- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- 1 On the Economics of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention
- 2 “A Crime Without a Name”
- 3 Datasets and Trends of Genocides, Mass Killings, and Other Civilian Atrocities
- 4 The Demography of Genocide
- 5 The Macroeconomic Toll of Genocide and the Sources of Economic Development
- 6 Genocide and Mass Killing Risk and Prevention
- 7 Incentives and Constraints for Mass Killings
- 8 Genocide
- 9 The Microeconomic Causes and Consequences of Genocides and Mass Atrocities
- 10 Development and the Risk of Mass Atrocities
- 11 Who Stays and Who Leaves During Mass Atrocities?
- 12 Media Persuasion, Ethnic Hatred, and Mass Violence
- 13 “For Being Aboriginal”
- 14 Identity and Incentives
- 15 The Economics of Genocide in Rwanda
- 16 Peace and the Killing
- 17 Gender and the Genocidal Economy
- 18 On the Logistics of Violence
- 19 Strategic Atrocities
- 20 From <i>Pax Narcótica</i> to <i>Guerra Pública</i>
- 21 Long-Term Economic Development in the Presence of an Episode of Mass Killing
- 22 Economic Foundations of Religious Killings and Genocide with Special Reference to Pakistan, 1978–2012
- 23 Understanding Civil War Violence through Military Intelligence
- 24 Economic Risk Factors and Predictive Modeling of Genocides and Other Mass Atrocities
- 25 Business in Genocide
- 26 Valuing Lives You Might Save
- 27 Genocides and Other Mass Atrocities
- 28 Local and National Democracy in Political Reconstruction
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Business in Genocide
Business in Genocide
Understanding and Avoiding Complicity
- Chapter:
- (p.591) 25 Business in Genocide
- Source:
- Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Preventions
- Author(s):
Nora M. Stel
Wim Naudé
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
In this chapter we focus on corporate complicity in genocide, providing a critical analysis of the involvement of commercial organizations in genocide based on case study illustrations and a tentative conceptualization. We start out by reviewing the literature to identify why businesses become complicit in genocide and how this complicity is manifested. Subsequently, we reflect on these debates by exploring the specific roles entrepreneurs and businesses have played in three of the most uncontested genocides in contemporary history: the Jewish, Kurdish, and Darfurian genocides. We find that how companies are involved in genocide is relatively well understood, if not always widely publicized, but why they may end up as accomplices to genocide is hardly ever explored from the perspective of these firms and their representatives themselves.
Keywords: genocide, complicity, business, entrepreneurship, human rights
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- 1 On the Economics of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention
- 2 “A Crime Without a Name”
- 3 Datasets and Trends of Genocides, Mass Killings, and Other Civilian Atrocities
- 4 The Demography of Genocide
- 5 The Macroeconomic Toll of Genocide and the Sources of Economic Development
- 6 Genocide and Mass Killing Risk and Prevention
- 7 Incentives and Constraints for Mass Killings
- 8 Genocide
- 9 The Microeconomic Causes and Consequences of Genocides and Mass Atrocities
- 10 Development and the Risk of Mass Atrocities
- 11 Who Stays and Who Leaves During Mass Atrocities?
- 12 Media Persuasion, Ethnic Hatred, and Mass Violence
- 13 “For Being Aboriginal”
- 14 Identity and Incentives
- 15 The Economics of Genocide in Rwanda
- 16 Peace and the Killing
- 17 Gender and the Genocidal Economy
- 18 On the Logistics of Violence
- 19 Strategic Atrocities
- 20 From <i>Pax Narcótica</i> to <i>Guerra Pública</i>
- 21 Long-Term Economic Development in the Presence of an Episode of Mass Killing
- 22 Economic Foundations of Religious Killings and Genocide with Special Reference to Pakistan, 1978–2012
- 23 Understanding Civil War Violence through Military Intelligence
- 24 Economic Risk Factors and Predictive Modeling of Genocides and Other Mass Atrocities
- 25 Business in Genocide
- 26 Valuing Lives You Might Save
- 27 Genocides and Other Mass Atrocities
- 28 Local and National Democracy in Political Reconstruction
- Name Index
- Subject Index
