New ICM journal - made by Alumni

By: Robert

Chinta is one out of a group of Alumni who dedicates much of her time to create this new journal the journals "birth".

"The ICM (Intercultural Conflict Management) journal is proposed to be a scholarly and professional journal that will feature articles written by students/scholars, researchers and practitioners in the area of conflict and intercultural work" says Chinta Musundi.

 

To learn more, read the following text that Chinta wrote me in an e-mail on Feb 13th:

 

"In respond to your email, I have thought it necessary to explain the

foreseen credibility of the proposed journal, whose standards will be in

coherence with other scholarly journals. Likewise, I will also discuss why

I think an ICM journal is an asset to the institution, conflict

professionals and most importantly to the ICM alumni.

 

Your Canadian friend raised the issue of attraction of established

scholars to our proposed journal. On this note, the ICM journal is

proposed to be a scholarly and professional journal that will feature

articles written by students/scholars, researchers and practitioners in

the area of conflict and intercultural work. And the same, peer groups of

researchers, scholars/students, professionals and practitioners within the

intercultural work and conflict field will be the prospective audience

for our scholarly literature.

 

As already initiated, we are going to have an Editorial Board. Prof Nowak

and some of his colleagues have already acknowledged our invitation of

being editorial and advisory board members. We are still seeking more. If

you know any, please entreat them too.

 

Normally, articles in some scholarly and professional journals are either

peer-reviewed or are selected by an editorial board. In our case, we chose

the latter, though this decision is not absolute. Standards of scholarship

in such journals are often equal or comparable to those of peer-reviewed

publications, although this is not always the case. If the question of

credibility arises, like you already have, which is unlikely, then we can

opt for peer review, which is a well-accepted indicator of quality

scholarship. Nonetheless, I have confidence in our Editorial board which

will comprises a number of recognized researchers and professionals in the

field, thus they will have the capacity to evaluate a manuscript and

recommend its publication, revision, or rejection.

Moreover, the editorial and advisory board will help the editors in making

decisions about which manuscripts are suitable for our journal, thereby

helping editors and authors in their efforts to improve the quality of

reporting and manuscript publication. Furthermore, an independent

editorial advisory board will be useful in helping the editors establish

and maintain editorial policy. So far, we already have a small team of

editors that includes Leila, myself and others yet to come on board. Just

for your information, editors will be responsible for its entire content

and publication and our common endeavour will be the publication of a

reliable and readable journal, produced with due respect for the stated

aims of the journal.

 

Last but not least, I would like to reinstate the value of our prospective

journal. We envision that our journal articles are probably an extremely

valuable source of information, which I believe the ICM alumni and other

conflict specialists should not be denied a chance to access. I have

confidence that it will attract scholars because our editorial board will

be made of established and esteemed academicians and researchers."