Peace Through Commerce

<p><i>Peace through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact </i>contains a foreword introduction and twenty-one chapters by major business leaders and scholars who discuss the issues set out by the UN Global Compact. The chapters address the purpose of the corporation; the influence of legal and peace studies; the experience of career NGO officials and of business leaders; how commerce can help promote peace; and how we might envision the future. Ten case studies document the efforts of individual businesses including IBM Chevron Bristol-Myers-Squibb General Electric Nestle and Ford to successfully serve society's interests as well as their own. <i>Peace through Commerce</i> will lay the groundwork for courses in business schools on corporate social responsibility corporate citizenship and global environment of business.</p><p>Contributors: Mark Moody-Stuart Oliver F. Williams C.S.C. Marilise Smurthwaite Timothy L. Fort Michelle Westermann-Behaylo Douglass Cassel Sean O'Brien John Paul Lederach Willie Esterhuyse Mary Anderson David B. Lowry Donal A. O'Neill Klaus M. Leisinger Ofelia C. Eugenio Brigitte Hélène Scherrer Samery Abdelnour Babiker Badri Oana Branzei Susan McGrath David Wheeler Gerald F. Cavanagh S.J. Mary Ann Hazen Brad Simmons David Berdish John Bee Lisa Newton Stanley Litow Marshall Greenhut Bob Corcoran Daniel Malan Alexandra Guáqueta Thomas Costa Lee Tavis and Carolyn Y. Woo.</p>