You are invited to submit a paper, symposium or workshop. Submissions should present new material, distinct from published works, works that will be published before the conference, or from submissions to any other conference.
Presentations can be submitted as either full length papers or extended abstracts. Other formats include symposia, debates, roundtables, and workshops.
For more details on submission format and procedures, please see the full call for papers available on-line at www.iacm-conflict.org
The submission portal will be open by January 15, 2009. You can access the submission portal through the IACM website at www.iacm-conflict.org
PROGRAM CONTENT AREAS
Research, Theory, and Practice in:
Negotiation: Conflict settlements; concession bargaining; integrative agreements; negotiation teams; relationships; negotiator emotions; 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 social 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 Inter-group Conflict: Ethnic and regional conflicts; development of group biases; conflict escalation; international and inter-group conflict prevention and resolution; deterrence and third parties.
Organizational Conflict: The causes, effects, and measurement of conflict in organizational settings; interpersonal, intra- and inter-group conflict; power; diversity; styles of handling conflicts; moderators and effects of conflict; research methodologies for studying organizational conflict.
IACM 2009 PROGRAM CHAIR
Wendi L. Adair, University of Waterloo, Department of Psychology, wladair@uwaterloo.ca
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Tetsushi Okumura, Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Economics, tetsu2009iacmkyoto@hotmail.co.jp
CONFERENCE HOTEL
Hyatt Regency Kyoto
http://kyoto.regency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp
INFORMATION/MEMBERSHIP
For membership information and updates regarding the association and the conference, please see the IACM website: http://www.iacm-conflict.org/
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Wendi L. Adair
Department of Psychology
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3G1 Canada
(tel) 519-888-4567. ext. 38143
(fax) 519-746-8631
wladair@uwaterloo.ca
www.wendiadair.com