CfP: Towards a Dialogue Between Conflict Theories and Practices Across Paradigms and Cultures
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CfP: Towards a Dialogue Between Conflict Theories and
Practices Across Paradigms and Cultures
ESSEC
IRENE
INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ON NEGOTIATION IN EUROPE
Paris, November 24
Email: <[email protected]>
Web: www.irene-paris.com
Dear Sir, dear Madam,
We have the pleasure to inform you that our Institute, IRENE, has been
chosen to organize the 14th annual conference of the International
Association for Conflict Management, In June 2001, in France:
" Towards a Dialogue Between Conflict Theories and Practices Across
Paradigms and Cultures "
The conference will be held from June 24 to June 27, 2001, on the
ESSEC Business School Campus, in Cergy, near Paris.
You will find enclosed some documentation about IRENE, the IACM
conference, as well as its call for submissions. We encourage you to
propose papers or debates connected to different tracks and areas
selected by the organization committee.
If you have any question regarding the conference organization or the
submission procedure, please feel free to contact us at the above
mentioned email address.
Sincerely yours,
Alain Lempereur
Director
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
14th* Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict
Management
June 24-June 27, 2001 Cergy (Paris), France
Submission Deadline: February 16, 2001
The International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) was
founded to encourage scholars and practitioners to develop and
disseminate theory, research, and experience that is useful for
understanding and improving conflict management in family,
organizational, societal, and international settings. We invite papers
as well as proposals for symposia, workshops, roundtables, and other
session forms for the 2001 meeting of IACM to be held in Cergy (Paris)
France at the ESSEC Business School. The conference is being
facilitated by the ESSEC Research Center and the Institute for
Research and Education on Negotiation in Europe (IRENE).
Types of Submissions
You are invited to submit a paper, symposium, debate, roundtable
discussion, workshop or exhibit. Innovative sessions and symposia are
also encouraged. Submissions should be consistent with one or more of
the general content areas and/or special millennium tracks listed at
the end of this call for submissions. We are also interested in
sessions (or papers) that highlight dialogues between theory and
practice, between different conflict paradigms (game theory,
derision-analysis, political science, psychology, etc.), and between
different cultures.
Papers: Format papers according to guidelines set forth in the latest
edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association. The maximum length is 30 pages, including title page,
abstract (on a separate page), references, tables and figures. Shorter
papers are also acceptable. Papers that do not fit neatly with others,
or that would benefit from more time and face-to-face discussion, will
be scheduled in showcase poster sessions. Papers should not have been
presented (or accepted for future presentation) at another meeting.
Extended Abstracts: An extended abstract (at least 1000 words; 5-7
pages) that describes formative work may be submitted in lieu of a
full paper. It is essential that abstracts provide sufficient
information for review. Every effort will be made to schedule
abstract-submissions that are favorably reviewed into the conference
program, but note that priority will be given to completed papers.
Symposia/Debates/Roundtables: Symposia are focused sessions in which
participants present their views on a common issue. Debates ordinarily
include a moderator and two teams of one or two speakers each.
Roundtable discussions typically involve a moderator/facilitator and a
panel of participants representing different traditions or
perspectives on an issue. Roundtable discussions that include a
mixture of theoreticians and practitioners are
Workshops: Workshops are highly interactive, specialized sessions that
focus on sharing new techniques or approaches related to teaching,
research, and/or practice. There is limited space on the program for
workshops. A workshop proposal should explain its relevance to IACM's
agenda, articulate the session's goals and objectives, give details on
the format to be used, indicate constraints on time and the number of
participants, and describe the relevant qualifications of those who
intend to conduct the workshop.
Novel Session Formats: Proposals for Innovative or experimental
conference sessions that do not fit any of the categories described
above are also encouraged. This may include, for example, a proposed
conversation hour, wherein one or two people with expertise in an area
of interest to IACM give a short presentation, and then solicit
question from the audience. You may wish to contact the Program Chair
to discuss this possibility before creating and sending in a formal
submission.
Submission Procedures
Submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee and other
volunteer reviewers. The submitter will be notified of the acceptance
or rejection of the submission and information on scheduling, and is
responsible for notifying co-authors or other session participants.
Submit Electronically, PLEASE!
Electronic submissions are preferable in lieu of mailed copies of the
paper if all of the following conditions are met:
� The complete manuscript or proposal is contained in a single word
processing file (i.e., all tables, figures, and graphics are included
within one word processing document).
� The document begins with the title of the submission, names and
affiliations of all contributors/participants, and an abstract of not
more than 200 words.
� The document is formatted as a Microsoft Word file, and transmitted
as an attachment to an email message (manuscripts sent as email
message text are not acceptable).
Please submit the paper/proposal electronically by attaching it to an
email message addressed to <[email protected]> by February 16, 2001.
Awards and Proceedings
Outstanding contributions to the program will be acknowledged with
presentation of awards and plaques in the following four categories:
Outstanding Empirical Paper, Outstanding Theoretical Paper,
Outstanding Applications Paper, and Outstanding Graduate Student Paper
(defined as a paper on which a current graduate student is first
author). Please indicate if a student is the first author on your
submission.
Abstracts of papers, symposia, roundtables and debates presented at
the conference will be included in the Conference Abstracts
Proceedings.
Program Content Areas
Research, Theory, and Practice in:
Negotiation:
Conflict settlements; topics include concession bargaining;
integrative agreements; negotiation teams; relationships; power and
influence.
Decision Processes:
Decision making of negotiators, mediators, and arbitrators; biases and
heuristics; negotiator rationality; learning; implementation of
decisions.
Communication:
Verbal and nonverbal behavior in conflict; interaction analysis of
communication behavior in negotiation; effects of communication
styles; technology as a component of conflict.
Conflict in the Public Sector:
Role of conflict in public policy processes; conflict relating to
ethics and values; law and serial conflict; public sector
labor-management relations.
Culture and Conflict:
Cultural dimensions of conflict including within-culture dimensions as
well as cross-cultural comparisons.
Social Justice:
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) systems; procedural and
distributive justice; legal issues and dispute resolution; impact of
dispute resolution procedures on society.
Third Party Intervention:
Techniques, strategies, tactics, and outcomes of mediation; forms of
mediation and arbitration; influence of third party behavior on
disputants; organizational grievance procedures.
Environmental and Public Resource Conflict:
Natural resource and environmental conflict: role of third parties in
environmental conflicts; economic and political dimensions of resource
disputes.
International and Intergroup Conflict:
Ethnic and regional conflicts: development of group biases; conflict
escalation: international and intergroup conflict prevention and
resolution; deterrence and third parties.
Organizational Conflict:
The causes, efforts, and measurement of conflict in organizational
settings; interpersonal, intra- and inter- group conflict: power:
diversity; and conflict; styles of handling conflicts: moderators and
effects of conflict; research methodologies for studying
organizational conflict.
Special Millenium Tracks
The Management of Violence: The conditions under which conflict leads
to violence; conflict escalation and violence: the management of
violence in different contexts.
Information Technology Applied to Conflict and Negotiation: The
contribution of group decision support systems, derision conferencing
tools, and other computer-assisted techniques to support negotiations;
the impact of technology on the management of complex and conflictual
decision processes.
Interorganizational Disputes: The bases for effective cooperation
between organizations; how inter- organizational disputes are
identified and effectively resolved; comparisons of
interorganizational disputes with disputes at other levels of
analysis.
Conference Site and Facilities
The conference will take place on the ESSEC Campus in Cergy, close to
Paris (30 minutes by RER metro) and to Roissy Charles de Gaulle
Airport. ESSEC facilities include a 500-seat auditorium, amphitheaters
with updated audiovisual equipment, computer rooms, etc. Participants
will be able to present with Power Point on ESSEC computers if
desired. While at the conference, participants will also have access
to the ESSEC library. For more information about ESSEC, see
http://www.essec.fr.
See also http://www.irene-paris.com.
Conference Accommodations
Located within walking distance from ESSEC, the NOVOTEL hotel offers
rooms with air conditioning, television, mini-bar, hairdryers, and
telephone. IACM guests will also have access to a private lounge with
refreshments, to the outdoor swimming pool, and to the ESSEC outdoor
tennis facilities.
Conference Special Events
Join us for a number of special events before and during the
conference. On Sunday afternoon, we will embark on a cruise on the
Seine to view the monuments in Paris. On Monday evening, we will go on
an impressionist tour at the Auvers castle to view a multimedia
exhibition �A trip back to the time of the impressionists�, which will
take us back to the impressionist society of the late XIX century.
IACM Information / Membership
For an application for membership contact:
Dr. William P. Bottom, Executive Director
Washington University, Campus Box 1133
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
Tel. 314.935.6351 / Fax 314.935.6359
Email.: [email protected]
IACM Website
For updates regarding the association and the conference, please see
the IACM website:
http://www.iacm-conflict.org/
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