This document provides a summary of the book "Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries: Towards a Framework for Corporate Peace" by Natalie Ralph. The book addresses how multinational corporations, particularly in the oil and mining industries, can play a role in peace processes during intrastate conflicts. It explores corporate involvement at the national, community, and global levels of peace negotiations and mediation. The book presents a new framework for "Corporate Peace" and argues that corporate peacemaking has the potential to be an important element of global governance and peace efforts, while also benefiting companies and communities. The book provides a comprehensive overview of current corporate peacemaking practices and how they could be further developed and implemented based on rigorous academic

1. Peacemaking
and the Extractive
Industries
TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR CORPORATE PEACE
NATALIE RALPH
WithForewordsby Sir Mark Moody-Stuart
and Per L. SaxegaardP U B L I S H I N G
Greenleaf
Greenleaf Publishing
Aizlewood’s Mill, Nursery Street
Sheffield S3 8GG, UK
Tel: +44 (0)114 282 3475
www.greenleaf-publishing.com
Cover design by Sadie Gornall-Jones
[It] provides valuable guidance on the potential role of companies in support of
conflict resolution through stakeholder engagement, negotiation and mediation.
Hrach Gregorian, PhD, Director, Institute of World Affairs and Practitioner in
Residence, American University
The corporate world has remained a largely underexplored actor of the
peacemaking scene. Dr Ralph’s thorough research is filling this void.
Kai Sauer, Ambassador, permanent representative of Finland to the UN
It fills a vital gap in the current business and peacebuilding literature and will have
resonance for years to come.
Daniel Hyslop, Research Director, Institute for Economics and Peace
Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries is that all too rare a commodity: a
book that is theoretically informed, empirically grounded and accessible to a non-
specialist audience.
Professor David Brereton, Director of People Centres Sustainable Minerals Institute,
The University of Queensland
A terrific addition to business and peace literature.
Timothy Fort, Everleigh Chair in Business Ethics, Indiana University
Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries addresses a significant gap in
research on the political and diplomatic role of multinational corporations in
peace pro­cesses in intrastate conflict: Corporate Peacemaking. The author
focuses on transnational corporations in the oil and mining sectors, supporting
or actively participating in peace negotiations and mediation. The chapters not
only explore national-level peace processes, but also those at community and
global levels. While the focus is on extractive companies, the findings are valua-
ble to companies from all industries looking at peace-related processes.
This ground-breaking book gives a comprehensive picture of how Corporate
Peacemaking currently works, how it can be developed and implemented, and
how it is likely to impact on global governance and corporate culture in the
future. The book demonstrates that Corporate Peacemaking has the potential
to be a powerful element in global governance and peace efforts; and Ralph
shows through the business case that companies, as well as communities, will
benefit. Ralph presents a new framework for Corporate Peace that will assist
companies from all sectors in countries experiencing violent conflict, in addi-
tion to instability, human rights abuses and poor governance. Based on rigor-
ous academic research with practical case studies, it will be essential reading for
practitioners, academics, policy-makers and NGOs.
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