International Journal of Public Participation (IJP2) Inaugural Issue Now Online

 

The first issue of the official online publication of the International Association of Public Participation (which goes by the acronym IAP2) is up and running.  Its name

is appropriate to its organizational base: The International Journal of Public Participation, or IJP2.  Thus, its website is found at www.iap2.org/ijp2

The editor in chief of IJP2 is Dr. Michael Briand, who holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins

University in political theory, was a long time official at the Kettering Foundation, and is a member of the academic board of editors of, and contributor to, JPD.  Its board of editors and advisory board include many acclaimed researchers, writers and consultants in the fields of participatory and deliberative democracy.  According to its home page,

IJP2 will be in much the same business as JPD and, as such, is a welcome new partner

in helping develop the deliberative and participatory democracy movements—which are closely related. 

The first issue, Spring 2007, has a number of sections labeled:  “Comment,” “Features,” “Remarks,” “Classic,” “Interview,”  “Review” and “Forum.”  Its “express purpose” is to be an “online, multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information among researchers, practitioners, decision-makers, and citizens about public participation and its impact around the world.”  Its format is reader friendly.  Its content highly professional.