​What are the conditions under which businesses can move beyond ‘doing no harm’ in the fragile and conflict-affected societies where they work to deliver more tangible positive peace dividends? Designed for businesses, practitioners, scholars and others who are interested and engaged in...

Despite emerging study of business initiatives that attempt to support local peace and development, we still have significant knowledge gaps on their effectiveness and efficiency. This article builds theory on business engagements for peace through exploration of the Footprints for Peace (FOP)...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- What's old is new again -- PART I: Theoretical underpinnings -- 1. Business and peace: A need for new questions and systems perspectives -- The roots of the...

What's old is new again -- PART I: Theoretical underpinnings -- Business and peace: a need for new questions and systems perspectives -- Business, peace, and human rights: a political responsibility perspective -- The messy business of peace amid the tyranny of the profit motive: complexity and...