8 Conclusion
8.1 Review
The primary question that drove the research underpinning this book is: how useful it is to apply the concept of positive peace, as a paradigm, in the natural resources context? The answer to this question reframes natural resources company-community conflict. Instead of NRCs focusing on a wide range of risks and avoiding negative outcomes, this book suggests there is merit to also considering natural resources-linked conflict in terms of (1) the emerging literature on business and peace and (2) peace and conflict theory. First, the literature on business and peace has not sufficiently engaged NRCs as having potential to contribute towards societal conditions of positive peace other than in war-affected contexts. Second, ...
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