The Role of Business in the Responsibility to Protect

The book provides a thorough analysis of how the private sector can play a role in the Responsibility to Protect.

John Forrer (Edited by), Conor Seyle (Edited by)

9781316609729, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 March 2022

257 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.383 kg

'This book, with its focus on how business actors may contribute to the global Responsibility to Protect Agenda (R2P), pioneers a whole new agenda for research and policy formulation. In the process, the authors challenge our standard conceptions of both business and R2P.' Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

The Role of Business in the Responsibility to Protect closes the gap between research on the Responsibility to Protect and the private sector, as previous research has focused only on state responsibilities and state actors. This book examines in detail the developing research on the significant role that private sector actors can play in promoting peace and stability. Contributors to this volume explore the key arguments for where, why, and how private sector actors can contribute to the prevention and cessation of mass atrocity crimes; and how this can inform and extend the UN policy discussion around Responsibility to Protect. The contributors include lead voices in the Responsibility to Protect discourse as well as central voices in business and peace literature.

Overview: the role of business in R2P John Forrer and Conor Seyle
Introduction: the private sector, the United Nations, and the Responsibility to Protect Edward Luck
1. Selling R2P: time for action Victor MacDiarmid and Tina Park
2. Why not business? Tim Fort and Michelle Westermann-Behaylo
3. Responsibility to protect trumps business as usual: how corporate leaders build heroism to face atrocities Alain Lemperuer and Rebecca Herrington
4. The Responsibility to Protect, Inc. Jonas Claes
5. The Kenyan private sector's role in mass atrocity prevention, cessation and recovery Patrick Obath and Victor Owuor
6. R2P and the extractive industries Jill Shankleman
7. Information technology, private actors, and the Responsibility to Protect Kirsten Martin
8. Corporate responsibility to protect populations from mass atrocities Vesselin Popovski
9. The private sector and atrocities prevention Alex Bellamy
10. The way forward: discovering the shared interests between business and R2P John Forrer and Conor Seyle.

Subject Areas: Private international law & conflict of laws [LBG], Corporate governance [KJR], Business ethics & social responsibility [KJG]