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Business Daily: Corporate Responsibility and Conflict Zones 

04/10/2011

Corporate Responsibility and Conflict Zones 

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Corporate Responsibility and Conflict Zones

The difficult dilemmas of running a business in a conflict zone.

The dilemmas companies face when they operate in conflict zones. How can they ensure local communities benefit from mineral wealth without exacerbating conflict?

Shell has fuelled armed conflict by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to armed militants in Nigeria - or at least that's the allegation. 

The story comes from Platform, a pressure group which monitors the activities of oil companies. Platform claims that the oil giant has been implicated in years of human rights abuses but does the evidence really justify the group's claims?  

Justin Rowlatt interviews Ben Amunwa about what precisely Platform are alleging that Shell has done wrong.  

Shell responds to the claims and Justin Rowlatt discusses how companies can operate responsibly in conflict zone's with Shell's former chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart. Sir Mark is now Vice Chairman of the UN Global Compact: covering the environment, human rights, labour, working conditions and anti-corruption.

Plus, why a banking crisis in South Korea has led to a suicide and forced the country to question its ancient traditions of deference and respect.

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