Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community

Gathering in the Motherland: Celebrating Ways of the Waters & Reconnecting to the Source

The Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community (JPIC) invites scholars and practitioners presenting at the 11th International Conference of Community Psychology (ICCP 2026) to submit their work for consideration in a special issue. The conference is hosted at Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria, from September 1–4, 2026 and organized under the leadership of Conference Chair Dr. Moshood Olanrewaju.

This special issue will provide a platform to expand and refine the ideas and insights shared at the conference, with the aim of further developing the field of community psychology.

ICCP 2026 gathers the community psychology field under the theme ‘Gathering in the Motherland: Celebrating Ways of the Waters & Reconnecting to the Source,’. This theme reflects a call to reflect on where the field has been and where it is going as planetary cousins — to reconnect, reconvene, and bring the power of community flows back to the communities of the region.

Theme and Scope
Submissions should be based on presentations delivered at ICCP 2026 and aligned with both the conference theme and JPIC's mission to explore impactful and transformative community research and action. We welcome contributions that critically engage with themes such as:
• Ancestral knowledge, lifeways, and reconnecting communities to cultural and ecological sources
• Water, land, and environmental justice; climate change and sustainability in a community context
• Social change, social innovation, and liberation psychology
• Participatory Action Research (PAR) and other mixed, multi-method, and empowering approaches to research and evaluation
• Multiculturalism, Indigenous and African epistemologies, and racial justice
• Economic equality, marginalized and impoverished communities
• Women and reproductive justice
• LGBTQ2/Gender and Sexual Minorities (GSM) human rights and advocacy
• Migration, displacement, diaspora, and the legacies of the transatlantic trade
• Social determinants of health and health equity
• Community organizing, coalition-building, civic engagement, and community activism
• Community-campus partnerships, collaborations, and networks, including U.S.–Africa and global-South collaborations
• Grassroots change efforts, creative economy, and arts-based community action
• Collaboratively advancing the well-being of vulnerable communities through innovative prevention and wellness programs
• Values and ethics
• Critical perspectives and applications of critical theory in the community
• Technological and social media innovations in promoting community health and well-being