Profiting from Peace

Contents: 

Introduction • Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts: Issues and Options • CURTAILING CONFLICT TRADE AND FINANCE • What Lessons from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme? • Tracking Conflict Commodities and Financing • Lessons from the UN's Counter terrorism Efforts • Combating Organized Crime in Armed Conflict • Protecting Livelihoods in Violent Economies • Improving Corporate Responsibility and Resource Management • Assessing Company Behavior in Conflict Environments • Private Financial Actors and Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Zones • Export Credit Agencies and Corporate Conduct in Conflict Zones • Revenue Transparency and the Publish What You Pay Campaign • Development Assistance, Conditionality, and War Economies • Establishing Accountability, Ending Impunity • Regulating Business in Conflict Zones: Challenges and Options • Conflict Management and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises • Improving Sanctions Through Legal Means? • Corporate Accountability Under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act • War Economies, Economic Actors, and International Criminal Law • CONCLUSION. Peace Before Profit: The Challenges of Governance • Index.

About the Author: 

Karen Ballentine is senior consultant to the New Security Programme at the FAFO Institute of Applied International Studies. Previously she was senior associate at the International Peace Academy, heading the Program on Economic Agendas in Civil Wars. She is coeditor of The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Grievance. Heiko Nitzschke, formerly senior program officer at the International Peace Academy, has also worked with the World Bank, Transparency International, and Oxfam America.