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

The first book to study how peace operations have engaged with business to influence its peace-building impact in fragile and conflict-affected societies.

Jolyon Ford (Author)

9781107037083, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 February 2015

442 pages, 3 b/w illus. 4 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.76 kg

'This is a very thoughtful, well-researched and well-written assessment of the role of regulation and the United Nations in fostering businesses' contributions to peace. It builds on a burgeoning area of contemporary research while advance an important and unique contribution to the field. Dr Ford's book is worth a close reading.' Timothy L. Fort. JD, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

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.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], Law [L], United Nations & UN agencies [JPSN1], International relations [JPS]