Citation
Graham-Kevan, N., Ireland, J.L., Davies, M. and Fry, D.P. (2013), "Editorial", Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, Vol. 5 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/jacpr.2013.55005aaa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Editorial
Article Type: Editorial From: Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, Volume 5, Issue 1
Welcome to the first issue of volume 5 of the Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research (JACPR). In keeping with our philosophy, this issue includes articles of interest to a wide range of academics and practitioners.
The issue begins with an interesting and timely paper by Nicola Beardsley and Anthony Beech, on applying the Violent Extremist Risk Assessment (VERA) to a sample of terrorist case studies. The authors detail the difficulties in assessing risk in this diverse category of offender, particularly where consensus within the research and clinical field is not clear. The VERA is discussed and applied to historic case studies, which finds that the VERA shows promising results that suggest further study.
The second paper is an article by Gloria Macassa et al., and explores psychological abuse among elderly people in Europe, using a cross European study. Self-report data from elderly men and women aged between 60 and 84 years was collected from seven EU countries. With prevalence rates of between 10 and 30 per cent found, this paper highlights the importance of exploring this neglected form of abuse in an under researched, but vulnerable population such as the elderly.
The third paper by Darlington Mutanda is a discussion paper on the politicisation, dynamics and violence of Zimbabwe’s land reform. The paper explores how the dynamics of land reform changed between 1980 and 2000, the nature of violence used, and the politics behind it. The paper discusses some of the major scholarly arguments surrounding Zimbabwe’s land reform in order to place the study with the contemporary academic discourse.
The final paper focusses on sibling aggression and is authored by Inês Carvalho Relva et al. using a large student sample from Portugal; this article explores the co-occurrence of sibling aggression and child to parent aggression. In addition, it also investigates the relationship between the use of sibling aggression in childhood and subsequent intimate partner violence in adults.
As always this issue includes a broad range of papers using different methodologies. We believe that practitioners and researchers will find them interesting and informative, and we welcome the submission of papers from readers which can further illuminate our understanding of human conflict and peace. Submissions can be made through our ScholarOne site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jacpr
Nicola Graham-Kevan, Jane L. Ireland, Michelle Davies, Douglas P. Fry