Business and Peace-Building

This book provides both theory and practical solutions for CEO's, line workers and managers in natural resources industries to benefit from making peace-focused, day-to-day business decisions. The book shows the benefits of re-framing social and environmental aspects of sustainable development.

Dr Carol Bond is a Lecturer in Management at the University of Queensland Business School, Australia. Dr Bond's diverse research areas include: business ethics, peacebuilding responsibilities of business, leadership, and Indigenous wisdom traditions. Carol's research focuses on large footprint industries including mining, coal seam gas, petroleum pipelines and large infrastructure projects.

1. Introduction: Peace or a Pipedream? Part 1: Reframing Business Outcomes in the Language of Peace 2. Business, Peace & Natural Resources Industries 3. Expanding the Connection between Business and Positive Peace: Natural Resource Companies as Non- state Actors Part 2: Business and Peace: Paradox or Paradigm Shift? 4. Paradigms 5. Paradigm of Positive Peace Part 3: Peace, Profit and Politics: Redefining the Possible 6. Real World Examples 7. Conclusion: Rhetoric or Reality?