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Aims and Scope
The Journal of Humanitarian Affairs is an open access journal hosted jointly by Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires MSF (Paris) and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. Contributing to current thinking around humanitarian governance, policy and practice with academic rigour and political courage, the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs challenges contributors and readers to think critically about humanitarian issues that are often approached from reductionist assumptions about what experience and evidence mean. The journal engages with contemporary, historical, methodological and applied subject matters through diverse online content, including peer reviewed articles, expert interviews, policy analyses, literature reviews and ‘spotlight’ features.
The journal was founded on the belief that the sector is growing and facing severe ethical and practical challenges. The Journal of Humanitarian Affairs provides a space for serious and inter-disciplinary academic and practitioner exchanges on pressing issues of international interest.
The journal aims to be a home and platform for leading thinkers on humanitarian affairs, a place where ideas are tested, controversies are aired and new research is published and scrutinised. Areas in which submissions are considered include humanitarian financing, migrations and responses, the history of humanitarian aid, failed humanitarian interventions, media representations of humanitarianism, the changing landscape of humanitarianism, the response of states to foreign interventions and critical debates on concepts such as resilience or security.
Journal information
Ethics: Manchester University Press is committed to upholding high ethical standards across all of its journals and providing guidance in order to meet these standards. See here for a summary of our expectations for authors, reviewers and editors.
Copyright notice: Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND), which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. The work may not be remixed, transformed or built upon and any reuse or sharing must be non-commercial.
Peer Review process: Submissions to the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs will undergo a blind peer review process by two reviewers. We rely on experts for candid but fair advice in our review process. We operate a ‘double-blind’ refereeing process whereby author(s) and reviewers never know each other’s identities.
AI policy: In line with the broader MUP AI policy, the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs does not accept submissions that have been generated, wholly or in part, by means of Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT) or other AI tools. The use of AI and other tools for copy-editing of existing text (e.g. to improve readability and style, to ensure that the texts are free of errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation) is permitted but must be explicitly acknowledged in the cover letter, including specification of the tools used and explanation of the ways in which they were used. In case non-disclosed use of AI tools is detected, the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs may remove submissions from the editorial review process.
Publication fee
The Journal of Humanitarian Affairs is a fully Open Access journal. No fee is payable by the author or their institution to submit or publish in the journal. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Alternative Creative Commons licences can be used, and if this is required (e.g. by a funding institution or UKRI), authors must inform the Editors when their article is accepted. Authors can also self-archive their Accepted Manuscript on their personal or departmental website, or an institutional or non-commercial subject repository upon acceptance. For more information on Open Access and journals, see here