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  Investing in stability: conflict risk, markets and the bottom-line

  United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2004

  While the role of extractive industries in violent conflicts in developing countries has received much international attention and efforts to promote greater corporate responsibility, similar issues also face financial institutions which invest in conflict situations.
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  Capitalizing on conflict: how logging and mining contribute to environmental destruction in Burma

  EarthRights International, 2003

  This paper presents information illustrating how trade in timber, gems, and gold is financing violent conflict, including widespread and gross human rights abuses, in Burma.
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  Options for promoting corporate responsibility in conflict zones: perspectives from the private sector

  International Peace Academy, 2002

  This paper examines private sector actors’ perceptions of and experiences with select existing and prospective measures (both voluntary and regulatory) to promote responsible business behavior in conflict zones.
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  Transnational corporations in conflict prone zones: public policy responses and a framework for action

  International Alert, 2003

  Private sector activity is a significant factor influencing the shape and intensity of many conflicts. However, there has to date been little effort to engage different types of private sector actors systematically in conflict prevention.
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  Reconstructing Iraq: a guide to the issues

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2003

  The military victory in Iraq has given rise to the challenge of rebuilding the country and delivering on President Bush’s promise of a free and democratic future for the Iraqi people. Yet post-war reconstruction and transition to self-governance are complex and extremely difficult challenges, and the case of Iraq poses unique problems.
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  Logs of war: the timber trade and armed conflict

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2002

  This report explores the relationship between the trade in timber and armed conflict.
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  Bottom of the barrel: Africa’s oil boom and the poor

  Catholic Relief Services, USA, 2003

  In the light of an expanding oil industry in Africa - centred on the oil rich Atlantic coast - this report assesses the opportunities and disadvantages the exploitation of such oil resources will bring to the poor.
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  Fuelling poverty: oil, war and corruption

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This report argues that for many developing countries, oil reserves are more likely to prove a curse than a blessing. Poor countries dependent on oil revenues have a higher incidence of four great and interconnected ills.
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  Deconstructing engagement: corporate self-regulation in conflict zones – implications for human rights and Canadian public policy

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003

  This paper examines the existing governance gap in the accountability of TNCs for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law associated with their extraterritorial operations. It assesses the adequacy of efforts at self-regulation that involves the development and implementation of voluntary standards and self-assessment and verification techniques.
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  Making a killing: the business of war

  Center for Public Integrity, Washington, 2002

  This paper argues that the superpower ideological divide that once gave a strange sort of order to the world’s wars, has now been replaced by entrepreneurs, selling arms or military expertise and support, and companies, whose drilling and mining in some of the hottest spots often prolong conflict and instability.The military downsizing that followed the end of the Cold War flooded the market wi

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