placed after the author note and before the abstract.

Similar Manuscripts

As submissions to Foresight are evaluated as advancements to a body of knowledge, we require all authors to provide citations or titles for all of their related papers published, in press, or under review at other journals. Please list these citations and titles in your notes to the editors. In addition, final acceptance of manuscripts is conditioned on a check using anti-plagiarism software. Please refer to http://publicationethics.org for a collection of definitions and general information concerning plagiarism.

Data Collection Paragraph

When submitting new manuscripts for review, authors must include a paragraph in the note to the editor section with the following information for each study: where and when the data was collected, and who collected the data. This paragraph must be included as part of all manuscripts accepted for publication.