Call for Papers: Business, armed conflict, and international law

Military tank made of dollars (Photo: Max Zolotukhin on iStock)
Photo: Max Zolotukhin on iStock

For the workshop "Business, armed conflict, and international law", we invite contributions from scholars and practitioners interested in studying the involvement of businesses in armed conflict, broadly defined, from different perspectives. We encourage both early career researchers and established experts to participate, and we endeavor to select a diverse group of participants.  The workshop will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 June 2026. Interested scholars should send a 300-word abstract by Friday 28 November 2025.

Call for Papers Business, armed conflict, and international law (pdf)

Funding and organization

The workshop is organized by Dr Alessandra Spadaro (Utrecht University) and Dr Laura Íñigo Álvarez (NOVA School of Law). It is funded by Alessandra Spadaro’s NWO Veni project “Business in and for war: the role and limits of international humanitarian law” (VI.Veni.231R.046) and Laura Íñigo Álvarez’s Erasmus+ project “Corporate Respect for Human Rights in Conflict-Affected and High Risks Areas (CAHRA)”.