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The Wickedness.Net project seeks to explore all issues relating to evil and human wickedness. In particular, it has two main aims;

to provide a comprehensive forum which is committed to promoting inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary explorations of, and perspectives on evil and wickedness.
to make available to scholars, researchers, and any one interested a set of research tools that bring together a wide variety of materials and resources which relate to this subject.

The project is deliberately and distinctively inter- and multi-disciplinary in nature; the hope is that this will help generate provocative insights into evil from across the spectrum of academic fields, professions, vocations, religious traditions and other relevant sources. By bringing together perspectives and views from the various disciplines, professions, and vocations the emphasis is on creativity and innovation in wrestling with the problems raised by evil and human wickedness.

The project will facilitate and support all forms of research and inquiry into evil and wickedness and foster a global dialogue capable of building a multi-layered picture of the problems and possible solutions encountered when dealing with evil and wickedness. There will be a forum to further understanding, facilitate exchanges, and encourage informed debate on issues and trends relating to evil; an e-mail discussion group has been launched as the first phase in implementing the forum. Details on how to join can be found here.

The project will also start to collect a comprehensive range of resources relating to the subject. In Phase Two of the development, a fully searchable database of resources will be brought on line, along with a vast store of research materials, links, and other useful tools to help in seeking to understand and wrestle with the whole area of evil. Further details can be found here.

An ISSN e-journal has been launched to support the work of the project and promote cutting edge research and dialogue. The e-journal targets a global audience of readers interested in inter-disciplinary research and reflection that is clear, accessible and jargon-free. Impartial in its orientation, it will solicit and welcome rigorous contributions expressing any perspective. The journal will have a mixture of themed and free standing editions. Contribution types will include autobiographical and personal reflections, scholarly articles and book reviews, poems and short stories, debates and dialogues, reports on contemporary developments. Further details can be found here.

The project is also investing in a rigorous programme of publications which support inter- and multi-disciplinary investigations of evil and human wickedness. In partnership with Rodopi publishers there are already a number of manuscripts which have been published and are in preparation. We also welcome and encourage proposals for publication. Further details can be found here.