The Role of Business in the Responsibility to Protect

John Forrer, Conor Seyle

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781107156128
• eBook ISBN: 9781316777671
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

The Role of Business in the Responsibility to Protect closes the gap between research on the Responsibility to Protect and the private sector, as previous research has focused only on state responsibilities and state actors. This book examines in detail the developing research on the significant role that private sector actors can play in promoting peace and stability. Contributors to this volume explore the key arguments for where, why, and how private sector actors can contribute to the prevention and cessation of mass atrocity crimes; and how this can inform and extend the UN policy discussion around Responsibility to Protect. The contributors include lead voices in the Responsibility to Protect discourse as well as central voices in business and peace literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Overview: The Role of Business in R2P
• Introduction: The Private Sector, the United Nations, and the Responsibility to Protect
• 1 Selling R2P: Time for Action
• 2 Why Not Business?
• 3 Responsibility to Protect Trumps Business as Usual
• 4 The Responsibility to Prevent, Inc.
• 5 The Kenyan Private Sector’s Role in Mass Atrocity Prevention, Cessation, and Recovery
• 6 R2P and the Extractive Industries
• 7 Information Technology, Private Actors, and the Responsibility to Protect
• 8 Corporate Responsibility to Protect Populations from Mass Atrocities
• 9 The Private Sector and Atrocities Prevention
• 10 The Way Forward
• Index