ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses four approaches to enhancing human security and attempts to develop a model that can successfully link human security with sustainable enterprise. The four approaches are statist approach, messianic approach, corporate approach and developmental approach. The chapter addresses key questions: What are the threats to sustainable enterprise in Africa? What are the opportunities? Who are the key actors putting sustainable enterprise on the development agenda, how do they network and whose interests do they promote? What is Africa’s record? Potential high economic growth regions in Africa remain inaccessible to many investors due to conflict, yet big corporations manage to work in conflict zones through the protection provided by private security companies. Corporate environment crimes are on the increase on the continent. The most common crimes are associated with pollution, non-compliance with precautionary principles of environmental law implementation and hazardous dumping.
