Peace through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the
Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact 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. Peace through Commerce will lay the groundwork for
courses in business schools on corporate social responsibility,
corporate citizenship, and global environment of business.
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.