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The true success of the conference will not rest solely on individual presentations but on the meaningful exchanges and conversations they inspire. All registered participants will be integral to this ongoing dialogue. In addition to thought-provoking panel discussions and presentations, the conference will feature networking opportunities, interactive workshops, and a public lecture designed to foster collaboration and active engagement.
We warmly invite you to join us in Niagara Falls, New York, for this landmark international gathering—a forum for collaboration, research sharing, and collective action toward workplaces free of mobbing and psychological harm.
2026 Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing
The official video proceedings of the 2026 Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing (NCWM), held July 20–22, 2026, at Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York, USA. Hosted by the World Association for Research on Workplace Mobbing (WARWM) and Niagara University, the conference brought together researchers, practitioners, educators, students, attorneys, and workplace professionals from around the world to examine workplace mobbing and promote healthier, more respectful, and dignified workplaces.
2027 Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing
We are grateful to all of our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers who helped make the 2026 conference an outstanding experience. Your participation, enthusiasm, and support contributed to the success of the event.
Planning is already underway for the 2027 Conference, and we look forward to bringing you another engaging and impactful experience. Please check back for updated information, including dates, registration details, speakers, and event announcements.
We look forward to seeing you in 2027!
About The Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing
This conference initiates an effort to establish workplace mobbing as a comprehensive scholarly discipline and aims to raise public awareness of mobbing, and establish a connected and interactive community of mobbing scholars, labor experts, and committed attorneys, with the following objectives:
- A clear conceptualization of workplace mobbing: Identify clear empirical distinctions that set mobbing apart from the broader term of bullying, emphasizing the multidimensional structural framework of workplace mobbing.
- Mobbing as a scholarly subfield: Establish a disciplinary framework for mobbing, acknowledging its presence in psychology, sociology, administration, political science, economics, and many other disciplines.
- Scientific research on workplace mobbing: Creating a peer-reviewed journal: The Journal of Workplace Mobbing. Encourage theory and research on root causes and common consequences, profiles of mobbers, and implications for organizations.
- Policy impact: Identifying directions for future research and promising initiatives for policies aiming for generalizable findings and effective anti-mobbing policies and laws.
Co-Sponsors
Niagara University
Niagara University has graciously offered to host this inaugural event alongside the nonprofit World Association for Research on Workplace Mobbing (WARWM).
Niagara UniversityThe Edwin Mellen Press
The Edwin Mellen PressSocial Medicine
Social MedicineJournal of Workplace Mobbing
The Journal of Workplace Mobbing, published by the World Association for Research on Workplace Mobbing (WARWM), has been added to the conference website as an important new resource for scholars and practitioners in the field. Notably, the inaugural issue of the journal features a selection of papers presented at the 2024 Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing, highlighting key research findings and insights shared during the event.
Past Conferences
| Year | In-person | Virtual |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26 | 50 |
| 2025 | 39 | 52 |
Contact
Please direct all questions and inquiries to the Conference Chair and Registrar, Dr. Qingli Meng, using form below.
Scientific Committee of Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing
- Chair and Registrar: Qingli Meng, Criminology, Niagara University
- Robert Ashford, Law, Syracuse University
- Walter S. DeKeseredy, Criminology, West Virginia University
- Joseph Donnermeyer, Criminology, Ohio State University
- Janie Harper, Anthropology, Independent Scholar
- Gorazd Meško, Criminology, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Richard Peltz-Steele, Law, University of Massachusetts
- Florencia Peña Saint-Martin, Anthropologist, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico
- Eve Seguin, Political and Social Science, University of Quebec in Montreal
- Peter Wylie, Socioeconomics, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
- Tim Ireland, Provost, Niagara University
- Kenneth Westhues, Sociology, University of Waterloo
One of the hardest things to learn about mobbing is that it can happen in any organization, even those that pride themselves on their ethical standards. It’s often invisible until it becomes unbearable for the victim.Kenneth Westhues Canadian Sociologist
Learning about mobbing is learning to see a group’s collective cruelty, not just the actions of individuals. It is a lesson in how the power of the majority can be used to crush the individual.René Girard (paraphrased) French Historian
Mobbing is a ‘psycho-terror'Heinz Leymann Swedish Academic
Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.Konrad Lorenz Austrian Zoologist, Ethologist, and Ornithologist