Can companies contribute to peace and security? In the age of Global Governance are even more commercial actors engaged to political processes - also in security policy.
Up to now, commercial actors have had a rather negative connotation in conflict areas. Andreas Haidvogel discusses the possibilities and limitations of the positive engagement of commercial actors in the Ulster peace process. The claims from different stakeholders to a new responsibility of companies in security policy are not fulfiled. There is still a clear allocation of tasks between official and private actors.
"Unternehmen als Friedensmacher? Zur Rolle privatwirtschaftlicher Akteure im nordirischen Friedensprozess" ("Companies as peacemakers? The Role of commercial actors in the Ulster peace process") is published in the series "Studies of PRIF" at Nomos publishing house. The study is available for EUR 36,-.
This PhD dissertation is part of the project "The Role of Transnational Corporations in Conflict Zones" in research department "Private Akteure im transnationalen Raum".
Dr Andreas Haidvogel was research associate in research department "Private Actors in the Transnational Sphere" until 2010.