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The Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR) has played a pivotal role since its inception in 1957 in publishing cutting-edge scholarship on conflict and its resolution. The JCR was founded by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, led by Kenneth Boulding at the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Conflict Resolution. The JCR has featured articles from political science, economics, psychology, and related social science fields. The editorial in the first issue concluded with: “By opening up a new outlet for publication, we hope to attract research into this channel. If, as a result, there is an increase in knowledge in this area, however humble, we shall consider our efforts amply justified” (Editors 1957, 2). Indeed, our collective efforts through sixty years have proven justified. The JCR represents one of the premier interdisciplinary journals with readership in multiple disciplines. In political science, it embraced game theory from the outset, well before game theory became a dominant theoretic paradigm in political science, economics, and related social sciences. Given its interdisciplinary roots, the JCR was one of the first political science journals to feature theoretical tools from economics. Moreover, the JCR has had a long tradition of publishing articles using experiments, sophisticated econometrics, and formal theory. As the JCR approached its sixty-year milestone, the publication of an anniversary issue seemed appropriate. The notion to move forward with this issue raised a