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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Fuelling Conflict or Financing Peace and Development: Part 2

In determining whether MNCs can play an effective role in conflict prevention, it is essential to understand the factors that affect corporate behaviour in conflict zones. This requires an evaluation of the risk assessment methodologies that underlie corporate decisions about their investments in a conflict-prone country, and an analysis of the... More

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Fuelling Conflict or Financing Peace and Development: Part 1

Foreign direct investment by western-based MNC's in developing countries is argued to be both a potential source of conflict and an instrument to promote development and peace. Yet there has been very little analysis of the micro-level factors that determine whether an MNC is likely to have a positive or negative ipmapct on a... More

Thursday, August 27, 2015

The Private Sector and Conflict Prevention Mainstreaming

This is the first of several reports that identify a role for CIFP in providing a risk assessment service to the private sector. In discussing the role of the private sector in preventing violent conflict, this report focuses primarily on multinational corporations (MNCs). Issues related to the risks and responsibilities of MNCs in conflict-prone... More

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Private Sector Risk Analysis and Conflict Impact Assessment: Measuring the Reverse Flow of Risk

This report is the follow-up submission to Ashley Campbell's paper entitled The Private Sector and Conflict Prevention Mainstreaming: Risk Analysis and Conflict Impact Assessment Tools for Multinational Corporations. Based on the established need to mainstream conflict prevention in the private sector, this report provides multinational companies... More

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Corporate Social Responsibility: The Business Case

This is the first of several reports that identify a role for CIFP in providing a risk assessment service to the private sector. In discussing the role of the private sector in preventing violent conflict, this report focuses primarily on multinational corporations (MNCs). Issues related to the risks and responsibilities of MNCs in conflict-prone... More

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Commerce & Conflict: Angola and DiamondWorks

Through the application of CIFP Country Risk Indicators, this report analyzes the interplay of Angolan country and industry dynamics with the corporate activity of DiamondWorks, a Canadian-owned diamond mining company that held operations in the province of Lunda Norte during the year 1998. This analysis is used to identify volatile country and... More

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Measuring the Reverse Flow of Risk: A Case Study of the Monywa Copper Project in Burma

CIFP has its origins in a prototype geopolitical database developed by the Canadian Department of National Defence in 1991. The prototype project called GEOPOL covered a wide range of political, economic, social, military, and environmental indicators through the medium of a rating system. In 1997, under the guidance of Andre Ouellete, John... More

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Reforming the Financier to Reduce Intrastate Conflict

This paper has three complementary objectives: to examine whether Export Development Canada (EDC) may have contributed to intrastate conflict by providing financing to Canadian companies operating in conflict-prone countries; to illustrate that export credit agencies (ECA) should be seen as a tool for the implementation of a state's foreign... More

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Measuring the Reverse Flow of Risk: A Case Study of the Marlin Mine Project in Guatemala

This report was written to analyze the involvement of a Canadian mining company in Guatemala in order to better understand how the actions of a multinational corporation (MNC) can positively and negatively affect an area characterized by latent conflict. This case study was modelled after a similar case study performed by Terry Bell on... More

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Tools for The Extractive Industry

This is the first of several reports that identify a role for CIFP in providing a risk assessment service to the private sector. In discussing the role of the private sector in preventing violent conflict, this report focuses primarily on multinational corporations (MNCs). Issues related to the risks and responsibilities of MNCs in conflict-prone... More

Friday, October 25, 2013

Indicators for the Extractive Industry- Sample Brief

The successful conclusion of the first multi-party elections in 46 years and its eventual acceptance by all parties bodes well for state legitimacy. Worsening of the security situation affects government cohesion and overall authority. Capacity also continues to be challenged by the state’s inability to deploy resources toward productive ends,... More

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