Call for Papers

Perspectives, scopes, and challenges of 2030 Agenda within the post pandemic context

Coordinators of the monograph

Heike Clara Pintor | e-mail: hcpintor@comillas.edu | Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE

Analilia Huitrón| e-mail: ahuitron@comillas.edu | Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE

Claudia Ocman | e-mail: claudia.ocman@correo.buap.mx | Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

The international commitment to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the social and economic recovery post-pandemic and the climate crisis require redefining the paradigm and instrumentation of international development cooperation, motivating its transition towards a comprehensive approach to the reality of interdependence, multipolarity and multi-stakeholders in the international context, as well as the incorporation of all social sectors without leaving anyone behind and a sustainability approach to achieve a sustainable and inclusive development behind the pandemic.

With the intention of reflecting in these aspects, the aim objective of this special number is to analyze the different perspectives, scopes, and challenges around achieving sustainable and inclusive development in a post-pandemic context. To do this, the document would analyze the following issues:

  1. Attention to climate crisis and energy transition from the different actors.
  2. Responses to the challenges of human mobility and migration governance.
  3. Advances and omissions in the fulfillment of gender equality as a promoter of an inclusive development.
  4. The cultural agenda as facto to achieve sustainable and inclusive development.
  5. Sustainable cities: a fruitful space for local development.
  6. The guarantee of human rights to not leave anyone behind on the road to post-pandemic recovery.
  7. International Cooperation as a facilitator of sustainable and inclusive development post-pandemic.

Schedule

Those interested in participating should send by January 30, 2023, an abstract (300 words) summarizing their proposal, as well as their basic curricular data for evaluation by the Scientific Committee of Comillas Journal of International Relations. The final text must be submitted by March 30, 2023.

 

Terrorism as a security threat: history, evolution and remaining challenges

Coordinators of the monograph

Dr. Javier Gil Pérez jgil@comillas.edu | Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE

Alfredo Crespo Alcázar | Universidad Internacional de Valencia y Universidad Antonio de Nebrija

Terrorism is one of the main threats confronting open societies in the 21st century. Through its repeated manifestations, it has tangibly demonstrated its capacity to generate a double and complementary vulnerability, physical and psychological, as well as to provoke direct and indirect victims, with the aim of altering the conduct and behavior of the binomial formed by public opinion-political authorities.

Likewise, due to its trajectory, terrorism has demonstrated a desire for permanence, first adapting and then instrumentalizing contexts that were initially hostile to its aims and expectations. We must therefore assume that we are faced with a threat (transnational) and an enemy (asymmetrical) with which we will have to coexist in the coming decades. While we could initially simplify the situation by dividing it into local vs. international terrorism, actors such as the so-called "lone wolves" have now consolidated their prominence (and lethality). In addition, we have also observed a simplicity in the instruments used to carry out attacks, which facilitates the commission of attacks and increases fear in society.

In recent years, taking the response to the 9/11 attacks as a starting point, there has been an increase in cooperation and coordination at various levels, as certified by various EUROPOL reports: on the one hand, between states themselves, and on the other, between supranational organizations and states. Even so, it has not been enough insofar as the message of terrorism continues to be attractive to a wide public that reaches it through the Internet and social networks, and certain regional enclaves have features (poverty, failed states, lack of legitimacy of authorities and institutions) that facilitate the emergence or accommodation of terrorist organizations that, on occasions, coexist and interact with organized crime groups.

As a result, terrorism has become an object of study in a wide range of disciplines, from history to journalism, including law, economics, literature and criminology. In this issue, professors, academics, researchers, and members of law enforcement agencies are invited to participate by submitting articles, bibliographic essays and reviews of recently published works on any of the following topics:

  1. History of terrorism.
  2. Analysis of terrorist organizations either individually or in a comparative perspective.
  3. Radicalization processes, radicalization prevention programs and deradicalization programs.
  4. Victims as ethical and moral referents.
  5. Terrorism on the agenda of national governments and supranational organizations.
  6. Regional scenarios and terrorism.

Schedule

Those interested in participating should send by September 15, 2022, an abstract (300 words) summarizing their proposal, as well as their basic curricular data for evaluation by the Scientific Committee of Comillas Journal of International Relations. The final text must be submitted by December 15, 2022.

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