About the Journal

The International Journal of Persecution, Equity, Apartheid, Colonialism, and Exile (IJPEACE) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed scholarly journal examining structural inequality, persecution, discrimination, colonialism, exclusion, displacement, and the distribution of rights, resources, opportunities, and power across societies.

The journal brings together scholarship from the social sciences, law, political economy, history, gender studies, international relations, technology policy, and environmental justice. It welcomes original research articles, literature reviews, comparative studies, theoretical contributions, legal analyses, and policy research addressing historical and contemporary forms of injustice and the institutions, systems, and processes that sustain or challenge them.

IJPEACE encourages rigorous, evidence-based inquiry from diverse geographical, disciplinary, and theoretical perspectives. Its thematic areas include social stratification and institutional discrimination; political and economic power; colonialism and historical injustice; conflict, forced migration, and human rights; artificial intelligence and emerging inequalities; environmental justice; and legal and policy responses to systemic disadvantage.

The journal is committed to scholarly independence, intellectual openness, research integrity, methodological rigor, ethical responsibility, and independent peer review. Editorial decisions are guided by originality, relevance, quality, and evidentiary support, irrespective of an author's viewpoint or conclusions. IJPEACE seeks to advance interdisciplinary dialogue and contribute to a deeper understanding of structural injustice, institutional accountability, equity, and human dignity.

Scope and Disciplines

IJPEACE welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship across the following ten academic disciplines:

  1. Persecution Studies: Systematic persecution, identity-based violence, religious and ethnic persecution, political repression, minority targeting, state-sponsored persecution, and institutional mechanisms that enable or resist persecution.

  2. Apartheid, Racial Studies and Segregation: Apartheid systems, racial domination, institutionalized segregation, racial hierarchy, structural racism, racialized citizenship, unequal rights, and comparative studies of regimes of racial exclusion.

  3. Colonialism, Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies: Colonial rule, imperial domination, colonial administration, dispossession, settler colonialism, decolonization, indigenous rights, historical injustice, and the continuing institutional legacies of colonialism.

  4. Exile, Forced Displacement and Refugee Studies: Political exile, forced migration, statelessness, refugee protection, displacement, deportation, citizenship deprivation, territorial exclusion, and the legal and social conditions of displaced populations.

  5. Equity, Social Justice and Structural Inequality: Distributive and procedural equity, unequal access to rights and opportunities, social exclusion, institutional disadvantage, intersectionality, and mechanisms for addressing systemic inequality.

  6. Sociology, Caste and Social Stratification: Caste-based exclusion, class hierarchy, racial and ethnic stratification, religious marginalization, social mobility, discrimination, and the reproduction of unequal social structures.

  7. Law, Human Rights and International Justice: International human rights law, anti-discrimination frameworks, crimes against humanity, persecution under international law, minority protections, access to justice, accountability, and legal remedies for historical and contemporary injustice.

  8. Political Science, Power and Institutional Accountability: State power, authoritarianism, political repression, democratic exclusion, institutional discrimination, political representation, social movements, and the relationships between power and inequality.

  9. Political Economy and Economic Exclusion: Wealth concentration, labor exploitation, economic dispossession, unequal resource distribution, corporate and state power, economic marginalization, and the material foundations of structural inequality.

  10. Technology, Governance and Emerging Forms of Discrimination: Algorithmic discrimination, digital surveillance, automated exclusion, technological control, unequal access to digital systems, and the implications of artificial intelligence for rights, equity, persecution, and institutional power.

IJPEACE particularly welcomes research connecting these disciplines to examine how persecution, apartheid, colonialism, exile, and structural inequality are produced, institutionalized, resisted, and transformed across historical and contemporary contexts. Submissions must demonstrate scholarly originality, analytical rigor, appropriate methodology, and conclusions supported by credible evidence.