Conflict Management and Peace Science is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

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 appearing five times a year that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews in the field of international relations

International relations

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 (specifically peace and conflict studies

Peace and conflict studies

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) on topics such as international conflict, arms race

Arms race

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s, international trade

International trade

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, foreign policy

Foreign policy analysis

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, international mediation

Mediation

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, and conflict resolution

Conflict resolution

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. The journal is published under the auspices of the Peace Science Society. The journal includes original and review articles.

Abstracting and indexing

Conflict Management and Peace Science is abstracted and indexed in Current Abstracts

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, Scopus

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, and the Social Sciences Citation Index

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2010 impact factor

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is 0.682, ranking it 34rd out of 73 journals in the category "International Relations".