Peace Studies Journal
Volume 19 Issue 2
September 2026
Editors
Dr. Jennifer Salerno and Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About Peace Studies Journal 4
Submission Guidelines 5-6
Editorial Team 7-8
ESSAYS
The Positive-Negative Conflict Paradigm: Rethinking the Moral Dynamics of Peace and Transformation
Aliyu Sani Kafinga 10-43
Traditional Approaches to Conflict Resolution in the Balikumbat and Ndop Subdivisions of Cameroon
NKIENE Claude Désiré Tinoh 44-62
The Twin Brothers of Rift: Ego and Entitlement in Conflict, Peace, and Human Relations
Emunotor Efetobore 63-77
The Interfaces of Repressions and Social Movements in Ethiopia from 1991-2018
Debela Fituma Mamo 78-99
The Rhetoric of Peace
Brion White 100-111
Communicative Craft Literacy, Communicative Craft Competence and First Principles Thinking: Rethinking Newsroom Bureaucracy for Decolonial Peace in Zimbabwe
James Chingono 112-126
An Alienating Institution: Navigating Social Reintegration After Long-Term Incarceration
Rosheka Faulkner 127-137
BOOK REVIEWS
Emotional Choices: How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy, by Robin Markwica (Oxford University Press, 2018)
David Lempert 138-141
A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, by Lisa Pease (Feral House, 2019); The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy, by Peter Dale Scott (Roman & Littlefield, 2014)
David Lempert 142-153
OPINION
Hormuz Dilemma & Regional Geopolitics
Shoaib Baloch 154-156