Open Access Policy

All research articles published in “The Journal of Peace Strategies and Research (JoPSaR)” are fully open access, immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

​The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.

Publication Policy

The content should not have any unfounded/unproven allegations against anyone. The content should not have any defamatory content. The content should not accuse anyone based on newspaper reports. The content must not reflect any religious/ political biases. Any opinion must be stated as an opinion itself and not as a fact.

Hate language including but not limited to racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic speech will not be published. This includes the use of stereotypes and racial tropes and the denial of historical events. Submissions should adopt an academic approach, as opposed to, a polemical tone. 

There should be no Plagiarism. (The manuscript may be put through a plagiarism check and any sort of plagiarism would lead to disqualification). The author(s) would be solely liable for any liabilities arising out of any copyright or any other such infringement of any rights of any person. The content should be exclusive to JoPSaR and JoPSaR shall have all the authority to republish the work anywhere without the author(s)’s prior consent. 

Ethics Statement

It is critical for all of the publishing authors involved in the research to agree on ethical expectations. “The Journal of Peace Strategies and Research (JoPSaR)” has established global standards for all parties to achieve high ethical standards, and we expect everyone to follow them.

All authors submitting to JoPSaR are expected to voluntarily follow the below-mentioned international standards for authors. Authors must attest to the fact that their manuscripts are their own work. Plagiarism, duplicate publications, data fabrication and falsification, and redundant publication are all prohibited.

The authors must certify that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere (unpublished) and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, they must properly cite or quote those works and/or words, as well as identify all sources used in the preparation of their manuscripts.

When an author discovers a serious error or inaccuracy in his or her own published work, it is the author’s responsibility to contact the Journal editor or publisher as soon as possible and to collaborate with the editor in retracting or correcting the paper.