ABSTRACT
This chapter presents examples from three natural resources industries: mining, timber harvesting and hydroelectric dams. It discusses mining is the longest and based on a significant piece of original research. The reason to focus on one industry intensively is to demonstrate how a peace-building paradigm operates at all stages of a resource project lifecycle. The chapter also presents highlights from conversation with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practitioners in the natural resources industries to reflect how they approach their community-level work. It also discusses how it is possible to frame CSR practice within a paradigm of positive peace. The chapter explores several natural resources companies' (NRC)-community conflicts CSR practitioners identified as exemplars of a Positive Peace paradigm. It provides a way to analyse conflict narratives from within a paradigm of positive peace. The chapter concludes that a paradigm of positive peace, framed carefully, indeed has traction with CSR professionals who handle conflict emerging within NRC-community relationships.
