Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miklian, Jason.

Alluri, Rina.

Katsos, John E.

Series:

Business and peacebuilding series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social responsibility of business.

Peace-building.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

The intersection of business, peace and sustainable development is becoming an increasingly powerful space, and is already beginning to show the capability to drive major global change. This book deciphers how different forms of corporate engagement in the pursuit of peace and development have different impacts and outcomes. It looks specifically at how the private sector can better deliver peace contributions in fragile, violent and conflict settings and then at the deeper consequences of this agenda upon businesses, governments, international institutions and not least the local communities that are presumed to be the beneficiaries of such actions. It is the first book to compile the state-of-the-field in one place and is therefore an essential guide for students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on the role of business in peace. Without cross-disciplinary engagement, it is hard to identify where the cutting edge truly lies, and how to take the topic forward in a more systematic manner. This edited book brings together thought leaders in the field and pulls disparate strands together from business ethics, management, international relations, peace and conflict studies in order to better understand how businesses can contribute to peacebuilding and sustainable development. Before businesses take a deeper role in the most complicated and risky elements of sustainable development, we need to be able to better explain what works, why it works, and what effective business efforts for peace and development mean for the multilateral institutional frameworks. This book does just that.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Foreword

What's old is new again

PART I: Theoretical underpinnings

1. Business and peace: A need for new questions and systems perspectives

The roots of the mobilization of business for peace

A menu of roles for business in peace

Businesses do, can or should impact socio-economic dynamics of conflict-prone places in peace-positive ways.

Businesses do, can or should impact socio-political dynamics of conflict-prone places in peace-positive ways.

Businesses do, can or should impact peacemaking dynamics in peacepositive ways.

Assumptions rather than evidence about business and peace

A profound disconnect from contemporary peacebuilding theory and practice

The high risk of suboptimal outcomes and unintended consequences

Also missing from the equation: the 'who' and the 'how'

A richer set of perspectives and questions

References

2. Business, peace, and human rights: A political responsibility perspective

Introduction

Business and human rights: overview

Corporate human rights responsibility and the nature of the corporation

Business and human rights: current themes and alternative perspectives

A BHR perspective on business and peace

Conclusion

Bibliography

3. The messy business of peace amid the tyranny of the profit motive: Complexity and culture in post-conflict contexts

Literature review

Business for Peace

War Economies

Critical Peacebuilding

Methodology

Findings: expect the unexpected

Undermining local political balances

Amplifying existing economic grievances

Generating new social conflicts

PART II: Perspectives on the corporate side.

4. Furthering business efforts to reduce social risk and promote peacebuilding: The potential of social impact bonds (SIBs)

Rationale and motivation for engagement

Public-private partnerships

Social impact bonds: what are they and how do they work?

Case studies of social impact bonds

Social impact bonds and socially responsible investments (SRIs)

Social impact bonds: potential benefits and challenges

Acknowledgments

Notes

5. Beyond rhetoric or reactivity on SDG 16: Towards a principled policy basis for engaging business in peacebuilding

I. Trends and patterns around business, peace and SDG 16

II. Problem A: proselytising advocates? Under-cooked policy and study

6. From war-torn to peace-torn? Mapping business strategies in transition from conflict to peace in Colombia

1. Introduction and main proposition

2. Peace, conflict and business strategy in Colombia: a review

3. Mapping 'business in transition'

4. Conclusions

PART III: Empirical reflections

7. "The only hope left": Differences between multinational and local company peacebuilding activities in Syria and Iraq

The current theory of business and its contribution to peace and conflict

Business and peace theory

The context of Iraq and Syria during the period of study

Doing business in non-state armed group territory in Iraq and Syria

Data analysis methodology

Research findings

Perceived positive and negative impacts by multinational companies

Perceived positive and negative impacts by local companies

Discussion and conclusion

Note

8. The contested role of local business in peacebuilding: Reflections from Sri Lanka and El Salvador

1 Introduction.

2 Methodology

3 Rising up and simmering down: The changing role of local business in peace in Sri Lanka

4 Business for peace vs. socio-economic peace in El Salvador?

5 The economic dimensions of political conflict: Comparing Sri Lanka and El Salvador

6 Conclusions: Companies respond to 'openings' but are not in it for the long haul

9. Practicing business and peace?: Considerations overheard in the field

Whereof we speak

Business and peace, business and conflict

Overheard in the field

Revitalizing the discourse

10. Large-scale investment management: The peace potential of a sovereign wealth fund

Context overview

Basic facts about the Fund

How NBIM defines "responsible investment"

Two tracks toward divestment

Avoidance of negative social impacts versus promotion of good

Managing social risks

Active engagement with corporate troublemakers

Expectation documents

Social risk and conflict

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-05722-9

0-429-61466-7

0-429-61587-6

9780429057229

OCLC:

1103218722