Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development
Business and Peacebuilding Series

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.

Foreword (Tim Fort) Introduction Part I: Theoretical Advances in Business and Peace 1. Business and Peace: A Need for New Questions and Systems Perspectives(Brian Ganson) 2. Business, Human Rights and Ethics (Florian Wettstein) 3. The Messy Business of Peace: Complexity and the Unexpected in Post-Conflict Contexts(Gearoid Millar) 4. Business For Peace Theory: A Critique (John Forrer and Maria Prandi) Part II Business, Peace and Development in Practice 5. Norges Bank Investment Management: A New Actor for Peace? (Henrik Syse and Greg Reichberg) 6. Contextualizing and Theorizing Economic Development, Local Business and Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar (Jason Miklian) 6. Practicing Business and Peace? Current Discussions as Overheard from the Field(Ben Miller and Sarah Cechvala) 7. Business and Terrorism: The ISIS Case (John Katsos) 7. Business and Peace: Local Evidence from Sri Lanka and El Salvador (Rina Alluri and Andrea Iff) PART III: Emerging Corporate Governance Peace and Development Policies 8. Social Impact Bonds (Jennifer Oetzel and Stone Conroy) 9. Political Corporate Social Responsibility 2.0 (Michelle Westermann-Behaylo and Francois Lenfant) 10. Peace Through Process: Approaches to Corporate Human Rights Compliance in Fragile Situations (Joylon Ford) 11. Business Strategies in Transition from Conflict to Peace: The Colombia Case (Angelika Rettberg and Jason Miklian)

Jason Miklian is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and a postdoctoral fellow in business and peacebuilding at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo.

Rina M. Alluri is Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich Geography Department and co-founder and consultant at the World Habitat Research and Creativity Network (WHRC).

John E. Katsos is an Associate Professor of Management at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.