Description
Book SynopsisLarge-scale investments in fragile states in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia become magnets for conflict, which undermines business, development and security.
International policy responds with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, with poor and often perverse results. Caught up in old ways of thinking about conflict and fragility, and an age-old fight over whether multinational corporations are good or bad for peaceful development, it leaves business-related conflicts in fragile states to multiply and fester.
Surveying a new strategic landscape of business and conflict, Brian Ganson and Achim Wennmann conclude that neither company shareholders nor advocates for peaceful development need, or should, accept the growing cost of business-related conflict in fragile states. Drawing on decades of experience from mainstream conflict prevention and violence reduction efforts, as well as promising company practice, they show
Table of Contents
Introduction: New lenses on business and conflict in fragile states
1. Predatory companies in fragile states
2. Business and peaceful development in fragile states
3. The changing landscape of business and conflict in fragile states
4. The limits of state-building
5. Responses to conflict that work
Conclusion: The case for pragmatic solutions
