Managing Risk and Building Trust: The Challenge of implementing the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
Article from: TDM 1 (2004), in Human Rights
Summary
The Voluntary Principles offer 'rules of engagement' for extractive sector company relationships with security forces, one of the central sets of issues to have emerged in the debate over the roles and responsibilities of business in zones of conflict. I will argue that while recent events are testing the value of the Voluntary Principles, there are concrete steps that companies, NGOs and the convening governments can take to make these 'rules of engagement' more useful and credible- and help business become a force for peace.