Promoting conflict-sensitive business activity during peacebuilding

Abstract: This paper considers aspects of the relationship between policies promoting private sector investment and growth, and policies consolidating peace. It covers post-conflict transitions where external authorities play a major role. A core contemporary peacebuilding policy assumption is that stimulating economic recovery is vital to sustaining political settlements and social cohesion. Yet how do we respond when policies to stimulate investment and imperatives to consolidate peace lead to contradictory choices? The paper considers framing investment-promotion activities as quasi-regulatory in nature, given that external actors are shaping and influencing private sector impacts on peacebuilding. It reflects on ideas of "transitionalism" as a distinctive policy mindset during exceptional recovery periods. It addresses three questions: (1) what is distinctive about transitional approaches to influencing the ways that business actors may impact peacebuilding (compared with "routine" devel

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
ISBN
9783908230991
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 34 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet

Erschienen in
swisspeace Working Paper ; Bd. 1/2016

Klassifikation
Politik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Bern
(wann)
2016
Urheber
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
swisspeace - Schweizerische Friedensstiftung

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-46740-7
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