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Regulating Business for Peace: The United Nations, the Private Sector, and Post-Conflict Recovery

Regulating Business for Peace: The United Nations, the Private Sector, and Post-Conflict Recovery

Name: Regulating Business for Peace: The United Nations, the Private Sector, and Post-Conflict Recovery
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107037083
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Author: Jolyon Ford
ISBN: 9781107037083

By Jolyon Ford

Cambridge University Press January 2015

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ISBN-13: 9781107037083
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: January 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book addresses gaps in thinking and practice on how the private sector can both help and hinder the process of building peace after armed conflict. It argues that weak governance in fragile and conflict-affected societies creates a need for international authorities to regulate the social impact of business activity in these places as a special interim duty. Policymaking should seek appropriate opportunities to engage with business while harnessing its positive contributions to sustainable peace. However, scholars have not offered frameworks for what is considered 'appropriate' engagement or properly theorised techniques for how best to influence responsible business conduct. United Nations peace operations are peak symbols of international regulatory responsibilities in conflict settings, and debate continues to grow around the private sector's role in development generally. This book is the first to study how peace operations have engaged with business to influence its peace-building impact.

Part I. Policy: 1.

Business and peace: describing the gap

Part II. Practice:

2. The gap in peace operation mandates, strategies and practice

3. Timor-Leste (East Timor)

4. Liberia

Part III. Theory:

5. A theory of transitional business regulation

6. The policy basis for a transitional regulatory role

Part IV. Future:

7. Incipient practice by peace operations

8. Implementing transitional business regulation.