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Business and Peace-Building: The Role of Natural Resources Companies book cover

1st Edition

Business and Peace-Building The Role of Natural Resources Companies

By Carol Bond Copyright 2019
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge
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In a world struggling to adapt to seismic social and environmental changes, the time is now for businesses to prioritise creating local conditions of peace. This book builds on original research foregrounding ‘peace’ as a core business outcome for natural resources industries. Especially in non-warlike situations where natural resources industries have exacerbated or caused conflict,... Read more

1. Introduction: Peace or a Pipedream?



Part 1: Reframing Business Outcomes in the Language of Peace



2. Business, Peace & Natural Resources Industries



3. Expanding the Connection between Business and Positive Peace: Natural Resource Companies as Non- state Actors



Part 2: Business and Peace: Paradox or Paradigm Shift?



4. Paradigms



5. Paradigm of Positive Peace



Part 3: Peace, Profit and Politics: Redefining the Possible



6. Real World Examples



7. Conclusion: Rhetoric or Reality?

Biography

Dr Carol Bond is a Lecturer in Management at the University of Queensland Business School, Australia. Dr Bond’s diverse research areas include: business ethics, peacebuilding responsibilities of business, leadership, and Indigenous wisdom traditions. Carol’s research focuses on large footprint industries including mining, coal seam gas, petroleum pipelines and large infrastructure projects.

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