Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

"Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" was established in 1977 by founding editor, Louis Kriesberg, the Maxwell Professor of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His vision was to create a scholarly publication outlet that would encourage dialogue and cross-fertilization across a number of related but too disconnected research literatures: social movements, conflict resolution, and social and political change....
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"Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" was established in 1977 by founding editor, Louis Kriesberg, the Maxwell Professor of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His vision was to create a scholarly publication outlet that would encourage dialogue and cross-fertilization across a number of related but too disconnected research literatures: social movements, conflict resolution, and social and political change. For more than 30 years RSMCC has been publishing peer-reviewed, top-level empirical and theoretical research that has helped define and advance the multiple fields reflected in the series title. Among the many superb scholars who have contributed to "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" are Elise Boulding, John Burton, Amitai Etzioni, Myra Marx Ferree, John Foran, Johan Galtung, William Gamson, Andre Gunder Frank, Craig Jenkins, Lester Kurtz, John Lofland, Jane Mansbridge, Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Alberto Melucci, Christopher Mitchell, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Pamela Oliver, Karl Dieter Opp, Sarah Soule, Suzanne Staggenborg, Jackie Smith, David Snow, Verta Taylor, Charles Tilly, and Mayer Zald. "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" has been hosted by the Center for Applied Conflict Management at Kent State University, USA, and edited by the Center Director and Associate Professor, Patrick G. Coy, since 2000.