As the field of business and human rights matures and research projects become more nuanced, the need to draw together different threads and collaborate between disciplines becomes greater. Building on the successful outcome of the 2016 event, the Second Business and Human Rights Young Researchers Summit took placce on 6-8th April in St Gallen, Switzerland... The debate [...] yielded a long list of insights and challenges, [including:]

• ...a need for a more effective dialogue between economic actors and the normative structures that support them at the international, regional and domestic level...
• ...[the recognition that] all actors need to be “visible” in the process of standard-setting and enforcement...
• Effective implementation and compliance mechanisms require a systemic approach to legal dilemmas...
• ...the challenges of different terminology – and criteria – across actors and disciplines...