Business Plays a Critical Role in Advancing Peace

  Melissa Powell, Head of Business for Peace at the UN Global Compact, tells Corporate Citizenship Briefing that business has ingrained reasons to help advance peace, and highlights how a growing group of companies are working toward creating stability in conflict-areas.   Read the article on Corporate Citizenship Briefing.   About the UN Global Compact The United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues. The UN Global Compact is a leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible corporate policies and practices. Launched in 2000, it is the world’s largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative, with over 12,000 signatories from business and key stakeholder groups based in 145 countries. www.unglobalcompact.org