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[PDF] Business for Peace: Nepali Private Sector Gets Involved in Conflict Transformation and Peace Building
Author: Padma Jyoti, Hemlata Rai, Armin Hofmann, Helmut Grossmann
The National Business Initiative for peace (NBI)…aim[s] to harness private sector efforts in conflict transformation…[It] consists of…business associations in Nepal…The strategy aims at engaging local businesses for conflict transformation…Businesses...
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[PDF] SALW [Small Arms and Light Weapons] and Private Security Companies in South Eastern Europe: A Cause or Effect of Insecurity?
Author: Michael Page (International Alert), Simon Rynn, Zack Taylor and David Wood (Saferworld)
This report surveys the development, conduct and regulation of the private security industry in the eight countries currently party to the European Union’s Stability Pact for South East Europe…Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the...
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Oil companies accused of complicity in Sudan conflict, rights abuses
Author: Sudan Tribune
Human Rights Watch (HRW)…in a report entitled "Sudan, Oil and Human Rights,"…accused the Sudanese government of displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians, and oil companies of being accomplices seeking to control oilfields…The 754-page report...
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- Related companies: Lundin Petroleum Talisman (part of Repsol)
[PDF] Transnational Corporations in Conflict Prone Zones: Public Policy Responses and a Framework for Action
Author: Jessica Banfield (International Alert), Virginia Haufler (University of Maryland), Damian Lilly (independent consultant)
Private sector activity...is a significant factor influencing the shape and intensity of many conflicts...The basic thesis of the report...is that conflict sensitive business, and its promotion by public policymaking institutions, could become an...
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Author: Filip Verbelen, Greenpeace
L’appel de la communauté internationale pour mettre fin au commerce de bois comme élément des économies de guerre ne fait que commencer…L’exploitation forestière peut…générer d’importants bénéfices avec relativement peu d’investissements, ce qui...
- Related in-depth areas: Côte d'Ivoire Dernières infos « conflits et paix » NGO
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[PDF] UN Global Compact Case Studies of Multistakeholder Partnership: Policy Dialogue on Business in Zones of Conflict
Author: edited by Virginia Haufler, University of Maryland, on U.N. Global Compact website
Members of the UN Global Compact Policy Dialogue on Business in Zones of Conflict participate in a number of multistakeholder partnerships that seek to reduce or prevent violent conflict, manage the effects of conflict, or rebuild a country previously...
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Arms firm linked to Rwandan army chief
Author: Matt Wells, Guardian [UK]
A British company that supplied arms to Rwanda during the country's civil war has been linked to the former army chief arrested in Britain on suspicion of genocide…Research by aid organisations, the UN, and journalists has not established that any firm...
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Angola: Journalist Rafael Marques faces defamation charges over work exposing abuses in diamond industry
Rafael Marques is an independent Angolan journalist, recipient of numerous international awards including the recent Freedom of Expression award from Index on Censorship. Rafael is due to stand on trial on 24 March 2015 in Angola. He faces 11 defamati...