Download or read book Companies in Peace Processes written by Ulrike Joras and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent years. Although the private sector is often associated with sustaining conflicts, companies are also assumed to be self-interested as well as able to support the prevention, settlement and transformation of violent conflicts. This book explores the role of the private business sector during the civil war and the peace process in Guatemala. It examines and analyses the corporate positions during this period, aiming to add to a better understanding on the potentials and limits of integrating private business actors in conflict transformation.