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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I CONTEXT -- 1. Business and Peace: Describing the Gap -- 1.1. Regulation -- 1.1.1. General: Matching Private Influence with Public Accountability -- 1.1.2. Specific: Existing Schemes to Regulate Business Impact on Peace -- 1.2. Law -- 1.2.1. International Law and Business Responsibility -- 1.2.2. International Law and Post-Conflict Situations -- 1.3. Policy -- 1.3.1. Policy Frameworks on Fragile States and Conflict-Sensitive Business Practices -- 1.3.2. Policy Frameworks on Engaging the Business Sector in Peace and Development -- 1.4. Literature -- 1.4.1. The Political Economy of Peace and Conflict -- 1.4.2. Peacebuilding and the Business Sector: The General Gap -- 1.4.3. Peacebuilding and the Business Sector: The Specific Gap -- pt. II PRACTICE -- 2. The Gap in Peace Operation Mandates, Strategies, and Practice -- 2.1. The Evolution of Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding -- 2.1.1. A Working Typology of Peace Operations -- 2.1.2. Peace Operations as Regulators: Existing and Analogous Practice -- 2.2. Identifying the Gap: The Lack of Explicit Mandates to Engage Business -- 2.2.1. Identifying the Gap: Findings -- 2.2.2. Illustrating the Gap: Examples -- 3. East Timor/Timor-Leste 1999 -- 2009 -- 3.1. Context -- 3.1.1. Before 1999: Colonisation, Occupation, Conflict -- 3.1.2. After 1999: The Task Facing UNTAET -- 3.2. Actions: UNTAET as a Transitional Business Regulator -- 3.2.1. Generic Business Regulation by UNTAET -- 3.2.2. UNTAET and the Impact of Business on Peacebuilding -- 3.3. Omissions: UNTAET's Legacy of UN Neglect of the Business Sector -- 3.3.1. Failure to Engage the Business Sector: Patterns -- 3.3.2. Failure to Engage the Business Sector: Reasons -- 3.4. Evaluation -- 3.4.1. Lost Opportunities: Two Examples -- 3.4.2. Lost Opportunities: The Peacebuilding Legacy -- 4. Liberia 2003 -- 2013 -- 4.1. Context -- 4.1.1. Slavery and Statehood: Violence and Plunder -- 4.1.2. Civil Conflicts: T̀he Business of War' and Sanctions -- 4.1.3. The 2003 Peace Agreement and Creation of UNMIL -- 4.1.4. 2003: The Challenge Facing UNMIL -- 4.2. Actions: UNMIL as a Regulator of Sanctions-Affected Sectors -- 4.2.1. Diamonds -- 4.2.2. Timber -- 4.3. Actions: UNMIL as a Regulator of the Rubber Sector -- 4.3.1. The Rubber Task Force -- 4.3.2. Balancing Community and Concessionary Interests -- 4.4. Omissions: UNMIL and Contract-Making by the Transitional Government -- 4.4.1. The Major Resource Contract Negotiations -- 4.4.2. Evaluation of UNMIL Inaction on Contract-Making -- 4.5. Omissions: Examples of Lost Opportunities to Engage the Business Sector -- 4.5.1. The Capital: Non-Engagement with Liberian Business Groups -- 4.5.2. The Counties: UNMIL and F̀unny Games' in Buchanan -- 4.5.3. The Iron Ore Sector: Security Engagement and No More -- 4.6. Evaluation -- pt. III THEORY -- 5. A Theory of Transitional Business Regulation -- 5.1. Theories of Responsive Regulation and Networked Governance -- 5.1.1. Responsive Regulation Theory -- 5.1.2. The Regulatory P̀yramid' -- 5.1.3. Networked Nodal Governance -- 5.2. A Theory of Transitional Business Regulation -- 5.2.1. Attribute A: R̀ESPONSIVE' -- 5.2.2. Attribute B: R̀ESPONSIBLE' -- 5.2.3. Attribute C: R̀EALISTIC' -- 6. The Policy Basis for a Transitional Regulatory Role -- 6.1. Facing the C̀ompliance Trap' -- 6.2. Responsibility in Regulation of the Business Sector -- 6.2.1. The Undue Influence Critique -- 6.2.2. The C̀apture' or Corruption Critique -- 6.2.3. The T̀urn to Ethics' Critique -- 6.3. Regulatory Roles for Outsiders in Post-Conflict Societies -- 6.3.1. Questions of Effectiveness -- 6.3.2. Questions of Legitimacy -- 6.4. Reinforcing the Policy Foundations of Transitional Business Regulation -- 6.4.1. Between the Ostrich and the Trojan Horse -- 6.42. Moving beyond Critical Apprehensions -- 6.4.3. The UN Security Council and Regulatory Roles for Peace Operations -- pt. IV FUTURE -- 7. Incipient Practice by Peace Operations -- 7.1. Despite the Gap: Signs of Incipient Regulation of Business for Peace -- 7.1.1. Implicit Mandates -- 7.1.2. Examples of Incipient Practice -- 7.2. Closing the Gap? Emerging Practice in Special Political Missions -- 7.2.1. The Integrated Peacebuilding Missions in Africa -- 7.2.2. The UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA) -- 8. Implementing Transitional Business Regulation -- 8.1. Seeing Like a Regulator: Regulatory Disposition -- 8.1.1. Regulatory Disposition -- 8.1.2. Seeing Like a Regulator -- 8.1.3. Mandating Transitional Business Regulation -- 8.2. Seeing Business: R̀esponsible' Regulation and Principled Engagement -- 8.2.1. A Blind-Spot for the Business Sector -- 8.2.2. Future Encounters: Interaction as Regulation -- 8.2.3. Responsibility in Engaging with Business -- 8.3. Seeing Others: R̀esponsive' Regulation and Networked Governance -- 8.3.1. From Theory to Practice in Networking Business for Peace -- 8.3.2. Addressing Practical Difficulties -- 8.4. Seeing Clearly: R̀ealistic' Regulation and Gradually M̀uddling Through' |
| Summary |
The first book to study how peace operations have engaged with business to influence its peace-building impact in fragile and conflict-affected societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 7, 2015) |
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| Subject |
United Nations -- Peacekeeping forces.
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| SUBJECT |
United Nations fast |
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Peace-building -- Economic aspects
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Business enterprises -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Postwar reconstruction -- Economic aspects
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Business ethics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Business enterprises -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Peace-building -- Economic aspects
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Peacekeeping forces
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Postwar reconstruction -- Economic aspects
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316203897 |
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1316203891 |
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9781139583725 |
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1139583727 |
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