Global South is a phrase often heard in the academic parlance to categorise a group of nations which have been broadly classified in economic terms by the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based on certain defining characteristics (socio-economic and political factors). The countries or continents which come under this category are Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Australia and New Zealand). However, to classify economic grounds poses severe questions about factors contributing to the dissemination of this inequality. This unevenness as one suspects can be a major reason for armed conflicts often leading to tensions and permanent war zones. The Global South has now largely supplanted the broader once widely used term “third world” and is currently used in discussions on Developmental Studies, World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Migration Literature, Comparative Literature—to list a few areas. The last few decades especially post 1990s, the dynamics of relationships between the nations of both spheres (both North and South) have somehow undergone a massive change. The conflict has increased primarily because of changing positions of various nations in the Global South against the United States and the role the US government takes in managing the foreign reserves. Depending on the diplomatic stand of the nations, US freezes their funds and monitors payment systems making the US dollar weaponized and diplomatic positions delicate. Victor Davis Hansen in his book Between War and Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq (2004) speaks volumes about the provocative views about war in Afghanistan post the 9/11 incident. He makes blatant commentary on America’s progress against Islamic fundamentalism but is hampered by the self-hatred of elite academics at home.    Conflict as one understands, can be caused by a lot of involuntary factors and sometimes voluntary acts of governments. Organised large-scale conflict in developing countries could be caused by a lot of factors, of particular interest in human insecurity and poverty. All of them point out a developmental failure. Poverty and developmental goals are connected and most of all the cross-cultural civil war literature and per-capita are negatively related. The question that becomes relevant at this point is how literature as a broader discipline addresses issues related to conflict and post-conflict trauma which war literature mostly embodies. It revolves around the isolated voices of soldiers and how war deeply affects and unsettles their afterlives. War which is an overwhelming experience, is entangled with mass warfare, industrialisation, and the homogenous, empty time of global capitalism. Trauma has been defined by psychoanalysts in a certain way. However, there are unique ways how literary texts unravel and address them—whether it is internal conflict caused by the stirrings of the external conflict or rehabilitating the post-conflict victims. Conflict can also be caused by social/communal guilt for the war and its ravages. Hansen in his work mentioned earlier expresses exactly this concern and speaks how provocative view on war on terror post 9/11 attack and the consequences that were unleashed in the Middle-East and several other places thereof. In other words, he makes blatant comments about how America makes/ is making progress against Islamic Fundamentalists. What began perhaps as post-cold-war conflict across Europe and North America, modern-day geopolitics have silently involved countries randomly. Borders have become transitory in nature post globalisation and hence conflicts, sometimes armed and sometimes in air-conditioned diplomatic tables/ rooms get heated up by the conflict of interest experienced by the involved parties. Such conflicts are not always random or recent, sometimes they are continuation of generations of conflicts borne out of wars. It leaves us with little room of doubt that categorizing zones based on economic stability might often lead to broader tensions. Trauma in the larger global context can be caused by the fear or the foreboding of a threat of militarism or nuclear warfare that might suddenly break out causing a global catastrophe. It may also involve trauma as a consequence to conflicts caused by pandemic, political consequences of global capitalism and dislocations owing to environmental, economic or political reasons.   The current volume aims to foreground literary and other scholarly responses from individuals particularly belonging from the Global South and will try to map the way how conflict has shaped human lives across borders and continents particularly in a post-cold-war scenario. It is also to be noted that conflict which primarily brings forth armed aggression in mind, is however not limited to that. It is also a trigger from climatic conditions which is a real threat now. A consideration of texts and contexts immersed in the process of armed conflicts, inter-border, inter-religious, inter-generational conflict caused by environmental issues are invited, not limiting to the topics mentioned below. v Environment and Conflict v Borders and Armed conflict v Inter-Religious Conflict v Confronting and Articulating Atrocity in post-conflict contexts v Women Writers and post-conflict trauma v Dystopic fiction and articulating post-conflict discontent v Children and young adults’ literature and post-conflict reconciliation v Transitional Injustice and Conflict   Submission Guidelines Papers should be original and unpublished, theoretically informed and should try to engage and address the distinctive focus of the broad subject (s) mentioned above. Detailed abstracts within 500 words are invited for full-length essays (6500-7500) for an edited volume which will be published by ROUTLEDGE (contract signed). Queries should be sent to the email ID— icbwarlitcon@gmail.com   Submissions should include the following; else it will not be considered for publication. File should be named with author’s name and a word doc. file (not a pdf)A tentative title with 5 keywords along with the abstract.A short bibliography (200 words)ORCiD ID number (please create one if you do not have).  Important Dates Abstract Submission- 15th September, 2025   Intimation for Selection of Abstracts—15th October 2025   Final Paper Submission— 15th November, 2025