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Welcome to the IACM 2025 Submission Portal!

We invite you to join researchers, educators, and practitioners from around the world as we venture to Lake Champlain at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, USA at the 38th annual meeting of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM).

IACM was founded to encourage scholars and practitioners to disseminate research related to negotiation and conflict management in interpersonal, organizational, societal, and international settings. Past participants have come from the fields of communication, labor relations, law, organizational behavior, political science, psychology, sociology, and other related disciplines, and have included researchers, educators, practitioners, and Ph.D. students.

We welcome submissions that contribute new knowledge, understanding, and practice to negotiation and conflict management, spanning all research methods, related disciplines, and professional backgrounds. Submissions should cover new material, distinct from published works (including those that will appear in print before the conference), and ideally from presentations at other conferences. Submissions may be theoretical, empirical, or applied/practical in nature.


Account Creation: If this is your first time accessing the IACM 2025 portal, please create an account. Note that this account is independent from any mobts.org account or any account from prior years and will serve as your dashboard for your submissions and reviews. You do not need to input a keycode to register. Please leave that input blank when registering!

Returning Authors: If you're a returning author, you may login here or by clicking the Sign In link atop this page.


Call for Papers & Submission Guidelines: Please review both the Call for Papers and our Submission Guidelines prior to submitting your sessions.


Submission Form Preview: Please preview the submission form before submitting your session. Click here to view a PDF of the submission form process.


Key Dates!

  • Call for Papers Deadline: January 27, 2025
  • Paper Reviews Assigned: February 3, 2025
  • Paper Review Deadline: February 24, 2025
  • Paper Decision Announcements: March 10, 2025
  • Conference Registration Opens: March 10, 2025
  • Preliminary Conference Program Distributed: April 14, 2025
  • Program Presenter Registration Deadline: April 25, 2025 (At least one presenter from all accepted submissions must have registered by this date. Any submissions without at least one registered presenter will be removed from the conference program)
  • Conference Registration ‘Early Bird’ Pricing Ends: May 9, 2025 (All registration fees +$75 after this date)
  • Final Conference Program Distributed: May 23, 2025
  • On-Campus Housing Option Ends: June 9, 2025
  • Conference Dates: July 13 - 16, 2025