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Forgotten conflicts
Nagorno-Karabakh, Western Sahara, Northern Uganda – these are only three of currently more than 100 ongoing conflicts on this planet, most of them never receive any coverage in Western media. These conflicts are shunned by the international community and go unnoticed. They are “forgotten conflicts”.
openDemocracy launches a new series of graduate student articles on the theme of “forgotten conflicts”. We seek submissions from graduate students from around the world who present and analyze conflicts that are not commonly referred to in the mainstream media. This is your chance to bring attention to an issue that you think has been forgotten.
Criteria
Your article should meet the following criteria in order to be considered for publication on openDemocracy.net:
• Please try and keep article length to 1000-1500 words.
• We serve a global audience. So, please avoid references to region-specific arguments,
institutions or artifacts without providing a simple explanation for a non-regional audience.
• Please supply us with any links that provide context, explanation or further reading for your piece.
• You are encouraged to send us a brief outline of your project before starting to work on it.
• Articles should be written in non-academic essay style.
Your article will be published in our openSecurity section under creative commons copyrights. It will reach a global audience of journalists, scholars, policy-makers, students, and other interested readers. We are planning to feature this theme as an ongoing series; we will therefore accept submissions on a rolling basis.
Please send any submissions to forgotten.conflicts@opendemocracy.net
Lest we forget: Lessons from historic conflicts
openSecurity asks emanant historians for their thoughts on what might be learnt from the study of bygone wars.
'Lest we forget' is one of our first new projects, asking historians to contribute short articles outlining what we ought to remember and learn from past conflicts. To take a single example among many, one might feel the FLN pioneered the tactics of urban terrorism now employed by the Pakistani Taliban and that the French response is one not worth repeating.
What you can expect
The series allows historians to reach and engage with a type of audience which may otherwise be inaccessible. openDemocracy has over three million individual readers annually and a strong relationship with the academic community. Our regular contributors include Profs. Fred Halliday, Mary Kaldor, Martin Shaw, Timothy Garton Ash and Paul Rogers, and many of our authors secure future media appearances from among our many subscribers in media organisations.
openDemocracy is a charitable non-profit organisation and will be unable to pay authors in the series a contributor's fee. However, funding for the project is being actively sought and should this be successful all contributors will be remunerated.
Criteria
Your article should meet the following criteria:
• Please try and keep article length to 1000-1500 words.
• Footnotes are not necessary, any sources explicitly referred to can be embedded as hyperlinks in the text if desired.
• You are encouraged to send us a brief outline of your project before starting to work on it.
• Bearing in mind openDemocracy's global audience, articles should be written in an accessible non-academic essay style.
Your article will be published in our openSecurity section under creative commons copyrights unless otherwise specified. It will reach a global audience of journalists, scholars, policy-makers, students, and other interested readers.
We are planning to feature this theme as an ongoing series; we will therefore accept submissions on a rolling basis.
Please send any submissions to
daniel.macarthur-seal@opendemocracy.net
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal
openDemocracy security editor
Tel. 07868119526
