19098: Conflict Management: A Societal Lens

Saturday, July 26, 2025

10:30 - 13:30 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C2-m2

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: International,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/7bpXGX

Organizer(s)

WH

Witold Jerzy Henisz

University of Pennsylvania, United States
AJ

Anne Jamison

Copenhagen Business School, United States
BG

Brian Ganson

Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Panelist(s)

SC

Sarah Cechvala

University of Oslo
TG

Tarek Ghani

Washington University in St. Louis, United States
IM

Ishva Minefee

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
DT

Doron Tadmor

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant(s)

KH

Kristian Hoelscher

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AK

Ans Kolk

-, Netherlands
AW

Achim Wennmann

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The Geneva Academy counts 110 armed conflicts in the world today, with the past three years each recording more deaths from violent conflict than any other years since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. This sombre reality of a world at war—atrocious in its own right and also undermining sustainable development goals —argues for greater attentiveness in management scholarship to the nexus of business, conflict, and human security. The proposed PDW on Conflict Management: A Societal Lens convenes established and emerging scholars to discuss leading edge qualitative and quantitative research with socio-political conflict as a dependent variable, focusing in particular on research enabled by newly available disaggregated data sources as well as drawing upon novel data and approaches to analysis thereof. Presentations by junior scholars will elicit reactions and discussion from senior panelists before a workshop in which attendees can share, develop, and receive feedback on research ideas.