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India's explosive economic growth and emerging power status make it
a key country of interest for policymakers, researchers and
scholars within South Asia and around the world. But while many of
India's threats and conflicts are strategized and discussed
extensively within the confines of security studies, strategic
studies and conventional international relations perspectives, many
less visible challenges are set to impact significantly on India's
potential for economic growth as well as the human security and
livelihoods of hundreds of millions of Indian citizens. Drawing on
extensive research within India, this book looks at some of the
'hidden risks' that India faces, exploring how a broadened scope of
what constitutes 'risk' itself holds value for Indian security
studies practitioners and policymakers. It highlights several human
security risks facing India, including the inability of the world's
largest democracy to deal effectively with widespread poverty and
health issues, resource depletion and environmental mismanagement,
pervasive corruption and institutionalized crime, communal
violence, a protracted Maoist insurgency, and deadlocked peace
processes in the Northeast among others. The book extracts common
themes from these seemingly disparate problems, discussing what
underlying failures allow them to persist and why policymakers
heavily securitize some political issues while ignoring others.
Providing an understanding of how several lesser-studied risks can
pose potential or actual threats to Indian society and its
'emerging power' growth narrative, this book is a useful
contribution to South Asian Studies, International Security Studies
and Global Politics.
India's explosive economic growth and emerging power status make it
a key country of interest for policymakers, researchers and
scholars within South Asia and around the world. But while many of
India's threats and conflicts are strategized and discussed
extensively within the confines of security studies, strategic
studies and conventional international relations perspectives, many
less visible challenges are set to impact significantly on India's
potential for economic growth as well as the human security and
livelihoods of hundreds of millions of Indian citizens. Drawing on
extensive research within India, this book looks at some of the
'hidden risks' that India faces, exploring how a broadened scope of
what constitutes 'risk' itself holds value for Indian security
studies practitioners and policymakers. It highlights several human
security risks facing India, including the inability of the world's
largest democracy to deal effectively with widespread poverty and
health issues, resource depletion and environmental mismanagement,
pervasive corruption and institutionalized crime, communal
violence, a protracted Maoist insurgency, and deadlocked peace
processes in the Northeast among others. The book extracts common
themes from these seemingly disparate problems, discussing what
underlying failures allow them to persist and why policymakers
heavily securitize some political issues while ignoring others.
Providing an understanding of how several lesser-studied risks can
pose potential or actual threats to Indian society and its
'emerging power' growth narrative, this book is a useful
contribution to South Asian Studies, International Security Studies
and Global Politics.
The intersection of business, peace and sustainable development is
becoming an increasingly powerful space, and is already beginning
to show the capability to drive major global change. This book
deciphers how different forms of corporate engagement in the
pursuit of peace and development have different impacts and
outcomes. It looks specifically at how the private sector can
better deliver peace contributions in fragile, violent and conflict
settings and then at the deeper consequences of this agenda upon
businesses, governments, international institutions and not least
the local communities that are presumed to be the beneficiaries of
such actions. It is the first book to compile the
state-of-the-field in one place and is therefore an essential guide
for students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on the
role of business in peace. Without cross-disciplinary engagement,
it is hard to identify where the cutting edge truly lies, and how
to take the topic forward in a more systematic manner. This edited
book brings together thought leaders in the field and pulls
disparate strands together from business ethics, management,
international relations, peace and conflict studies in order to
better understand how businesses can contribute to peacebuilding
and sustainable development. Before businesses take a deeper role
in the most complicated and risky elements of sustainable
development, we need to be able to better explain what works, why
it works, and what effective business efforts for peace and
development mean for the multilateral institutional frameworks.
This book does just that.
The intersection of business, peace and sustainable development is
becoming an increasingly powerful space, and is already beginning
to show the capability to drive major global change. This book
deciphers how different forms of corporate engagement in the
pursuit of peace and development have different impacts and
outcomes. It looks specifically at how the private sector can
better deliver peace contributions in fragile, violent and conflict
settings and then at the deeper consequences of this agenda upon
businesses, governments, international institutions and not least
the local communities that are presumed to be the beneficiaries of
such actions. It is the first book to compile the
state-of-the-field in one place and is therefore an essential guide
for students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on the
role of business in peace. Without cross-disciplinary engagement,
it is hard to identify where the cutting edge truly lies, and how
to take the topic forward in a more systematic manner. This edited
book brings together thought leaders in the field and pulls
disparate strands together from business ethics, management,
international relations, peace and conflict studies in order to
better understand how businesses can contribute to peacebuilding
and sustainable development. Before businesses take a deeper role
in the most complicated and risky elements of sustainable
development, we need to be able to better explain what works, why
it works, and what effective business efforts for peace and
development mean for the multilateral institutional frameworks.
This book does just that.
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