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President's Message
Julia Bear, Stony Brook University
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Greetings IACM Community,
I am very much looking forward to seeing so many of you at our annual conference in Burlington, VT this coming July! Emma Zhao, our Program Chair extraordinaire, is putting together an interesting and engaging program, made possible by everyone’s fantastic submissions. Brandon Charpied, our Executive Director, is coordinating the conference logistics, accommodations, and local arrangements, including a boat tour of idyllic Lake Champlain. This year, we will pilot on-campus accommodations at the University of Vermont, coupled with several off-campus hotels. If you have not yet registered for the conference and/or booked your accommodations, please do so ASAP to guarantee your preferred plans.
In addition to an intellectually stimulating program, we will celebrate the important contributions of our award winners (scroll down for more information), reflect on the life and contributions of Dean Pruitt, have an opportunity to watch a documentary film together highlighting successful negotiation and shared governance, and of course, spend time together as a community, catching up with old friends and colleagues while (hopefully!) also making new ones.
In this issue of Signal, please enjoy reading about our award winners who have made such important contributions to the IACM community and to our field (and whom we can looking forward to toasting in Vermont). Please also be sure to read the fascinating 2014 NCMR profile of Stephen Goldberg, our esteemed IACM member and past Rubin Award Winner, who contributed so much professionally and personally to the study and teaching of negotiation and conflict management. He passed away recently, and we remember and honor him as a colleague and dear friend to so many in the IACM community (see below, as well).
Congratulations again to our incoming President-Elect, Gerben Van Kleef, and our newly elected board members – Jiyin Cao and Emma Levine! They will come on board officially at the end of the conference in July. I am also delighted to announce that Remigiusz Smolinski will also officially take on the role of Editor-in-Chief of NCMR at the end of the conference.
Thank you to Nazli Bhatia and Einav Hart for their service as they rotate off the board after the conference. Nazli and Einav contributed their time to IACM incredibly generously. Thank you also to Laurie Weingart, who served for two years as our Advisory Council Chair and always provided thoughtful advice and counsel to the board. And thank you to Jimena Marin-Ramirez for her dedicated service as Editor-in-Chief of NCMR—a heavy lift indeed—and for overseeing a smooth transition as Remi takes on the reins this summer.
I also want to express our gratitude to our generous sponsors: Columbia University Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing Service, and iDecisionGames, for their support. Additionally, we want to thank the sponsors of our student fellowships and activities: Dispute Resolution Research Center (DRRC) at the Kellogg School of Management Negotiation (facilitated by Cynthia Wang) and Team Resources (NTR; the Early Career Scholars Program – facilitated by Jeanne Brett and Holly Schroth), and the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. Thanks also to Dan and Marjorie Druckman for sponsoring the Druckman Fellowship Program.
I would also like to express my gratitude to Emma Zhao for serving as Program Chair with such competence and thoughtfulness, and to Brandon Charpied, our Executive Director, for his tireless work and attention to detail to make our conference possible, as well as the continuing operations of IACM. Thank you also to Jen Dannals and Nicholas Hays, our current board members, Tony Kong and Sarah Jensen, the SiGNAL Co-Editors, McKenzie Rees, our Secretary, and Daisung Jang, our Treasurer, for their ongoing dedication and service. An additional thanks to Deborah Cai, Michael Gross, and Laura Rees for organizing the Doctoral Student Workshop yet again. If you are a doctoral student and planning to attend IACM, please do make time for the Doctoral Student Workshop prior to the conference as you plan your travel.
We also continue to host the IACM virtual seminar series (https://iafcm.org/vss), and we express our gratitude to Jessica Li for her ongoing efforts in facilitating these seminars, to Selin Kesebir for serving as a moderator, and to the Conflict Management Division of AOM for their continued support and collaboration on these seminars.
Finally, I believe that our research and our mission are now more important than ever. I look forward to learning more about our members’ new discoveries and to insightful and constructive discussions about both theory and practice in Vermont.
Best regards,
Julia Bear
IACM President
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Join Us at IACM 2025 in Beautiful Burlington!
The International Association for Conflict Management is thrilled to invite you to our 38th Annual Conference, hosted at the University of Vermont! From July 13-16, experience thought-provoking sessions, leading research, and IACM's welcoming culture in the stunning backdrop of Burlington—where the Green Mountains meet the shores of Lake Champlain. IACM 2025 is certain to offer an unforgettable opportunity to connect, learn, and grow in the field of conflict management and negotiation.
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Welcome to the Board!
Meet our newly elected President-Elect and At-Large Directors
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Gerben Van Kleef - President-Elect
Gerben A. van Kleef is a professor of social psychology at the University of Amsterdam. His main research programs revolve around emotion, norm violation, power/hierarchy, conflict, and cooperation. In studying these topics, he combines social‐psychological approaches with insights from various other disciplines, including organizational behavior, evolutionary science, biology, behavioral economics, and law. Van Kleef has spent most of his career at the University of Amsterdam, first at the department of Work and Organizational Psychology and later at the department of Social Psychology. Next to that he held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and Stanford University. IACM has been a red thread through his career ever since he joined in 2001: He has frequented the association’s meetings, served on the board, and played with his band at the conferences in Seville and Leiden. As President-Elect, Van Kleef looks forward to maintaining and expanding IACM’s unique function in the field as a social-intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of conflict management.
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Emma Levine - Director At-Large
Emma Levine is a Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Emma earned her PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She studies the psychology of altruism, trust, and ethical dilemmas, with the goal of understanding how individuals make sense of value conflicts, and how this influences decision-making and social perception. Emma has been a member of IACM since her first year of graduate school, and considers IACM her academic home. She is honored to have received the IACM Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2017 and the IACM Early Career Award in 2020. As a member of the board, she is excited to continue to build the warm and welcoming community that makes IACM so special.
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Jiyin Cao - Director At-Large
Jiyin Cao is an Associate Professor of Management and the Area Head of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. She served as the Program Chair for the IACM Annual Meeting in 2022 and has been an active member of IACM since her time as a doctoral student at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where she earned her PhD in Management and Organizations. Jiyin's research lies at the intersection of social hierarchy, social networks, culture, and technology. She is excited to continue contributing to the vibrant and collaborative IACM community.
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Celebrating Excellence: 2025 IACM Award Winners
To Be Recognized at the Annual Conference Awards Ceremony
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Each year, the International Association for Conflict Management honors outstanding contributions that shape the future of conflict and negotiation scholarship, practice, and teaching. We are thrilled to recognize the 2025 award recipients whose work exemplifies the highest standards of innovation, impact, and integrity in our field. Please join us in celebrating these remarkable individuals and their achievements as we continue to advance the global conversation around conflict management. Descriptions of awards and lists of prior award winners can be found at https://iafcm.org/awards/.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Mara Olekalns (Melbourne Business School)
The Lifetime Achievement Award is an honor that recognizes the incredible breadth, depth, and impact of your contributions to the field. Mara's work has been praised not only for its scholarly rigor and innovation across theory, methodology, and application, but also for the leadership and service Mara has provided to the broader community.
Outstanding Mentor Award: Adam Galinsky (Columbia University). Inspired by the career and community-building activities of Donald E. Conlon, the IACM Outstanding Mentor Award recognizes individuals who have advanced the field of conflict management by serving as a mentor to and role model for colleagues including students, junior and senior faculty, and others in the IACM community. Mentorship includes excellence in advising students, supporting professional development, helping others develop a scholarly network, being an impactful scholar, and building community in IACM and related professional organizations.
Outstanding Dissertation Award: Kian Siong (KS) Tey (The University of Hong Kong) for his dissertation titled, "Navigating Moral Rhetoric in Organizations: Implications for Leaders, Employees, and Mediators." The Outstanding Dissertation Award honors the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation that significantly advances the study of conflict management and negotiation. The nominated dissertation should epitomize the goals and purposes of the association.
Early Career Award Winner: Joshua Jackson (Chicago Booth)
The Early Career Award honors scholars in the first five years of their post-doctoral career who have shown exceptional promise for making significant contributions to the study of conflict management and negotiation. Recipients' early careers epitomize the goals and purposes of the association.
Best Conference Paper Winners: Polly Kang (INSEAD) and David Daniels (National University of Singapore) for their paper titled, "More Need, Less Help: Exogenous Disasters Create A Supply-Demand Paradox In Organizational Prosocial Behavior." This paper seeks to challenge a widely held assumption in research on prosocial behavior that increased need leads to increased helping, theorizing that exogenous traumatic shocks create a “supply-demand paradox” with prosocial behavior. One reviewer stated, "This is probably one of the more empirically interesting and rigorous papers on prosocial behavior that I've read in recent years." We look forward to having this paper on the forthcoming IACM 2025 conference program!
Best Conference Paper - Student as First Author Winners: Christine Nguyen (Columbia University) and Michael Yeomans (Imperial College London) for their paper titled "Gender Differences in Conversational Receptiveness." Reviewers noted that this paper stood out by examining gender differences in conflict communication using large-scale data and natural language processing, robustly linking linguistic cues to differences in conversational receptiveness between genders, yielding practical insights for conflict resolution. We look forward to this session on our IACM 2025 program!
NCMR Article of the Year Winners Laura Rees (Oregon State University), Ming-Hong Tsai (Singapore Management University), Shirli Kopelman (University of Michigan), & Hsiu-Hua Hu (Ming Chuan University) for their article "Can Confidence Influence Persuasiveness in Disagreements by Conveying Competence versus Dominance? The Moderating Role of Competitiveness," published in Volume 17, Issue 2 of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.
The findings challenge common assumptions and provide clear implications for those engaged in negotiation, leadership, and decision-making. In particular, the research highlights how low-competition environments allow confidence to be seen as a sign of expertise, while in high-competition contexts, it may instead be perceived as an assertion of dominance—potentially limiting its persuasive impact.
The IACM Outstanding Publication Awards honor the author(s) of a published article or book chapter that significantly advances the study of conflict management and negotiation with an Outstanding Publication Award given to one empirical work and one theoretical work.
Theoretical Winners: Dan Druckman (George Mason University, Macquarie University, and University of Queensland) & Steve Wood (Macquarie University) for their work titled, "Scaling Up, Down, and Across."
Empirical Winners: Sreedhari Desai (University of North Carolina) & Brian Gunia (Johns Hopkins University) for their work titled, "The interplay of gender and perceived sexual orientation at the bargaining table: A social dominance and intersectionalist perspective."
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Marjorie & Daniel Druckman Research Fellowship
We are delighted to announce that Matt Sjoberg (Durham University) is the recipient of the 2025 Marjorie & Daniel Druckman Research Fellowship Award.
This Druckman Research Fellowship is a highly competitive award that provides an opportunity for yearly support of new research by doctoral students (matriculation in a doctoral program) and post-docs (up to two years following the doctorate and prior to a faculty position).This award comes with up to $5,000 in funding to support the research conducted, with the expectation of this work being presented at IACM 2026, and the end product prepared for publication in Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.
We thank all of those who submitted for this award and, once again, congratulate Matt Sjoberg!
| | In Memoriam: Remembering Stephen Goldberg | | |
We ask that you take a moment with us to remember Stephen Goldberg, dear friend of IACM and the recipient of the 2014 Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award. Mara Olekalns, Donna Shestowsky, Sylvia P. Skratek, and Ann-Sophie De Pauw celebrated Stephen's incredible impact and contributions in their 2019 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research article titled, "The Double Helix of Theory and Practice: Celebrating Stephen J. Goldberg as a Scholar, Practitioner, and Mentor." This tribute highlights "the role that he has played as a mentor inspiring young scholars, as a champion for grievance mediation, a designer of dispute resolution systems including the enduring power–rights–interests framework, and as a scholar," and closes with reflections from Stephen.
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Meet Our Incoming NCMR Editor-in-Chief
Remigiusz Smolinski
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Join us as we welcome Remi Smolinski as our incoming Editor-in-Chief of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. Remi will succeed our amazing editor of the past three years, Jimena Ramirez Marin, upon the conclusion of IACM 2025 at University of Vermont and will see his term conclude at IACM 2028.
Remigiusz Smolinski is a professor and Academic Director of the Center for International Negotiation at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany. He is the founder of The Negotiation Challenge, as well as Discurso.ai. His expertise is in leadership, negotiation performance, entrepreneurial and cross-cultural negotiations, pedagogy, and ethics.
As our incoming EIC, Remi envisions taking NCMR to new heights by implementing strategic initiatives in the journey toward taking its place as a leading voice in its field. We look forward to Remi's impact on the journal in the months and years to come as we see his visions come to fruition. While at IACM 2025, please congratulate Remi and inquire about ways that you can support his initiatives and NCMR as a whole.
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Conflict Community Opportunity:
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Rotary International is accepting applications for fully funded Rotary Peace Fellowships which will cover tuition and fees, room and board, round trip transportation, and internship and field study expenses.
Learn more about this Fellowship opportunity from Rotary International by viewing their Call for Applications, and by heading to their website.
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Thank you to the sponsors of IACM!
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SiGNAL Newsletter Editor
Dejun "Tony" Kong, University of Colorado Boulder
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Dejun “Tony” Kong, Ph.D.
Program Chair-Elect, Academy of Management Conflict Management Division
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
Associate Editor, Journal of Management
Associate Editor, Journal of Organizational Behavior
Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics
Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Tony.Kong@colorado.edu
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SiGNAL Newsletter Assistant Editor
Sarah Jensen, University of Utah
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Sarah Jensen
Ph.D. Candidate
Management & Organizational Behavior
David Eccles School of Business
University of Utah, USA
sarah.jensen@eccles.utah.edu
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A special thanks to Dejun "Tony" Kong and Sarah Jensen for their efforts to edit the SiGNAL Newsletter. Don't forget that we have our SiGNAL Archive at iafcm.org where you can find our newsletter dating back to 1986!
Questions or Comments? Please contact IACM Executive Director Brandon Charpied.
Brandon Charpied
IACM Executive Director
+1 (843) 855-0301 (Cell/Text/WhatsApp)
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