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Business for peace? : The ambiguous role of "ethical" mining companies

DOI zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005836
URN zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-5836-9

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Hönke, Jana:
Business for peace? : The ambiguous role of "ethical" mining companies.
In: Peacebuilding. Bd. 2 (2014) Heft 2 . - S. 172-187.
ISSN 2164-7267
DOI der Verlagsversion: https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2014.910383

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Abstract

Multinational companies are increasingly promoted as peacebuilders. Major arguments in support of such a position emphasise both interest-based and norm/socialisation-based factors. This article uses research on large mining MNCs in eastern DRC – those that, arguably, should be most likely to build peace according to the above positions – to engage critically with the business for peace agenda. First it demonstrates the limited peacemaking, as well as active peacebuilding, activities in broader society that companies undertake. Second, it finds that even those companies deemed most likely to build peace continue relying on hybrid (in)security practice. Third, this article calls for more reflexivity concerning the implications of the business for peace research agenda. While the latter might contribute to socialising businesses into contributions to peacebuilding, it also produces companies as legitimate authorities, despite their limitations as peacebuilders. As a result, new conflict and insecurity are produced, especially for/with those displaced from land and artisanal mining pits and left with no alternative livelihood options.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Zusätzliche Informationen (öffentlich sichtbar): This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Peacebuilding on 27 May 2014, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21647259.2014.910383
Keywords: Business; Peace; Ethical; Mining Companies
Themengebiete aus DDC: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politikwissenschaft
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas
Sprache: Englisch
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Nein
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-5836-9
Eingestellt am: 19 Nov 2021 09:40
Letzte Änderung: 19 Nov 2021 09:41
URI: https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/5836

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