Conflict Prevention and Peace-building - Further Information
Related Organizations and Initiatives
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Business Council for Peace
Founded in 2002, the Business Council for Peace (Bpeace) is a non-profit international network of volunteer business people. Bpeace helps women in regions where conflict is, or was, present to turn their dreams, skills and ideas into businesses by providing strategic thinking, training and mentoring.
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Business for Middle Eastern Stability
A business-led, multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to improve bottom line performance of companies operating in the Middle East. It aims to do so by exploring the role that business can play in contributing to conflict mitigation.
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Business Humanitarian Forum
Established in 1999, the Business Humanitarian Forum has worked to bridge the gap of understanding and promote cooperation between humanitarian organizations and private business. It seeks to encourage private sector support for economic and human development in post-conflict areas and the least developed countries through dialogues, workshops and training programs.
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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: Business, Conflict and Peace Portal
This portal draws attention to positive and negative corporate conduct in conflict zones and provides access to materials on a wide range of conflict-related issues: complicity, conflict prevention, displacement, forced labour and slavery, gender, peacebuilding, killings, threats and other abuses, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, reintegration of ex-combatants, supply chain, torture and ill-treatment. Currently it covers conflicts occurring since 2000.
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CDA Collaborative Learning Projects: Corporate Engagement Project
A non-profit organization best known for its development of the peace and conflict impact assessment tool known as Do No Harm analysis. CDA is currently running a project called the Corporate Engagement Project (CEP) which offers practical management options for companies concerned with establishing, and maintaining, constructive relationships with stakeholder communities in the countries where they operate. CEP focuses on challenging working environments and closely analyzes the impacts of corporate practices on local communities and, from these, develops practical strategies by which managers can address tensions that arise between their companies and surrounding communities.
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Corporate Council on Africa
A non-profit organization of nearly 200 American companies whose goal is to reinforce and facilitate economic and commercial relations between American and African corporations, organizations and individuals. The organization publishes country profile reports on African countries.
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Human Security Gateway
A searchable online database of human security-related resources including reports, journal articles, news items and fact sheets. It is designed to make human security-related research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public.
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International Alert: Business and Peace-building
An independent peace-building organization working in over 20 countries and territories around the world. Since 1999, International Alert has been working with companies from both conflict zones and multinational corporations to help them avoid activities that risk inflaming fragile situations, and contribute to the creation of a stable political climate.
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International Crisis Group
An independent conflict resolution organization that provides detailed information about conflicts in different regions of the world. Throughout the year, the International Crisis Group produces about 90 reports and briefing papers that address specific policy issues in scores of conflict or potential conflict situations around the world. The Group also produces a monthly bulletin, CrisisWatch, which provides busy readers in the policy community, media and business with a succinct regular update on the state of play in all the most significant situations of conflict or potential conflict around the world.
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Vision of Humanity: Global Peace Index
Launched in 2007 as the reference point for the Global Peace Index (GPI) and to highlight the relationship between global peace and sustainability. GPI is composed of 24 indicators, ranging from a nation’s level of military expenditure to its relations with neighboring countries and the level of respect for human rights. GPI, which ranks 121 nations according to their relative peacefulness, is compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in conjunction with an international team of academics and peace experts.
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Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
These guidelines are a result of a dialogue between the U.S. and U.K. governments, companies in the extractive energy sector and NGOs. The principles aim to guide companies in maintaining the safety and security of their operations within an operating framework that ensures respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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World Bank: Private Sector Development in Conflict-Affected Countries
Launched by the World Bank’s Private Sector Development division, this web-portal provides a detailed reading list which reviews the emerging international debate on the best means of encouraging private sector development in high-risk economies and ensuring that it has a positive rather than negative impact.
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The Kimberly Process
The Kimberley Process, has its origins in the decision of Southern African countries to take action to stop trade in conflict diamonds, while at the same time protecting the legitimate diamond industry. The Process, chaired by South Africa, involves more than 30 governments, the European Community, the diamond industry and civil society organizations and has been establishing minimum acceptable international standards for national certification schemes relating to trade in rough diamonds.
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United Nations Website on Conflict Diamonds
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