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The UN Global Compact for Transnational Business and Peace: A Need for Orchestration?

In: Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations

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  • Mariko Shoji

    (Keiai University)

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In this chapter, Abbott et al.’s (2015) theoretical framework on the orchestration of the Inter Governmental Organisation (IGO) is used to analyse the field of Business and Peace of the UN Global Compact (UNGC). It proceeds as follows. First, several theoretical questions will be examined, and an analytical framework is introduced. This is because the issues in the relationship between business and peace differ in many aspects from the typical IGO orchestration theory. Second, four specific cases are examined. Case 1: the Guidance on Responsible Business in Conflict-affected and High-risk Areas, which was adopted at the June 2010 Leaders’ Summit of the UNGC. Case 2: the Business for Peacebuilding Conference; this conference was held on 25 June 2013, co-hosted by the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the UNGC. Case 3: The Business for Peace Document. The core of this document, published by the UNGCO in 2013, is the multi-stakehoder initiaive based process it proposed for delivering peace through business. Case 4: The Oslo Business for Peace Award, initiated by the Business for Peace Foundation in 2007. The result of the analysis of these case studies forms the last section of this chapter. It stipulates that the functions of the non-law drivers (and ‘super soft laws’) are vital in the development of peace through business, and the success of such functions largely depends on the quality of their orchestration. As such the application of the theory of orchestration is vital for analysing the functions of the stakeholders responsible for creating peace through business.

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  • Mariko Shoji, 2019. "The UN Global Compact for Transnational Business and Peace: A Need for Orchestration?," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Mia Mahmudur Rahim (ed.), Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, pages 89-110, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-030-10816-8_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-10816-8_5
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