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

Informationen zum Autor Dr Jolyon Ford is an associate of the Global Economic Governance Program at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the regulation of investor and business activity in fragile, transitional and conflict-affected states, policy and regulatory options for fostering responsible and conflict-sensitive business practices, and wider public policy on the private sector's role in meeting development goals. He blogs on these issues in 'Private Sector – Public World'. Klappentext The first book to study how peace operations have engaged with business to influence its peace-building impact in fragile and conflict-affected societies. Zusammenfassung This book is the first to study how peace operations have engaged with business to influence its peace-building impact in fragile and conflict-affected societies. It argues that weak governance creates a need for international authorities to regulate the social impact of business activity in these places as a special interim duty. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jolyon Ford, Ford Jolyon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2015
• EAN: 9781107037083
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03708-3
• No. of pages: 442
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, Business and Management, LAW / International, International Relations, Peace studies and conflict resolution, International institutions, United Nations & Un Agencies, International Organisations & Institutions