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Publication Policy

Publication Policies and criteria

June 2022

Committee for Peace in Afghanistan (CPA) is an independent non-profit organization committed to peace, nonpartisanship, and inclusiveness. CPA’s advocacy efforts, field work, and publications are exclusively aimed at promoting national unity, peace, tolerance, human rights, civic discourse, education, socio-economic advancement, and good governance in Afghanistan.  By pursuing these overarching goals, we are promoting public welfare, peaceful living, economic development, and social harmony in Afghanistan. All our efforts are aimed at 1) identifying the root causes of the war that has gripped Afghanistan and 2) finding ways to ameliorate the colossal human suffering that has claimed millions of victims among the last two generations of Afghanistan.

Geared to promoting these ideals, the CPA’s website is designed to deliver content that is rich, accurate, informative, and that reflects the human/cultural/outlook diversity of the Afghan society. This website introduces Afghanistan not from a single point of view, but from the points of view of all its peoples as one nation. We welcome research articles, analysis, commentaries, and opinions about Afghanistan’s society, politics, state, economy, history, culture, languages, music, and literature. We only publish material that come from trusted and dependable sources, as well as from authors/intellectuals, whose work promote and strengthen the causes of unity, peace, and social harmony in Afghanistan. The website is published in three languages: English, Persian, and Pashtu. The CPA is bound by the principle of civic discourse that steers away from personal/group and cultural conflicts, and by showing the path to a future for Afghanistan that is free of war, injustice, discrimination, misogyny, and fear from-each-other.

Our Editorial Board applies the following policies and criteria towards the selection of materials for publication:

  1. Publication Policies:
  2. Only materials that are consistent with our goals, including promoting peace, social harmony, and public welfare in Afghanistan will be published.
  3. Only materials that have educational value for the public and raise public awareness will be published.
  4. To defend human rights, particularly the rights of women and children.
  5. To only publish material that is informative, accurate, and unbiased.
  6. To only publish material that meets the standard requirements of courteous and intellectual language.
  7. To not publish any material in which the content is contrary to our goal of promoting peace, or the source of which is not known or appears not to be trustworthy.
  8. Hateful and abusive language, divisive statements, disinformation, and propaganda will be strictly weeded out of the publication.
  9. To not publish any material aimed at slander and libel that attack persons or smear groups of Afghans inside or outside of Afghanistan.
  10. Content not consistent with the morals and religious beliefs of the people of Afghanistan shall not be published on CPA’s website.
  • Articles published on the website reflect the authors’ opinions and analysis, i.e., they do not reflect CPA’s institutional position on issues discussed.
  • We reserve the right to reject, edit, and or correct the information or articles sent to us.
  1. Publication Criteria:
  2. Consistency with the bylaws and mission statement of CPA.
  3. Accuracy, objectivity, and consistency of the content.
  4. Correct name and address of the author.
  5. Originality of the material (reprints are discouraged other than those articles of high informative value). Material suspected of plagiarism will not be published.
  6. Analytical content and accuracy of statistical and historical data.
  7. Educational value of the article.
  8. Length of the article (less than 1000 words is deemed to be optimal)
  9. Quality of language (grammar and style).
  10. Truth and impartiality of the content and method of presentation.
  • Value of the material in terms of promoting peace and social harmony in Afghanistan.
  • Consistency of the material with the accepted goals of promoting truth, freedom of thought, and intellectual honesty.
  • Relevance and timeliness of the article (with regard to the current and future situation of Afghanistan).
  • Published materials may be corrected, retracted, or removed.

Note:  Material published on CPA’s website may be redistributed with proper citation.