About the Journal
Leadership and Developing Societies is an academic peer-reviewed journal published by the African Leadership Centre at King's College London. It motivates original thinking and high-quality analysis on the interaction between leadership and the security–development nexus, with a global focus on the developing world.
Aims & Scope
The journal fills an important gap by examining leadership as a distinctive aspect of security and development processes — not simply as a by-product of institution building. It provides empirically grounded analysis of the interactions between security and development, and bridges the theory and practice of leadership in developing societies.
Submissions
The journal receives and publishes academic work from scholars of all ages at all levels of career. We welcome submissions from junior scholars, especially those from the Global South and including graduate and doctoral candidates. The journal has an expressed agenda to give space and voice to scholars not afforded opportunities to publish elsewhere; and provides additional peer-review rounds and support to younger authors to assist in that endeavour.
Prior to submitting any article please contact the Managing Editor.
Policy on Generative AI
Authors must disclose any use of generative AI tools in the preparation of their manuscript, including the specific tool used and the nature of the contribution. AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, and integrity of their work.
Corrections and Retractions Policy
The journal follows the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines for handling errata, corrections, and retractions. Substantive errors that affect the interpretation of an article will be addressed through a formal correction notice linked to the original article via Crossmark.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. Download logs are stored using SHA-256 hashes of IP addresses for analytics only.
ISSN & Indexing
ISSN: 2399-2859 (online). DOIs are assigned through the African Leadership Centre's Crossref membership with prefix 10.47697.
License
All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Authors retain copyright.