ABSTRACT
The literature on business-based peacebuilding was virtually nonexistent ten years ago, but has flourished since the first attempts to analyze business action in conflict areas in the 1990s. This chapter will examine the current approaches to scholarship on business-based peacebuilding as well as relevant strains of work in related fields. It is useful to begin the investigation by discussing the discourse of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and economic conditions of conflict.
