The presentation is about the role of (multinational) corporations in violent conflict. It is a presentation of Michelle Ruesch's bachelor thesis, given at University College Maastricht in December 2009.
3. What does this bulldozer have to do with violent conflict?
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6. Negative and positive corporate involvement Direct complicity Indirect complicity Do no harm Peace-building low Silent witness Contribution to conflict resolution negative positive 0 Negative involvement, causing and fuelling violent conflict Positive involvement, facilitating & contributing to conflict resolution high Degree of MNC involvement
7. Negative and positive corporate involvement Direct complicity Indirect complicity Do no harm Peace-building low Silent witness Contribution to conflict resolution negative positive 0 Negative involvement, causing and fuelling violent conflict Positive involvement, facilitating & contributing to conflict resolution high Degree of MNC involvement
8. Negative corporate involvement (in the original presentation, these macro- and micro level factors where shown on the blackboard next to the previous slide)
9. Positive corporate involvement (in the original presentation, these macro- and micro level factors where shown on the blackboard next to the previous slide)
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Editor's Notes
Welcome everybody, As you see and read the topic of this presentation will be about Corporations and their role in violent conflict. My name is Michelle Ruesch, and my concentration at UCM is International Relations and conflict resolution, but from an multidisciplinary aproach, also including economics and cultural studies. The reason why I came to do this magazine is basically that I was stunned by the fact that in all the courses I took about Conflict Resolution and Politics, corporations were never mentionned. I find out that this is a topic that has been largely neglected by most IR and Conflict Resolution scholars.