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Release of the Global Peace Index 2009 at Center for Strategic and International Studies
June 2, 2009 from 2pm to 4pm
GPI 2009 full invite WORD.pdf
My view on this is that peace and wealth is somewhat a vertuous cycle. Certainly my own experiences in Africa, East Timor and Cambodia have shown me that business can't start until war has ceased yet violence increases when economic growth faulters.…
Having created businesses I can understand their reluctance with peace issues. Corporations are driven by the bottom line and their management success and job prospects is mainly judged by this. Shareholders generally are only interested in the bott…
You are correct in that many companies talk CSR but are only interested in their image. An exercise that I do is to look through activities to asses whether what they are doing is substaintial or a fringe issue. Another way is test whether the compa…
When analysing correlations with 140 countries there will always be outliers. South Africa, along with a handful of other countries are outliers on the GDP per capita correlations. Having a set of outliers does not mean the analysis is wrong. The in…
Stephanine the UN Global Compact does some very good work. We worked with them recently to frame some questions to their members regardinging peace. These questions were aimed at the "C" level within the corporations and there were three answers tha…
Andres I think you have made some good points here. Business struggles with knowing why engaging in peace is in the best interests of their corporation. It is our role to develop compelling research which relates to their bottom line as to why they…
The World Bank Institute and the Institute for Corporate Responsibility present an online Conference on Business and Peace.
Profile Information
- Source of my passion about the power of business to fight poverty
- I am an entrepreneur, I work for a philanthropic foundation
- Website:
- http://www.visionofhumanity.org
- Interested in:
- Potential Partners, New ventures, Expertise requests, Potential Clients
- Topics on my radar:
- Peace and Business
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