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The book provides a thorough analysis of how the private sector can play a role in the Responsibility to Protect.
List of contents
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.
About the author
John J. Forrer is Director of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility, Associate Research Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy, and Associate Faculty at George Washington University, Washington DC. He has researched, taught, and written on cross-sector collaborations and public-private partnerships for fifteen years, in particular emphasizing the role the private-sector can play in advancing public policy goals. Other research areas focus on business and peace, global governance and sustainable global supply chains. He has co-authored books on economic sanctions and cross-sector collaboration and published more than twenty book chapters and journal articles.Conor Seyle is Deputy Director of Research and Development at the One Earth Future Foundation, an international research and operating foundation focused on supporting good global governance in the interest of peace. He is a political psychologist with research interests in international governance, deliberative democracy, and the long-term impact of violence and traumatic events. He is the author or co-author of more than twenty-six academic and NGO publications.
Summary
The book provides an analysis of the role of the private sector in the prevention and cessation of mass atrocities, and shows how this intersects with the UN discussion on the Responsibility to Protect. It also provides concrete recommendations as to what companies can do.
Foreword
The book provides a thorough analysis of how the private sector can play a role in the Responsibility to Protect.
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'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)
