Julien Hanoteau, KEDGE Professor and Maria Teresa Uribe, PHD Student attended a business conference at Indiana University
The 26th and 27th of September, the PhD student Maria Teresa Uribe and her co-supervisor Julien Hanoteau from the Centre for Sustainability, participated in the Business Horizons Workshop, “Business and Peace Scholarship: The Next 25 Years,” in Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, a conference supported by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies -University of Notre Dame.
This was an opportunity to map a scholarly and practitioner blueprint for the next 25 years of the Business and Peace field, as well as presenting the papers to be published in the forthcoming “Business Horizons Special Issue on Business and Peace Scholarship: The Next 25 Years”. The workshop allowed discussions with top scholars in the field about the role of business in peace and conflict, with a special look into the Colombian case that has been widely studied since the Peace Agreements in 2016.
María Teresa presented a paper on how the peace polysemy influences the business for peace agendas and the interactions among the diverse stakeholders in Antioquia (Colombia). She is looking forward to contributing not only to the field but also to her country’s peacebuilding process as part of her PhD thesis “Business for peace: organisational framework for Colombian peacebuilding territories”.
This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet top scholars from my field, foundational scholars from the first 25 years of the business and peace with whom I am debating with in my thesis, such as the conference hosts John Katsos, Timothy Fort and Jason Miklian. As a PhD student and junior scholar it is a big chance to meet them all in the same room to discuss the present and future or the field that I am contributing as the generation for the next 25 years.
The participants shared different ways of approaching the field with empirical evidence and theoretical contributions on how organisations can and should adjust their management and operations to adapt to the challenges of peacebuilding, with a special call to bring more to the debate on the practical implications for managers facing the complexities of fragile post-conflict scenarios.
Julien Hanoteau, Maria Teresa’s co-supervisor presented a paper on business and violent conflict in the post-Reformasi Indonesia.
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Business and Peace Scholarship: The Next 25 Years
