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• Call for Papers - African Conflict and Peace Review
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• UPEACE HQ web site
• UPEACE Africa Programme
• UPEACE Central Asia Programme
• Institute for Media, Peace and Security
• Peace & Conflict Monitor
• Reliefweb
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UPEACE/Geneva eNews,
Issue March 2006-03

Thanks for reading this issue of UPEACE/Geneva eNews. This newsletter is aimed at providing updates and news from UPEACE and its regional programmes with special focus on the Africa and Central Asia programmes, which are coordinated through the Geneva office. In addition it will provide information on UPEACE publications and new developments, new documents available on the Africa programme, and Workshops/Seminars / Conferences being offered through the Africa and Central Asia programmes.
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Issued by UPEACE Geneva.
Editor: Ameena Payne, Executive Director University for Peace Geneva Office. For further queries please contact enews@upeace.ch

• The submission must be original.
• The submission should not already have been published elsewhere.
• Papers should average between 5 000 and 7 500 words (including footnotes) in length.
• If the manuscript is not sent by e-mail, it should be submitted as hard copy and in electronic format (MS Word).
• The manuscript should be typed in Arial, 12 point (footnotes 10 point), 1½ spacing.
• Authors of contributions are to supply their university degrees, professional qualifications and professional or academic status.
• Authors should supply a summary of their contributions of not more than 300 words.
• Footnotes must be numbered consecutively. Footnote numbers should be in superscript without any surrounding brackets.

The manuscript will be submitted to a referee or referees for evaluation. The editors reserve the right to change manuscripts to make them conform with the house style, to improve accuracy, to eliminate mistakes and ambiguity, and to bring the manuscript in line with the tenets of plain legal language.

• First reference to books: eg N Biggar Burying the past: Making peace and doing justice after civil conflict (2001) 21.
• First reference to journal articles: eg A Mazrui 'Towards containing conflict in Africa: Methods, mechanisms and values' (1995) 2 East Africa Journal of Peace and Human Rights 81.
• Reference to websites: http://www.upeace.org (accessed 24 March 2006).
• No ibid, supra, etc.
• Subsequent references to footnote in which first reference was made: eg Patel & Watters (n 34 above) 243.
• Use UK English.
• Proper nouns used in the body of the article are written out in full the first time they are used, but abbreviated the next time, eg the United Nations (UN).
• Words such as 'article' and 'section' are written out in full in the text. Where possible, abbreviations should be used in footnotes, eg ch; para; paras; art; arts; sec; secs. No full stops should be used.
• Words in a foreign language should be italicised.
• Numbering should be done as follows:
  1
  2
  3.1
  3.2.1
• Smart single quotes should be used; if something is quoted within a quotation, double quotation marks should be used for that section.
• Quotations longer than twenty words should be indented and in 10 point, in which case no quotation marks are necessary.
• The names of authors should be written as follows: FH Anant.
• Where more than one author are involved, use ‘&’: eg FH Anant & SCH Mahlangu.
• Dates should be written as follows (in text and footnotes): 28 November 2001.
• Numbers up to ten are written out in full; from 11 use numerals.
• Capitals are not used for generic terms – eg ‘protocol’, but when a specific protocol is referred to, capitals are used – ‘Protocol on the Peace and Security Council’.
• Official titles are capitalised: eg 'the President of Liberia’.