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Business, peacebuilding and sustainable development /

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 diffe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Miklian, Jason (Editor ), Alluri, Rina (Editor ), Katsos, John E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Colección:Business and peacebuilding series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What's old is new again
  • PART I: Theoretical underpinnings
  • Business and peace: a need for new questions and systems perspectives
  • Business, peace, and human rights: a political responsibility perspective
  • The messy business of peace amid the tyranny of the profit motive: complexity and culture in post-conflict contexts
  • PART II: Perspectives on the corporate side
  • Furthering business efforts to reduce social risk and promote peacebuilding: the potential of social impact bonds (SIBs)
  • Beyond rhetoric or reactivity on SDG 16: towards a princiipled policy basis for engaging business in peacebuilding
  • From war-torn to peace-torn? Mapping business strategies in transition from conflict to peace in Colombia
  • PART III: Empirical reflections
  • "The only hope left": differences between multinational and local coompany peacebuilding activities in Syria and Iraq
  • The contested roles of local business in peacebuilding: reflections from Sri Lanka and El Salvador
  • Practicing business and peace?" Considerations overheard in the field
  • Large-scale investment management: the peace potential of a sovereign wealth fund
  • Index.