Conflict-Resilient Cities: Planning, Recovery and Transformation under Protracted Crises
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Call for Papers
Conflict-Resilient Cities: Planning, Recovery and Transformation under Protracted Crises
Journal: Future Cities
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Special Issue
Manuscript Submission Opens: 10 August 2026
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026
Future Cities invites submissions for a Special Issue advancing research on conflict-resilient urban development, with particular attention to how cities can anticipate, absorb, adapt to, recover from, and transform under prolonged armed conflicts while pursuing sustainability, resilience, and long-term development.
About the Special Issue
Armed conflicts increasingly affect entire urban systems, disrupting critical infrastructure, housing, transportation, energy, healthcare, water, communications, governance, economies, ecosystems, and communities. While substantial research has documented urban destruction, greater attention is needed on how conflict-affected cities can recover while becoming more resilient, sustainable, inclusive, and liveable.
This Special Issue approaches cities as complex socio-technical systems and seeks interdisciplinary research connecting engineering, urban planning, architecture, geography, environmental science, economics, public policy, digital technologies, and social sciences. It particularly encourages research that moves beyond rebuilding damaged assets toward transformative, community-centred, and evidence-based urban recovery.
Topics of Interest
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Conflict-resilient urban planning
Governance of conflict-affected cities
Urban recovery and reconstruction
Critical infrastructure resilience
Resilience of urban services
Infrastructure interdependencies and cascading failures
Digital twins for urban recovery
Artificial intelligence for damage assessment
Smart technologies for reconstruction
Satellite remote sensing
Geospatial analytics
Urban data platforms
Digital technologies for evidence-based recovery planning
Urban resilience metrics and indicators
Decision-support systems for reconstruction
Community resilience
Social equity in urban recovery
Participatory planning
Stakeholder engagement in reconstruction
Inclusive governance
Climate adaptation and conflict interactions
Heritage protection
Cultural resilience
Resilient urban mobility
Resilient transportation systems
Circular economy approaches to reconstruction
Sustainable reconstruction
Recovery financing and economic resilience
International experiences in post-conflict recovery
Comparative studies of conflict-affected cities
Preferred Article Types
The Special Issue welcomes:
Original interdisciplinary research
Review papers
Methodological advances
Policy analyses
International case studies
Research Focus
The Special Issue particularly seeks contributions that:
Develop new conceptual and methodological approaches to conflict-affected cities
Integrate engineering, planning, governance, economics, digital technologies, and social sciences
Embed resilience, sustainability, and liveability throughout reconstruction
Apply AI, digital twins, remote sensing, and geospatial analytics to recovery planning
Examine governance, financing, stakeholder engagement, and participatory reconstruction
Identify transferable lessons from international conflict and recovery experiences
Research connecting technological innovation with community participation, governance, resilience, sustainability, and long-term urban transformation is particularly relevant.
Submission Information
Submission Opens: 10 August 2026
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026
Manuscripts should be submitted through the Future Cities ScholarOne Manuscripts system.
Submit via ScholarOne
Authors must select “Conflict-resilient cities: Planning, recovery and transformation under protracted crises” from the Special Issue options during submission.
Submitted manuscripts must follow the journal's author guidelines, be original, and must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere while under review.
Guest Editors
Dr Nadiia Kopiika
Emails: n.kopiika@ucl.ac.uk; nadiia.s.kopiika@lpnu.ua
Dr Giorgia Giardina
Email: G.Giardina@tudelft.nl
Dr Ivan Brusak
Email: ivan.v.brusak@lpnu.ua
Prof Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis
Email: s.mitoulis@ucl.ac.uk
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