''Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

book series that covers sociological research on social conflict, social movements,

collective behavior The expression collective behavior was first used by Franklin Henry Giddings and employed later by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess, Herbert Blumer, Ralph H. Turner and Lewis Killian, and Neil Smelser to refer to social processes and events w ...

, and social change. The journal also publishes reviews of books on these topics. It was established in 1977 and is published by

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. The journal's founding editor-in-chief was Louis Kriesberg (

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). Since 2010, the editor is Patrick G. Coy ( Kent State University).

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