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标题：Regulating Business for Peace: The United Nations, the Private Sector, and Post-Conflict Recovery.
作者：Wisor, Scott
期刊名称：Global Governance
印刷版ISSN：1075-2846
出版年度：2016
期号：April
语种：English
出版社：Lynne Rienner Publishers
摘要：Jolyon Ford has written an excellent debut monograph on the regulation of business activities in postconflict reconstruction. Regulating Business for Peace advances the existing literature on business and peace and conflict in important new directions and will be indispensable for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand and integrate the private sector into peacebuilding activities. Ford draws on a nice array of research methods and disciplinary perspectives to advance his central arguments. He claims that peacebuilders, usually authorized by the United Nations, have been largely inattentive to the role of the private sector in advancing peacebuilding activities in postconflict situations. Both the formal mandates of UN-authorized peacekeeping missions and the practices of external interveners have failed to offer a regulatory framework for the private sector that might cultivate peace. Ford rightly suggests that postconflict business regulation need not focus exclusively on the "spoilers" (trying to enforce compliance among would-be bad actors) but rather must also try to cultivate virtue in the business community in such a way that it contributes to peacebuilding and governance in fragile and conflict-affected states. The optimal transitional business regulator will be responsive, responsible, and realistic. This approach wisely takes seriously the feasibility constraints in postconflict situations, noting that every instance of corruption or malpractice ought not concern that transitional business regulator. Rather, the regulator should focus on those issues that are most important for moving on the path toward sustainable peace. The book concludes with suggestions for future peacebuilding operations and directions for future research. Readers will benefit from case studies on East Timor and Liberia as well as a thorough set of references to the literature on business, peace, reconstruction, and regulation.
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Regulating Business for Peace: The United Nations, the Private Sector, and Post-Conflict Recovery.

Wisor, Scott

Regulating Business for Peace: The United Nations, the Private Sector, and Post-Conflict Recovery. By Jolyon Ford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Jolyon Ford has written an excellent debut monograph on the regulation of business activities in postconflict reconstruction. Regulating Business for Peace advances the existing literature on business and peace and conflict in important new directions and will be indispensable for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand and integrate the private sector into peacebuilding activities. Ford draws on a nice array of research methods and disciplinary perspectives to advance his central arguments. He claims that peacebuilders, usually authorized by the United Nations, have been largely inattentive to the role of the private sector in advancing peacebuilding activities in postconflict situations. Both the formal mandates of UN-authorized peacekeeping missions and the practices of external interveners have failed to offer a regulatory framework for the private sector that might cultivate peace. Ford rightly suggests that postconflict business regulation need not focus exclusively on the "spoilers" (trying to enforce compliance among would-be bad actors) but rather must also try to cultivate virtue in the business community in such a way that it contributes to peacebuilding and governance in fragile and conflict-affected states. The optimal transitional business regulator will be responsive, responsible, and realistic. This approach wisely takes seriously the feasibility constraints in postconflict situations, noting that every instance of corruption or malpractice ought not concern that transitional business regulator. Rather, the regulator should focus on those issues that are most important for moving on the path toward sustainable peace. The book concludes with suggestions for future peacebuilding operations and directions for future research. Readers will benefit from case studies on East Timor and Liberia as well as a thorough set of references to the literature on business, peace, reconstruction, and regulation.