Publications

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Jason Miklian has published 75+ academic articles, books, and policy reports since 2010. He is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo and was nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. His publications span business and peace, crisis management, polycrisis, AI governance, fragile states, and sustainable development.

Books

Responsible Management in Crisis: A Global Case Primer
2025 Book Cambridge University Press
Ethical Leadership in Conflict and Crisis
2024 Book Cambridge Elements
Ethical Leadership in Polycrisis: Evidence from Leaders on How to Make More Peaceful, Sustainable, and Profitable Communities
2024 Book Cambridge University Press
Crisis: A Global Primer
2023 Book Cambridge University Press
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
2022 Book Unknown
Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development
2019 Book Routledge
Does international aid help women peacebuilders in Nepal?
2017 Book Women, Peace and Security in Nepal
The Purification Hunt
2017 Book Windows into a Revolution

Articles

A New Digital Divide? Coder Worldviews, the 'Slop Economy,' and Democracy in the Age of AI
2026 Article Information, Communication and Society
Digital Governance in Hybrid Regimes: How Global Social Media Platforms Navigate the Space Between Democracy and Authoritarianism
2026 Article Working Paper
How Artificial Intelligence LLM Engines Shape the Global Conflict Information Environment
2026 Article arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.14197
A Problem of the Present: What Artificial Intelligence Tools Can (and Can’t) Deliver for Business Under Crisis and Political Instability
2026 Article Business Horizons
Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescriptions? Testing Ten of Karl Marx's Hypotheses Against Twenty-First-Century Data
2026 Article Working Paper
Sovereignty for Sale? Quantifying the 'Network State' Economy
2026 Article Working Paper
Stochastic Parrots or Singing in Harmony? Testing Five Leading LLMs for their Ability to Replicate a Human Survey with Synthetic Data
2026 Article arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.00059
“That’s AI Slop, You Bot!”: Studying Accusations, Evidence, and Credibility in Online Discourse Towards LLM-Generated Comments
2026 Article arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.12073
The Quiet and the Compliant: How Regulation and Polarization Shape Conventional Wisdoms on Corporate Social Engagement in High-risk Settings
2026 Article ScienceOpen Preprints
What is an Academic Article For? The Production of Scholarly Work and its Meaning in an Agentic AI World
2026 Article Working Paper
Business and Peace, Part II: Positioning B+P for the Next 20 Years
2025 Article Business Horizons
Business and Violent Conflict as a Multidimensional Relationship: The Case of Post-Reformasi Indonesia
2025 Article Business Horizons
Business Survival Strategies in a Polycrisis: SME Experiences from Beirut, Lebanon
2025 Article Business Horizons
In the Relational Sandbox: Deep Democracy and Technology
2025 Article Proceedings of Nordes 2025: Relational Design
Small Business Leadership, Peacebuilding, and Citizen Perceptions of Businesses as Peacebuilders: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
2025 Article Society and Business Review
Systems Analysis and Peacebuilding: A Conceptual Stock-Taking and Forward Research Agenda
2025 Article Peacebuilding
Unlocking the Peace Premium: An Evidence-Based Review of the Potentials and Pitfalls of Private Sector Finance for Conflict Transformation
2025 Article SSRN Electronic Journal
Business and Peace, Part I: Insights from the First 20 Years of B+P Scholarship
2024 Article Business Horizons
Digital Technologies and Governance: Unpacking Differences by Regime Type
2024 Article Academy of Management Proceedings
Is media sentiment associated with future conflict events?
2024 Article Advance (SAGE Preprints)
Business, Politics, and Patriotism: Relationships Between Antonio López de Santa Anna and Foreign Nationals in Mexico, 1829–1847
2023 Article International History Review
Empresarios y transición en Colombia: de un abrazo cálido a un saludo reservado
2023 Article Andes
The Business of Sustainability as a Governance Tool
2023 Article Handbook of International Development and the Environment (Edward Elgar Publishing)
A New Crisis Playbook - Special Issue Supplement
2022 Article Harvard Business Review
Business, Peacebuilding, Violent Conflict and Sustainable Development in Myanmar: Presenting Evidence from a New Survey Dataset
2022 Article Journal of Asia Business Studies
A New Crisis Playbook for an Uncertain World
2021 Article Harvard Business Review
SMEs and Exogenous Shocks: A Conceptual Literature Review and Forward Research Agenda
2021 Article International Small Business Journal
The Power of Community Partnerships in Times of Crisis
2021 Article Harvard Business Review
What Covid-19 Taught Us About Doing Business During a Crisis
2021 Article Harvard Business Review
Entrepreneurial Strategies to Address Rural-Urban Climate-Induced Vulnerabilities: Assessing Adaptation and Innovation Measures in Dhaka, Bangladesh
2020 Article Sustainability
Research in the Time of COVID-19
2020 Article Forum for Development Studies
The Business–Peace Nexus: 'Business for Peace' and the Reconfiguration of the Public/Private Divide in Global Governance
2020 Article Journal of International Relations and Development
Theorizing Business and Local Peacebuilding Through the 'Footprints of Peace' Coffee Project in Rural Colombia
2020 Article Business & Society
A Seat at the Table: Capacities and Limitations of Private Sector Peacebuilding
2019 Article Policy Report
Broadening 'Business', Widening 'Peace': A New Research Agenda on Business and Peace-Building
2019 Article Conflict, Security & Development
Contextualising and Theorising Economic Development, Local Business and Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar
2019 Article Conflict, Security and Development
From War-Torn to Peace-Torn? Mapping Business Strategies in Transition from Conflict to Peace in Colombia
2019 Article Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development (Routledge, book chapter)
Responsible Business in Fragile Contexts: Comparing Perceptions from Domestic and Foreign Firms in Myanmar
2019 Article Sustainability
The Role of Business in Sustainable Development and Peacebuilding: Observing Interaction Effects
2019 Article Business and Politics
Towards Global Business Engagement with Development Goals? Multilateral Institutions and the SDGs in a Changing Global Capitalism
2019 Article Business and Politics
What's Old is New Again: Bridging Business and Peacebuilding from the 17th to the 21st Century
2019 Article Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development (Routledge, book chapter)
A New Research Approach for Peace Innovation
2018 Article Innovation and Development
Business and Peacebuilding: Seven Ways to Maximize Positive Impact
2018 Article SSRN Working Papers
Gaming the System? Testing the Ability to Artificially Generate Academic Citations Through Incentive-Based Promotion
2018 Article SSRN Working Papers
Mapping Business-Peace: Five Assertions for How Businesses Create Peace
2018 Article Business, Peace and Sustainable Development
Conflict, Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian Security: Understanding Violent Attacks Against Aid Workers
2017 Article International Peacekeeping
Mapping Business-Peace Interactions: Opportunities and Recommendations
2017 Article Business, Peace and Sustainable Development
Multinational Enterprises, Risk Management, and the Business and Economics of Peace
2017 Article Multinational Business Review
Smart Cities, Mobile Technologies and Social Cohesion in India
2017 Article Global Policy (Sage)
The Dark Side of New Business: How International Economic Development in Myanmar Helped Accelerate Ethnic Cleansing
2017 Article Harvard International Review
Bringing the Region Back In? Deciphering India's Engagement with South Asia
2016 Article
How Businesses Can Be Effective Local Peacebuilders – Evidence from Colombia
2016 Article SSRN Working Papers
Monopolies of Violence in Developing Democracies: Emerging Evidence from India
2016 Article SSRN Working Paper
Moving media and conflict studies beyond the CNN effect
2016 Article Review of International Studies
Religion, Poverty and Conflict in a Garbage Slum of Ahmedabad
2016 Article International Area Studies Review
A Tale of New Cities: The Future of Urban Planning in the Developing World
2014 Article Harvard International Review
Business for Peace: The New Paradigm of International Peacebuilding and Development
2014 Article SSRN / Policy Report
The Past, Present and Future of the Liberal Peace
2014 Article Strategic Analysis
Corruption, Justice and Violence in Democratic India
2013 Article SAIS Review of International Affairs
Fluid Markets: The Business of Beer Meets the Ugliness of War
2013 Article Foreign Policy
India's Human Security: Lost Debates, Forgotten People, Intractable Challenges
2013 Article Unknown
Hearts and Mines: A District-Level Analysis of the Maoist Conflict in India
2012 Article International Area Studies Review (SAGE)
The Political Ecology of War in Maoist India
2012 Article Politics, Religion & Ideology
Revolutionary conflict in federations: the Indian case
2011 Article Conflict, Security & Development
The perils of 'going local': liberal peace-building agendas in Nepal
2011 Article Conflict, Security & Development
The purification hunt: the Salwa Judum counterinsurgency in Chhattisgarh, India
2009 Article Dialectical Anthropology
International Media's Role on U.S.-Small State Relations: The Case of Nepal
2008 Article Foreign Policy Analysis
Nepal – The (Flawed) View from the United States
2008 Article Strategic Analysis
On the State of Media Violence in Nepal
2007 Article Strategic Analysis

Research Areas

Business & Peace
Crisis Management
Polycrisis
AI Governance
Fragile States
Sustainable Development