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Business and Conflict in Fragile States: The Case for Pragmatic Solutions book cover

1st Edition

Business and Conflict in Fragile States The Case for Pragmatic Solutions

By Brian Ganson, Achim Wennmann Copyright 2016
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge
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Large-scale investments in fragile states – in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia – become magnets for conflict, which undermines business, development and security. International policy responds with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, with poor and often perverse results. Caught up in old ways of thinking about conflict and fragility, and an age-old... Read more
Introduction: New lenses on business and conflict in fragile states

1. Predatory companies in fragile states

2. Business and peaceful development in fragile states

3. The changing landscape of business and conflict in fragile states

4. The limits of state-building

5. Responses to conflict that work

Conclusion: The case for pragmatic solutions

Biography

Brian Ganson, JD, is Head, Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement and Extraordinary Associate Professor, University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa. His research and consulting with multinational companies, governments, community advocates and human rights defenders focus on the nexus of business, conflict and development.

Achim Wennmann is Senior Researcher at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva; and Executive Coordinator of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. He is author of The Political Economy of Peacemaking.

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