Business and Peace-Building

5  Paradigm of Positive Peace

This chapter drills down to a more granular level on how the paradigm of Peace—especially Positive Peace—functions conceptually. Positive peace is a distinct concept indicating that violence of any kind is not used to achieve or maintain it. Three other dominant paradigms are also explored: Economic, Risk and Human Rights. Each of these paradigms already operates as a decision-making framework when MNEs and their employees make social and environmental business decisions. Although they are useful in making certain business decisions (e.g., health and safety, worker well-being, HR practices), they limit and preclude certain types of lateral thinking leading to innovative solutions to community-based social and environmental ...