Call for Papers (CFP):

Theme: Veterans, Disability, & Civil Rights: Accountability in Institutional Systems

Focus Areas:

Disability, identity, and civil rights status of veterans across institutional settings

• Invisible, episodic, and complex disabilities (PTSD, TBI, moral injury, chronic illness, neurodivergence)
• Institutional compliance, noncompliance, and enforcement gaps under ADA, Section 504, IDEA, and related statutes
• Veteran encounters with healthcare, legal, carceral, child welfare, and administrative systems
• Structural discrimination, systemic bias, and procedural harm within public and private institutions
• Trauma-informed policy, practice, and institutional design
• Gatekeeping, eligibility determinations, and administrative burden as civil rights barriers
• Intersectionality (race, gender, sexuality, class, age, family status) in veteran disability experiences
• Data, documentation, and evidentiary standards that disadvantage disabled veterans
• Comparative, international, and cross-sector analyses of veteran disability protections
• Lived experience, autoethnography, and practitioner-scholar perspectives
• Accountability mechanisms, remedies, and reform models for institutional failure

Abstract Deadline: January 30

Notification: February 28

Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: March 30

Publication Release: May 30

This CFP can also be located at CSI Spring 2026 : Disability, identity, and civil rights status of veterans across institutional settings

Theme: Justice-Involved Veterans & Court-Mandated Systems

Focus Areas:

• Veterans’ courts, diversion programs, and specialty dockets: access, equity, and outcomes
• Court-mandated treatment, compliance models, and coercive care frameworks
• Incarceration, probation, parole, and supervision systems affecting veterans with disabilities
• Trauma, disability, and due process in criminal, family, and administrative courts
• Ethical, legal, and clinical concerns in coerced, compulsory, or conditional treatment
• Gatekeeping, eligibility criteria, and discretionary power within veterans’ justice pathways
• Institutional bias, procedural harm, and disparate impact on disabled and marginalized veterans
• Risk assessment tools, evaluations, and forensic determinations involving PTSD, TBI, and moral injury
• Intersectionality (race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, family roles) in justice-involved veteran outcomes
• Data practices, compliance metrics, and documentation requirements that create barriers or punishment
• Alternatives to carceral models, restorative justice, and community-based accountability frameworks
• Lived experience, practitioner-scholar, legal advocate, and clinician perspectives
• Oversight, accountability mechanisms, and reform models for court-mandated and correctional systems

Abstract Deadline:  March 30

Notification: April 30

Full Manuscript Submission Deadline:  May 30

Publication Release:  July 30

This CFP can also be located at CSI Summer 2026 : Justice-Involved Veterans & Court-Mandated Systems

Theme: System Accountability, Policy Reform & Evidence-Based Change

Focus Areas:

• Correctional healthcare, mental health treatment, and disability accommodations within jails, prisons, and detention facilities
• Probation, parole, monitoring, and compliance regimes as extended systems of control
• Reentry, reintegration, and collateral consequences affecting housing, employment, education, and family reunification
• Trauma, disability, and due process in post-conviction and supervisory systems
• Ethical, legal, and clinical challenges in continued coercive or conditional treatment after sentencing
• Gatekeeping, eligibility determinations, and administrative discretion in reentry and veterans’ service access
• Institutional bias, procedural harm, and cumulative disadvantage across the justice continuum
• Risk management tools, evaluations, and surveillance practices impacting veterans with PTSD, TBI, and moral injury
• Intersectionality (race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, age, family roles) in post-court outcomes
• Data practices, compliance tracking, and information sharing that perpetuate punishment or exclusion
• Alternatives to punitive supervision, restorative justice, and community-based reentry models
• Lived experience, practitioner-scholar, legal advocate, and clinician perspectives
• Oversight, accountability mechanisms, and reform models for correctional and reentry systems

Abstract Deadline: May 30

Notification: June 30

Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: July 30

Publication Release:  September 30

This CFP can also be located at CSI Fall 2026 : System Accountability, Policy Reform & Evidence-Based Change

Veteran Trauma, Moral Injury & Accountability in Complex Care Systems

Focus Areas:

• Combat trauma, moral injury, and complex disability as civil rights and public health issues
• PTSD, TBI, moral injury, and co-occurring conditions across the lifespan
• Complex trauma, polytrauma, and intersecting mental, physical, and neurological conditions
• Long-term, intergenerational, and cumulative outcomes of combat exposure
• Fragmentation, gaps, and failures in trauma-informed healthcare and social service systems
• Continuity of care, care coordination, and transitions between VA, DoD, and civilian systems
• Ethical, legal, and human subjects’ considerations in veteran mental health and trauma research
• Risk, harm, and unintended consequences of pharmacological, behavioral, and experimental treatments
• Access, equity, and disparities in complex trauma care delivery
• Institutional power, consent, and coercion in treatment decision-making
• Family systems, caregivers, and secondary trauma in veteran care
• Data practices, outcome measures, and evidence standards shaping veteran trauma treatment
• Innovative, integrative, and emerging care models (with critical evaluation)
• Lived experience, clinician-scholar, and practitioner perspectives
• Accountability frameworks, oversight mechanisms, and reform models for complex care systems

Abstract Deadline: August 30

Notification: September 30

Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: November 30

Publication Release:  December 30

• Abstracts: 250–300 words
• Abstract review decisions: within 2–3 weeks
• Full manuscripts must follow APA 7th Edition guidelines
• All human-subjects research must document IRB approval or exemption
• Use of the CSI IRB is permitted but not required

Submit all Abstracts to publishing@combathelp.com