by Charlie Williams   Civil war and violent social conflict drove headlines around the world in 2016 with conflict in Syria, the Mediterranean refugee crisis, and the backlash to immigration taking center stage across Europe and the US. But citizens are not the only actors who have to choose whether to flee or persist when armed conflict hits a country. “Caught in the Crossfire”, a forthcoming paper in SMJ by Li Dai, Lorraine Eden, and Paul Beamish, studies how multinational companies react to armed conflict. While armed conflict has fallen dramatically since 1990, the scholars document that the number of ongoing … Continue reading “Caught in the Crossfire”: MNCs in Armed Conflict Zones