Companies in Peace Processes
A Guatemalan Case Study
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2015
310 pages
978-3-8394-0690-8 (ISBN)
Description
The role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent years. Although the private sector is often associated with sustaining conflicts, companies are also assumed to be self-interested as well as able to support the prevention, settlement and transformation of violent conflicts.This book explores the role of the private business sector during the civil war and the peace process in Guatemala. It examines and analyses the corporate positions during this period, aiming to add to a better understanding on the potentials and limits of integrating private business actors in conflict transformation.
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Ulrike Joras (Dr. rer. nat.) works in the area of 'Business & Peace' for swisspeace in Bern, Switzerland. Before joining swisspeace, she worked for the United Nations in New York and the Center for Development Research in Bonn.
Content
- Cover Companies in Peace Processes
- Table of Contents
- List of Boxes
- List of Graphs
- List of Tables
- List of Maps
- List of Acronyms
- Acknowledgment
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Business Sector in Conflict Prevention, Conflict Settlement and Peacebuilding: Potentials and Limits of a New Type of Partnership
- 2.1 Corporate engagement in conflict management: Background of a new concept
- 2.2 Businessmen, business associations and economic elite: A closer look
- 2.3 Potential roles for business in conflict management: From conflict prevention to post-conflict peacebuilding
- 2.4 Who, how, where and why: A brief analysis of the demand for corporate engagement in conflict management
- 3 Corporate Costs of War and Peace
- 3.1 Costs of war
- 3.2 Costs of peace
- 3.3 Is there a role for business participation in conflict management? Some conclusions
- 4 The Economic and Social Structure of Guatemala
- 4.1 The Guatemalan economy and the dominance of coffee
- 4.2 Economic impacts of the war
- 4.3 Excursion: The indigenous population in Guatemala
- 5 Structure and Role of the Private Business Sector in Guatemala
- 5.1 The private sector in Guatemala - its characteristics and historic political role
- 5.2 Business organizations in Guatemala
- 6 The Private Business Sector during the Civil War
- 6.1 The war begins: The period between 1960 and 1970
- 6.2 A violent interlude: Low-intensity warfare as a business climate
- 6.3 The second war peak: The business sector between fleeing the country and developing new conflict management strategies
- 7 The Costs of Peace: Entering the Peace Process
- 7.1 Negotiating interests: The business sector during the commencement of the peace process
- 7.2 Progress and setback during the government of Serrano
- 7.3 The business sector gets more involved: The peace process during the De León- administration
- 7.4 The private sectors concurrence: The peace process comes to an end
- 8 Complying with the Peace Accords: The Private Business Sector's Role during Peace Building
- 8.1 No war but no success: A brief overview of the implementation of the peace accords
- 8.2 Is there a role for the business sector in the post-settlement phase? Some general thoughts
- 8.3 Difficult dialogues: Still no climate for peaceful conflict settlement?
- 8.4 The constitutional referendum of May 1999
- 8.5 Economic dimensions of peace
- 9 Conclusion and Policy Implications on Business Engagement in Conflict Management
- 9.1 The business sector in the Guatemalan peace processes: Findings from the case study
- 9.2 Comparison of the Guatemalan case with other peace process
- 9.3 Policy implications
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: Maps
- Appendix 2: Destruction and damage of fincas (1978-1994)
- Appendix 3: Destroyed infrastructure (1981-1995)
- Bibliography
