Call for Papers | RSO | Organizing for Peace: Theory, Practice, and Transformation
Research in the Sociology of Organizations Volume (2028)
We are pleased to share the Call for Papers | RSO | Organizing for Peace: Theory, Practice, and Transformation
This Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO; published by Emerald) volume aims to advance theoretical understanding of organizing for peace while remaining grounded in empirical realities. We seek papers that apply established organizational theories to peace contexts, develop new theoretical frameworks, or offer rich empirical insights that inform theory development to build a sustained scholarly dialogue that integrates multidisciplinary approaches with the goal of establishing organizing for peace as a coherent area of inquiry within organization and management studies.
Interest in organizing for peace is surging across the scholarly community. Building on a scholarly evolution of the idea of peace, and why peace can displace war as a viable institution (Rapoport, 1992: Kopelman, 2020), recent calls, including Organization Studies' Agora section on "Organizing in/for Peace and War Times" (Meyer & Quattrone, 2023) and the Journal of Management Studies special issue on "Management in Times of Geopolitical Tensions and Turmoil" (Armanios et al., 2025), signal that our field is ready to engage seriously with these challenges. We invite conflict management scholars to submit papers exploring how diverse Organization Theory perspectives can be applied to the study of organizing for peace, as well as empirical and methodological contributions that advance our understanding of organizing for peace.
You are invited to Submit your Proposal by December 30, 2025
With kind regards,
Shirli
on behalf of the editorial team:
Ambreen Ben-Shmuel, Linda Jakob Sadeh, John Katsos, Shirli Kopelman, François Maon, and Joanne Murphy
Editors, RSO Volume on Organizing for Peace
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