Biennial Bullying doctoral seminar 2012 (IAWBH) (12 Jun 2012)

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:00:00 GMT

The IAWBH organizes a doctoral seminar for PhD students. More information at: http://bullying2012.com/

Meeting of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) IAWBH (12 Jun 2012)

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:00:00 GMT

The day before the IAWBH conference in Copenhagen a number of Special Interest Groups of IAWBH is planning a meeting:

‘Organizational Practitioners’,
‘Therapeutic Practitioners’,
‘Dynamics of formal knowledge’, power and professions’,
‘Bystanders’ and ‘Organizational Influences’,
‘Trade Unions’,
‘Legal Issues’, and
‘Risk Management’

More information about their programme.

Biennial Bullying Conference 2012 (IAWBH) (13 Jun 2012)

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Biennial Bullying Conference organized by the International Association of Workplace Bullying & Harassment (IAWBH). You may download the flyer of the conference or find more information and a call for abstracts at: http://bullying2012.com/

25th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) (11 Jul 2012)

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:00:00 GMT

25^th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management

July 11-14, 2012 Stellenbosch, South Africa

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012, 5:00 p.m. Central European Time

The International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) was founded to encourage scholars and practitioners to develop and disseminate theory, research, and experience that are useful for understanding and improving conflict management in organizational, societal, family, and international settings. We invite papers as well as proposals for symposia and workshops for the 2012 meeting of IACM to be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Program Chair

Lindred Greer, University of Amsterdam, l.l.greer@uva.nl

Faculty Chair, Local Arrangements Committee

Barney Jordaan, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Barney.Jordaan@usb.ac.za

TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS

You are invited to submit a paper, symposium or workshop. Submissions should present new material, distinct from published works (including those that will appear in-print before the conference) and presentations at other conferences. Submissions should be consistent with one or more of the general content areas listed below. We encourage a broad range of topic areas, and priority is given to those with clear relevance to conflict and conflict management research. We encourage innovative submissions that highlight dialogues between theory and practice, different cultures, different content areas, and different disciplines.

Individual Presentations: Presentations can be submitted as either full length papers or extended abstracts.

Papers: Papers are limited to 30 TOTAL PAGES (including title page, abstract, references, tables, and figures) and should be formatted according to guidelines set forth in the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Papers may be empirical or theoretical. Papers that do not fit logically with others or would benefit from more time or a face-to-face discussion will be scheduled in showcase poster sessions.

Extended Abstracts: Extended abstracts must include at least 1000 WORDS and contain sufficient information for review. Every effort will be made to include favorably-reviewed abstracts into the conference program, but priority will be given to full papers. Extended abstracts will not be considered for awards.

Multi-Presenter Submissions:

Symposia/Debates/Roundtables: Symposia are focused sessions in which participants present their views on a common issue. Debates typically include a moderator and two teams of one or two speakers each. Roundtable discussions typically involve a moderator/facilitator and a panel consisting of participants from a variety of different traditions or perspectives on an issue. Symposia, Debates, and Roundtable submissions should include a THREE PAGE MAXIMUM statement describing the focal issue and the qualifications of each participant. It should also include ONE PAGE for each participant describing their expected contributions and a statement declaring their intention to register for and attend the conference.

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 THREE PAGE MAXIMUM workshop proposal should explain its relevance to IACM, articulate the session's goals, 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. We welcome creative formats for either short workshops (1.5 hours) during the conference or longer workshops before or after the conference.

Novel Session Formats: We greatly encourage proposals for innovative or experimental conference sessions that do not fit any of the categories described above.

PROGRAM CONTENT AREAS

Conflict Frames and Dimensions
Conflict Research Methods
Cultural Dimensions of Conflict
Emotions and Conflict
Environmental and Public Resource Conflict
Ethnic, Religious and Regional Conflicts
Decision Processes in Conflict
Diversity and Identity in Conflict
Games and Social Dilemmas
Individuals in Conflict (i.e., individual differences and cognitions)
Intergovernmental Conflict
Intra- and Inter-Group Conflict
Law and Social Conflict
Mediation
Negotiation Processes
Organizational and Workplace Conflict
Power and Status in Conflict
Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding
Relational and Family Conflict
Social and Organizational Justice
Third Party Intervention and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Technology or Communication Media for Managing Conflicts
Terrorism
Trust and Conflict
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication in Conflict

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN PROGRAM

Archival Research
Case Study
Field Study
Laboratory Study
Meta-Analysis
Multi-Method /Hybrid Research
Novel Methods of Conflict Intervention
Other:_____
Qualitative Research
Not Applicable: Theoretical Paper

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

All submitters will be asked to verify and indicate in the online submission: (1) the person(s) responsible for presenting the submission; (2) a promise that each presenter will register and attend the conference should their submission be accepted; (3) their willingness to present at the time and date scheduled by the Program Chair; (4) their willingness to present in the format (paper presentation or poster session) specified by the Program Chair; (5) up to three keywords from the above program content list, and new this year: 1 or more methodological keywords from the methodological approaches list, that will be used to help assign reviewers; and (6) if the first author is a graduate student.

All submitters will be asked to review papers for the conference program. At the time of submission, submitters who will not be available to review papers will have an opportunity to nominate a co-author.

After notification from the Program Chair, the submitter is responsible for notifying co-authors and other session participants about the acceptance/rejection decision and information concerning session location, timing and format.

Submit papers: Submissions will not be accepted after February 1, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Central European (Netherlands) Time. The online submission portal will open by mid-January (please check the IACM website for updates). Papers should be submitted through the IACM website: www.iacm-conflict.org.

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS

There will be multiple scholarships available to assist students with travel or registration costs. The following criteria will be used in allocating these scholarships:

(a) graduate student as solo or first author on an accepted paper or poster

(b) preference will be given to first-time attendees and/or graduate students who have not previously received a scholarship

Authors who are interested in being considered for any of these student scholarships should submit their papers to the conference through the normal submissions procedure by February 1, 2012. In addition, you should indicate your interest in being considered for one (and only one) of the scholarships when prompted on the submissions website. You will then receive detailed application instructions.

All recipients will be honored with a certificate at the awards ceremony.

AWARDS AND PROCEEDINGS

Awards will be given for papers that make outstanding empirical, theoretical, and practical contributions to the field -- as well as the best paper with a graduate student as sole or first author.

Abstracts of papers, symposia, roundtables and debates presented at the conference will be included in the Conference Program.

More information:

http://www.bus.umich.edu/Conferences/IACM-2012

IAWBH Events

Biennial Bullying doctoral seminar 2012 (IAWBH) (12 Jun 2012)

Meeting of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) IAWBH (12 Jun 2012)

Biennial Bullying Conference 2012 (IAWBH) (13 Jun 2012)

25th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) (11 Jul 2012)

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES