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Peace Business - Humans and Nature Above Markets and Capital (Peace, Development, Environment, 6)
Peace Business Humans and Nature Above Markets and Capital - Peace, Development, Environment, 6 Author:Johan Galtung, Fred Dubee, Jack Santa Barbara This book, jointly authored by Jack Santa Barbara, Fred Dubee and Johan Galtung, explores how business can be run so as to serve peace. This addresses the areas where business can contribute to negative peace by reducing direct, structural and cultural violence (where it is often involved) and to positive peace by meeting basic needs of all huma... more »ns, building equitable relations among them individually and as groups, and assuring a low ecological footprint. A tall bill to meet, reorienting the priorities of production, how companies doing business are organized, and how peace-building deals are made.
JOHAN GALTUNG
Johan Galtung, born 1930 in Oslo, Norway, lives in Spain, France, Japan and the USA, and is mainly engaged in mediation and research. He founded TRANSCEND: A Network for Peace and Development in 1993, and was the first rector of the Transcend Peace University 2003 - 2007 (see www.transcend.org/tpu).
JACK SANTA BARBARA
Jack Santa Barbara was born 1942 in Connecticut, USA. Following an academic and research career, he founded what became Canada's largest behavioral health company in 1981. From 2000-2007 he taught Sustainable Business in McMaster's MBA program and later Peace Business at the TRANSCEND Peace University. He is now developing a sustainable village based on permaculture principles in New Zealand.
FRED DUBEE
Frederick C. Dubee, born 1942 in Bourlamaque, Canada, was an automotive industry executive in North and South America, Europe and Asia for three decades. In 2000 he joined the United Nations Global Compact Office. He is Executive Director, International, Global Management Education Institute, Shanghai University, teaches at the European Peace, Shanghai and Sydney Universities and is Honorary Professor, Beijing Genomics Institute.« less