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Call for Papers - 2015 AUS Business and Peace Conference on Infrastructure and Construction Management in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones

Nature of the Conference

Research from different academic fields has explored the connections between business practices and peace for the last 15 years. The business and peace literature has already inspired several organizations to embrace the concept and produce policy documents that offer recommendations on what businesses could, and in some instances should, do to promote peace (UN Global Compact, US Institute for Peace, Institute for Economics and Peace, Business for Peace Foundation). The goal of the 2015 American University of Sharjah (AUS) Business and Peace Conference is to encourage research that will a) provide better guidance to business leaders and policy makers on how best to encourage peace in conflict and post-conflict zones, and b) deepen insight into how two important issues – infrastructure and construction management – can in particular enhance or hinder peace.

The destruction of infrastructure almost always accompanies violent conflict. After the most violent aspects of the conflict have concluded, businesses are often called upon to engage in massive infrastructure and construction projects. The types of infrastructure include, but are certainly not limited to: oil/gas, IT and communications, transportation, marine, and mining.

Management and construction of such projects in conflict and post-conflict locations can pose massive economic, environmental, social, and reputational costs on companies and the countries they operate in. The businesses engaged in this infrastructure construction can provide, however, substantial benefits for the conflict and post-conflict communities which they operate in and may be able to reap substantial benefits themselves by operating in ways particular to conflict and post-conflict settings.

Submission and Publication

A committee comprised of AUS faculty, practitioners with experience in conflict and post-conflict zones, and faculty from other universities will select papers. Authors whose papers are selected will be invited to present at the conference with discussants being drawn from AUS faculty members. Selected papers will be published in a June 2016 Special Issue of the Business, Peace and Sustainable Development journal from Greenleaf Publishing.

Full Paper submission: 30 June 2015

Conference: November 2015

Publication: 30 June 2016

For more information, please contact John E. Katsos, Assistant Professor of Business Ethics and Law at the AUS School of Business Administration (jkatsos@aus.edu).

To submit a paper please use the BPSD online submission portal.

About the Journal

Business, Peace and Sustainable Development (BPSD) is a peer-reviewed online journal published by Greenleaf Publishing. BPSD aims at understanding the relationship between business, peace and development. Corporate Peace is an umbrella concept that contains business, social and strategic dimensions. It is the capacity of an organization to consider peace and the reduction of violence as a component in its business strategy, and the utilisation of business resources to raise awareness and enhance peace. While research has been published on business and peace and peace through commerce, BPSD is the first journal dedicated to mutual contribution of business and peace.

For more details about Business, Peace and Sustainable Development (BPSD) please visit www.greenleaf-journals.com.

Editor: Professor Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia

Publisher: Anna Comerford, Greenleaf Publishing, UK

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