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Greerings Everyone,
As I mentioned in a previous post, the Business For Peace Foundation holds a conference on the topic of our conference next Thursday in Oslo, Norway. One of the awards to be given is one that recongizes individual business peopl…
Greerings Everyone,
As I mentioned in a previous post, the Business For Peace Foundation holds a conference on the topic of our conference next Thursday in Oslo, Norway. One of the awards to be given is one that recongizes individual business peopl…
A year or so ago, I had lined up a traditional academic conference to be held in Fall, 2008. It was shaping up to be a good, solid conference and I was looking forward to it.
Then I met the folks from FLOW including Michael Strong, who moderated The…
This is a tangential question, perhaps, but yesterday I was in a meeting where a couple of scholars I respect were being critical of tourism as a phenomena "where people tramp around another country" and they argued, for ecological reasons, that vir…
Hi Everyone,
I am pleased to welcome back Louis D’Amore, President and Founder of the International Institute of Peace Through Tourism to moderate this week's session. Lou's experience in this area more than merits having him lead us a second time…
I think media business, which am close to can play agreat role in peace by giving equal chance for evryone to express their views and moderating different opinions. It can easily aviod missunderstanding, which is the major cause for disturbing peace…
I my opinion the biggest problem we have to deal with is choosing the right thoughts, if we can do that we will be on the way to achieving inner peace.
Marcus Aurelius, the great philosopher who ruled the Roman Empire summed it up in eight words. Th…
I my opinion the biggest problem we have to deal with is choosing the right thoughts, if we can do that we will be on the way to achieving inner peace.
Marcus Aurelius, the great philosopher who ruled the Roman Empire summed it up in eight words. Th…
Greerings Everyone,
As I mentioned in a previous post, the Business For Peace Foundation holds a conference on the topic of our conference next Thursday in Oslo, Norway. One of the awards to be given is one that recongizes individual business peopl…
I am delighted to welcome Dean Krehmeyer, who runs the Business Roundtable's Corporate Ethics Institute. Dean is a long-time supporter of the business and peace connection, contributing intellectually, financially, and logistically. Dean's work is c…
Hi Everyone,
If there is someone who should be credited for being there "at the beginning" of the formulation of how specific business practices can contribute to peace, it would be Lou D'Amore. Lou is the founder and President of the International…
Hi Everyone,
This week we look again at issues of Doing Business in Conflict Zones. Throughout the eConference, tourism has come up again and again as an industry with a particular interest in and history in promoting peace. Our moderator this week…
Hi Everyone,
This week marks the mid-point of our eConference and focuses on "where the rubber meets the road." That is how corporations face issues when they are in the middle of a conflict zone.
Our moderator this week is Raymond Gilpin, who dire…
Greetings everyone. We have now passed having over 700 members for our discussion and over 200 posts. I am pleasantly surprised and encouraged about what this means for thiis topic.
This week our eConference heads further into scholarly research on…
Global inequalities are a really serious issue, you're right, Connor and one that I think is at the heart of the Business Fights Poverty website. One reason it is so important is that telecommunciations and the Internet make the disparity more trans…
Good question Joe,
My sense is that when you see Catch -22 situations, your main hope is to incrementally move each step forward until you reach a tipping point where you can have wholesale change. No company is going to come into a corrrupt zone a…
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- Source of my passion about the power of business to fight poverty
- I am an academic
- Industry:
- Higher Education
- About my work:
- For the last 10 years, the idea that ethical business behavior can foster sustainable peace has been the driving force of my work. This is the kind of topic that is powerful enough to get people to drop their guards a bit and be willing to listen to a lot of different ideas and disciplines. It's one that keeps you up at night - in a good way - to try to figure out how all of these issues might be put together to "work."
This eConference is the ninth conference on the topic I have organized and the papers of this conference will be published in the Journal of Business Ethics, the fourth special issue I have edited or co-edited. The three books I have written on the are Prophets, Profits, and Peace (Yale University Press, 2008), Business, Integrity, and Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and The Role of Business in Fostering Peaceful Societies (with Cindy Schipani) (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- Interested in:
- Potential Partners, Learning about work in the field
- Topics on my radar:
- I think I have had my say on this topic (although I'm sure I'll come up with a few more things to talk about too!) But my main interest at this point is to see others pick up this idea and run with it; improve it; refine it; overthrow everything I've said to date if it makes the ideas work better.
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- At 12:29pm on April 8, 2009,
Natalie Ralph said…
- Sorry Tim, in regards to my question in my former 'comment on your wall' on whether there will be conference held later this year on business and peace, you will likely need my email address..apologies! nralp@deakin.edu.au
Btw, I emailed the conference's general email address on this site but my emails bounced back.
thanks
Natalie
- At 12:24pm on April 8, 2009,
Natalie Ralph said…
- Dear Tim,
Thanks for the opportunity to participate in the e-conference. It is a fabulous initiative.
Can you advise if there will be a Peace Through Commerce conference in the US or elsewhere later this year and if there will be a call for papers?
Thanks!
Natalie
- At 7:16pm on April 2, 2009,
Solomon Brayant Mpapale said… - Dear Tim,
Your passion is marvelous sir,Please Keep it up!
Solomon.
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