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Business and Social Peace Processes: How Can Insights from Post-conflict Studies Help CSR to Address Peace and Reconciliation?

In: Corporate Social Responsibility

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  • Natascha Mueller-Hirth

    (Robert Gordon University)

Abstract

Private sector activities have often been linked to the fuelling of conflict and violence. At the same time, there has been growing interest in the contributions that the business sector can potentially make to peace, both from within academia (for example the ‘peace through commerce’ literature) and in the global institutional realm (for example the Business for Peace agenda). Proponents of such approaches claim that businesses have roles to play not only in contributing to growth and socio-economic development, but also in resolving or preventing conflict. But what is meant by peace? The chapter engages the insights of post-conflict scholarship in order to employ a more holistic concept of peace, arguing that sustainable peace relies on the success both of a political and a social peace process. Social peace processes involves social transformation that goes beyond the ending of violence. The chapter asks how companies’ CSR activities can actively support such social peace processes and address the specific challenges of post-conflict societies, while critically engaging with some of the discourses that are central to the recent business for peace agenda. In reviewing current examples for CSR programming in post-conflict areas, it is demonstrated that social issues around reconciliation and reconstruction are frequently neglected.

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  • Natascha Mueller-Hirth, 2017. "Business and Social Peace Processes: How Can Insights from Post-conflict Studies Help CSR to Address Peace and Reconciliation?," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Stephen Vertigans & Samuel O. Idowu (ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility, chapter 0, pages 137-153, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-35083-7_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-35083-7_8
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    1. Ibrahim Alnafrah & Sulaiman Mouselli, 2020. "Constructing the Reconstruction Process: a Smooth Transition Towards Knowledge Society and Economy in Post-Conflict Syria," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 11(3), pages 931-948, September.
    2. Dresse, Anaïs & Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard & Fischhendler, Itay, 2021. "From corporate social responsibility to environmental peacebuilding: The case of bauxite mining in Guinea," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).

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