About the Journal

The ARSU Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (AJIS) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Amhara Region State University (ARSU). The journal promotes high-quality research that integrates perspectives across disciplines, encouraging innovative approaches to complex local, regional, and global challenges.

The journal particularly welcomes contributions that connect fields such as political economy and development, public management and governance, project management and development practice, conflict, peace, and security studies, interdisciplinary approaches to governance and stability, regional and comparative perspectives, sustainable development and environmental governance, globalization, regional integration, and international relations; innovation, technology, and digital transformation; human rights, justice, and inclusive governance; humanitarian studies and crisis management; leadership and communication; institutional culture, capacity building, and knowledge systems; and the economy–security nexus.

AJIS particularly encourages contributions that integrate diverse fields, including:

  • Political economy and development
  • Public management, governance, and project development practice
  • Conflict, peace, and security studies
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to governance and stability
  • Regional and comparative perspectives
  • Sustainable development and environmental governance
  • Globalization, regional integration, and international relations
  • Innovation, technology, and digital transformation
  • Human rights, justice, and inclusive governance
  • Humanitarian studies and crisis management
  • Leadership and communication
  • Institutional culture, capacity building, and knowledge systems
  • The economy–security nexus

By welcoming scholarship across these domains, AJIS positions itself as a hub for advancing interdisciplinary dialogue, promoting knowledge exchange, and supporting evidence‑based solutions to pressing societal issues.