AOM PDW: Organizing for Peace-Building Theory, Methods, and Community
As geopolitical tensions escalate globally, understanding how organizations and organizing processes can contribute to peace has become both urgent and essential. Yet organization and management scholarship has only begun to address these challenges systematically.
Building on the momentum of our 2025 AOM PDW on organizing for peace, and aligned with the forthcoming Research in the Sociology of Organizations volume, Organizing for Peace: Theory, Practice, and Transformation (2028), we warmly invite you to join our workshop at this year's AOM Annual Meeting. The session aims to advance both theoretical development and community building in this emerging field of inquiry.
The workshop will open with a panel featuring Renate Meyer, Shirli Kopelman, Jason Miklian, and Harry Van Buren III.
It will then continue with roundtable discussions exploring conceptual linkages and generative research questions at the intersection of organizing for peace and different organization and management theories:
Roundtable 1: Organizing for Peace and Paradox Theory
Facilitated by Josh Keller and Linda Putnam
Roundtable 2: Organizing for Peace and Institutional Theory
Facilitated by Renate Meyer and Linda Jakob Sadeh
Roundtable 3: Organizing for Peace and Nonmarket Strategy
Facilitated by Emily Block and Alexander Rustler
Roundtable 4: Organizing for Peace and Emotions
Facilitated by Neal Ashkenazy and Madeleine Rauch
Roundtable 5: Organizing for Peace and Conflict Management
Facilitated by Shirli Kopelman and Poonam Arora
Date: Sunday, August 2
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth B, Second Floor
Session details:
https://events.aom.org/events/aom-2026/session/nzkfE5qhW3F1efGsQNTLu
Questions: Linda.jakob@gmail.com; ambreen@umich.edu