Peace Prospects Submission Guidelines 

Issue 05 | November 2026 

About this issue

Repair & Transformation

Peace is not passive—it is a continual practice of building, repairing, renewing, protecting, and sustaining our relationships, communities, and systems.

Today, around the world, many systems once relied on to maintain peace are strained or breaking apart. Rupture is not only happening between nations or within institutions—it also happens within movements, communities, organizations, and the very spaces committed to justice and collective liberation. Conflict, harm, misunderstanding, burnout, and fragmentation happens wherever people struggle together against violence and oppression.

In this environment, peace cannot depend solely on institutions, elite negotiations, or isolated actors. It also depends on what happens in communities – our collective willingness across borders, generations, identities, and movements to stay in relationship through difficulty; to heal wounds and repair trust after harm; to protect human dignity; to remain accountable to one another; and to strengthen the practices that make long-term solidarity possible. 

In the next issue of Peace Prospects, we explore practices of repair to sustain peace. How can each of us practice and play active roles in repairing relationships to nurture and sustain communities? How do communities rebuild trust after conflict? How do societies address the wounds that, if left unhealed, become the seeds of future violence? What frameworks and approaches can we call upon and practice to ensure that peace endures? 

We invite reflections, essays, case studies, articles, creative pieces, interviews, and firsthand accounts that explore these questions across the spectrum of conflict and repair, from the immediacy of active conflict to the long work of repair over generations.  

We are particularly interested in submissions that explore:

  • Individual and collective approaches to repairing fractured relationships and societies, rebuilding trust, and strengthening social cohesion.
  • Everyday examples of repair, healing, justice, and transformation in community and movement-building work.
  • Cultural, spiritual, and artistic practices that cultivate belonging, resilience, and collective healing.
  • Stories of everyday courage, local leadership, and community-led peacebuilding in times of crisis.
  • New images of peace rooted in dignity, solidarity, justice, and a shared humanity.

What we are looking for:

We seek stories, analyses, creative expressions, and grounded reflections that explore how people collectively repair and sustain peace in fractured times, weaving together the relationships, cultures, practices, and infrastructures that enable coexistence. We welcome submissions from peacebuilders, organisers, scholars, artists, journalists, activists, educators, storytellers, movement leaders, spiritual practitioners, and anyone with lived or learned insight into the practices of repair, transformation, and sustained community for peace.

  • We welcome various formats, including essays, articles, interviews, visual stories, poetry, dialogues, case studies, and multimedia submissions.
  • Diverse, intergenerational perspectives from around the world.
  • Examples and stories of innovative and transformational approaches related to the theme, along with the individuals and groups leading these initiatives.
  • Summaries of scholarship and research related to the theme.
  • Articles summarizing peace leaders’ and/or scholars’ opinions and analysis of the theme, with the aim of stimulating reflection and discussion.

We hope our readers will gain from this Issue:

  • A deeper sense of peace as a living practice of repair, renewal, and relationship. 
  • Inspiration from stories of communities who have faced rupture and found pathways to healing and enduring peace. 
  • Practical insights on how institutions, networks, individuals, and movements can repair fractured relationships, rebuild trust, restore dignity, and strengthen the conditions for lasting peace.
  • Hope that even in fractured times, we can restore dignity, deepen solidarity, and widen the possibilities for peace and justice.

We invite you to add your voice, experience, creativity, and vision to this conversation as we explore what it means to repair and to sustain peace together.

Examples of Content Types

  • Feature Article: These are longer, more in-depth articles (1500-2000 words max) focused on scholarship and/or practice of peace leadership. Various styles are welcome, examples include:
    • Article
    • Interview
    • Story (of a group, leader, program, event)
  • Spotlight:  An article that provides short of multiple individuals, groups/organizations, or initiatives (800-1000 words max)
  • Think Piece: An article presenting an author’s opinions and analysis on a particular topic, usually designed to stimulate reflection and discussion. (800 words max)
  • Creative: This can include art, photography, poetry, or other creative content that explore and/or represent the theme. (500 words max)
  • Resources / Announcements: Short summaries of recently released resources (e.g., books, articles, tools) and announcements for upcoming opportunities (e.g., trainings, events, conferences). (250 words max)

Ethical Considerations

Your submission is expected to align with the following ethical principles:

  • Integrity: Strive for complete accuracy and honesty, avoiding deception. Authors are responsible for ensuring the information presented is accurate and that references (if used) are valid, accurate, and support the stated claims.

Use of Generative AI Tools: Authors are not permitted to use Generative AI tools to write the content of their submission. The use of AI tools to assist with copyediting, reference management and language refinement is permitted. Research and scholarship-based submissions are expected to disclose how/if Generative AI tools were used in the research process. 

  • Fairness: Treat all subjects, sources, and stakeholders with respect, impartiality, and provide them with an opportunity to respond to criticism.
  • Do no harm:  Consider the potential consequences of publishing content related to individuals and communities and prevent all unnecessary harm or suffering. Ensure subjects of written and visual content have given express permission for the content to be shared. Remove names (or provide aliases) and remove any identifying information if there are risks. 
  • Accountability: Be transparent about the journalistic process, acknowledge and correct errors, and be responsive to feedback from readers and contributors.
  • Independence: Maintain our editorial autonomy, resisting outside influences or pressures that could compromise any of the other principles. This also refers to our desire to prioritize content that aligns with our Mission to promote and advance peace leadership, and to bridge the gap between theory and practice.  

How to Submit

If you are interested in contributing to the November 2026 issue, submit the following to the Peace Leadership Collaborative at info@peaceleadershipcollaborative.org.

  • An initial draft of your piece
    Please follow the maximum word count based on your submission type listed above.
  • Name, contact information, and short bios (50-100 words max) for the proposed contributors. Exception: a short bio is not needed for resources/announcements. 

We will accept submissions between August 3rd and 17th, 2026. Submissions may be provided earlier; however, any submission sent after 17 August 2026 will not be considered. 

If you have any questions, please email the PLC team at info@peaceleadershipcollaborative.org! 

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