Write for the Peace Chronicle

Opportunity to be published in the Peace Chronicle.

Pushpa Iyer, founder and coordinator of Compassionate Courage, is the editor of the summer 2022 issue of the Peace Chronicle, published by the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA). This issue explores “Courage.”

Courage for us is always staying true to one’s values, especially when we feel targeted and attacked. The readiness to be in uncomfortable spaces when witnessing injustices is also courage. Standing up and defending one’s values at significant risk to oneself may be understood as moral courage. Courage also involves remaining compassionate when challenging others or defending ourselves. We believe that cancelling others or using the same control tactics as the person responsible for the wrongdoing has very little to do with courage. Courage is also staying accountable to ourselves. Finally, courage keeps our minds open to new ideas, new cultures, new people, new beliefs, and new languages, all to unlearn and re-learn.

We welcome submissions that are related but not limited to the following themes:

  1. Courage vs Control

  2. The process of developing courage

  3. The emotion and psychological process of acting with courage

 Submissions may be in the form of:

  1. Brief scholarly discussions

  2. Personal stories

  3. Spoken-word, poems

  4. Music, Drawing, Painting with some written explanation

  5. Audio-Visual storytelling

  6. Any other creative platform (requires discussion with editor)

We prefer articles less than 1500 words but are open to discussing longer submissions. All submissions must be sent before 5:00 pm ET on Tuesday, June 7, 2022.

Do email me if you are interested in contributing to this issue and need to brainstorm topics. If you are ready with a submission, please submit it here.