Every other year or so, I try to attend the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM) annual meeting to keep up to date on what is going on in other related fields.  The meeting is very high powered–some of the best known names in the conflict resolution field in business schools, econ departments, public policy, and international relations attend–and the papers coming from the meeting provide a window on the latest research.  I went to the this June at the Kennedy School, heard a great talk from Max Bazerman, an interesting panel on gender, among others, and also had the pleasure to be on a panel with Roy Lewicki (Ohio State B-School), and two practitioners–Marty Latz and Hal Movius–discussing how hard it is to evaluate success in teaching negotiation.  I hope to be back with more on that subject in later blogs.  In the meantime, I pasting below the invitation to join the IACM e-journal network.  There is already one set of articles out from this year’s IACM conference.  I have not read this batch yet but–math alert–these articles usually remind me why  law students choose law–the ability to avoid math.  Now I made it all the way to linear algebra before my head flew off  and I switched from my engineering focus to a social science focus so I am not generally opposed to formulas and I still think we would all be better off writing in English.  I find the methodogy and research conclusions the most fruitful for our (law) purposes.  Nonetheless, I think that some of these articles are definitely the most cutting edge experiments out there.  

In cooperation with the International Association of Conflict Managment, the Negotiations Research Network (NEG) is pleased to announce the IACM 2010 23rd Annual Conference Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting eJournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the conference papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

The International Association for Conflict Management 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. This abstracting eJournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the conference. Abstracts of the papers will also be published in subject-specific journals within NEG and, where appropriate, in the journals of our sister networks.

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Sincerely,

Max Bazerman
Director
Negotiations Research Network