ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the emerging, and rapidly developing, discourse of corporate citizenship, and highlights its relevance for human security proponents and practitioners. It begins with a brief description of these two discourses, highlighting the similarities in their espoused aspirations. Within the broad range of corporate citizenship activities the chapter then focuses on business activity in relation to areas and instances of violent conflict: areas of particular concern to the human security community. It shows that sustainable enterprise more fully reflects the systemic nature of the movement to incorporate social and environmental issues into commercial activity than corporate citizenship. Corporate citizenship has largely been generated as a response to challenges to the principles and practices of contemporary globalisation processes, dominated by the economic philosophy of neo-liberalism. Areas of violent conflict, widespread human rights violations and political repression are of particular concern to both the human security and the corporate citizenship communities.
