AGENDA

Peace Through Commerce: Partnerships as a New Paradigm
November 12-14, 2006

Sunday, November 12

5:00 pm - Opening Reception – Press Box, Notre Dame Stadium

6:00 pm - Dinner – Press Box, Notre Dame Stadium
Invocation: Imam Dr. A. Rashied Omar, Program Coordinator,
Joan B. Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame

7:30 pm - Music, Notre Dame Glee Club

Followed by
-Welcome: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus,
University of Notre Dame
-Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Rev. Oliver Williams, C.S.C., Director,
Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business, University of
Notre Dame
-Keynote Speaker: Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo American PLC, London

Continuing Discussion
-Notre Dame Room: Morris Inn



Monday, November 13

8:00 am - Continental Breakfast – The Center for Continuing Education (CCE)

9:00 am - Opening Plenary: Overview of the Issues, Auditorium, CCE

Chair: Lee Tavis, Director, Program on Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns, University of Notre Dame

• Business: Klaus Leisinger, President and CEO, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
Stretching the Limits of Corporate Responsibility

• NGO: Mary Anderson, Executive Director, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
False Promises and Premises? The Challenge of Peacebuilding for Corporations

• Academic: Timothy Fort, The Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics, The George Washington University School of Business
Moral Maturity, Peace Through Commerce, and the Partnership Dimension

10:15 am - Break

10:30 am - CONCURRENT SESSIONS

I. Local Entrepreneurship, Room 100, CCE
Chair: Dr. Amy Marks, Baha’i International Community, Israel

Progress toward development and, thus, to peace is very much dependent upon the attitudes and efficiency of local entrepreneurs. These grassroots efforts create an economy that fits the local circumstances. Effective entrepreneurship is especially critical in agriculture where globalization and developed-country subsidies are exerting intensive pressure on small producers. Empowering local entrepreneurs is the theme of this session.

• Francisco Ilunga de Almeida and Ofélia Eugenio, Angola Enterprise Program. They will discuss a public-private partnership between the UNDP (the United Nations Development Program), the Chevron Corporation and the government of Angola. Public-Private Partnership for Enterprise Development: The Case of the Angola Enterprise Program

• Bruce McNamer, President, TechnoServe
Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Create Hope and
Economic Activity in the Developing World: Cases from Tanzania

• John Bee, Director, Public Affairs, Nestlé, S.A. and Professor Lisa Newton, Fairfield University. They will discuss projects with a Colombian Dairy, Pakistani Female Extension Workers, and the Nigerian broadcast sponsorship partnership with the NGO Search for Common Ground that provides a conflict-resolving role modeling for Nigerians.
Using the Food Chain to Create Peace

II. Divesting or Investing in Peace, Auditorium, CCE
Chair: Father Peter-John Pearson, Liaison Officer to the South African Parliament for the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference

Since extractive companies do not have the range of locational choice available to the manufacturing or service enterprise, they frequently operate in difficult environments—often remote, often with conflict. Enhancing the social environment can be necessary as a means of avoiding operationally costly divestment. Often initiated by the multinational enterprise drawing on external expertise and resources, contributing to local societies is sometimes best accomplished by a partnership among the enterprise, nongovernmental organizations, and governments. This theme is explored here.

• David Lowry, Director, International Center for Corporate Accountability. (Retired from Freeport McMoran). He will speak from his experience in Papua New Guinea.
Extractives, Economic Development, Codes of Conduct and Audits: Creating Peace through Carefully Thought-out Commerce

• Christian Roy, Extractive Industries Initiative (EII), PACT Congo. Pact is an NGO dedicated to forging linkages among government, business and citizen sectors to achieve social, economic and
environmental justice.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Extractive Industries’ Alliance: Can Responsible Mining Promote Sustainable Social Development and Better Governance in a Fragile State?

• Alexandra Guáqueta, and Luis F. de Angulo, Fundación Ideas para la Paz.
Introducing a Conflict-sensitive Risk and Impact Assessments Tool to Extractive Industry Companies: Experiences from Colombia. Cases of Occidental Petroleum and BP

• Ian Gary, Policy Advisor for Extractive Industries, Oxfam America
He will address corruption and transparency in the extractive
Industries.
Multistakeholder Efforts in the Extractive Industries

12:00 pm - Lunch – Lower Dining Room, CCE
Remarks: Christian Much, German Foreign Ministry, Head of Task
Force Global Issues, Berlin
Investing in Peace

2:00 pm - CONCURRENT SESSIONS:

III. The Role of Business in Societies with Conflict, Auditorium, CCE
Chair: Melissa Powell, Project Manager, United Nations Global Compact

In conflict areas, the business sector can either contribute to the conflict or to its amelioration. To build peace, enterprise management must contribute its skills as well as physical resources. This is often best accomplished in partnership with nongovernmental enterprises, for these enterprises are anchored in the local communities with close linkages to the various actors. This session will focus on these issues.

• Donal O’Neill, Lansdowne Consulting (Retired from Shell Oil)
Impact Assessment, Transparency and Accountability – Three Keys to Building Sustainable Partnership between Business and its Stakeholders

• Patricia Wright, Vice President of External Affairs, BP

• Daniel Saurez, Peace Group of Bogota
Business Leader’s Forum Colombia
The Role of Local Businesses in Peacebuilding: The Case of the Colombia Business Leaders Peace Group

• Brigitte Scherrer, Project Manager, Business Humanitarium Forum
Producing Generic Medicines in Afghanistan: Opportunities and Challenges of a Multi-stakeholder Partnership

IV. Community Relations, Room 100, CCE
Chair: Father Peter-John Pearson

Corporations are given the license to operate from national or state governments and social space from local communities. The local business units of a multinational corporation or a local business are each part of the community—nested within the local society. Global programs undertaken by the multinational are often most effective when the needs of local stakeholders are addressed. This session will explore some examples.

• Ed Potter, Director, Global Labor Relations and Workplace Accountability, Afzaal Malik, Director, Global Stakeholder Relations, and Pablo Largacha, Director of Public Relations for Columbia, The Coca-Cola Company
Labor Unions in Colombia

• Stanley Litow, Vice President, Corporate Community Relations and President, IBM International Foundation. Technology Innovation to Address Global Social and Education Issues

• Helen Macdonald, Director, Community Relations and Social Development, Newmont Mining Corporation
Human Rights and Conflict Management in Newmont: A Systems Approach to Implementing Human Rights

• Bunmi Oni, Cadbury Nigeria Plc

3:30 pm - Break

4:00 pm - CONCURRENT SESSIONS:

V. Peace Through Health: Some Contributions, Room 100, CCE
Chair: Dr. Amy Marks

Improving health is a contribution to peace. The multinational pharmaceutical brings medicines to the effort. They as well as other multinationals bring management skills and resources not available to local communities. None of these makes a difference, however, until they reach the patient. Delivery is often the role of the NGO and local government. These themes are addressed in this session.

• Tom Costa, Vice President, International Policy and Government Affairs, Bristol-Myers Squibb
“Secure the Future”: Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa

• Mark Holloway, Manager Corporate Outreach, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Partnership with Unilever and Virgin Airlines for the Treatment and Care of HIV/AIDS

• Dr. Daniel Shungu, Executive Director, United Front Against Riverblindness(UFAR)
Partnerships to Combat Riverblindness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

VI. Outreach Programs, Auditorium, CCE
Chair: Melissa Powell, Project Manager, United Nations Global Compact

Reaching out to underrepresented segments of society is a part of sustainability. Outreach programs are often large and quite distinct from the standard operations of the enterprise. In these cases, the NGO partnership can become a distinct and separate effort. Some of the issues are addressed here.

• Ford Motor Co., Gerald F. Cavanagh, S.J. and Mary Ann Hazen, Professors at University of Detroit Mercy.
Ford Motor Company, Human Rights and Environmental Integrity

• General Electric, Bob Corcoran, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship
The Millennium Village Project: General Electric’s Contribution

• Daniel Malan , KPMG Sustainability Services, South Africa
From Being Apart to Being Partners – a South African Case
Study of Barloworld

• David Wheeler, Dean of Management, Dalhousie University. He will discuss enterprise development in Darfur and Southern Sudan using a participative action research approach.
Conflict Transformation Project: Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods and Grassroots Enterprise Development

5:45 pm - Reception – Atrium, Mendoza College of Business

6:30 pm - Dinner – Atrium, Mendoza College of Business

8:00 pm - AACSB Panel: Peace Through Commerce: Business Education Initiatives
Chair: Georg Kell, Executive Head of the Global Compact Office,
United Nations

• John Fernandes, President and Chief Executive Officer, AACSB
• Jennifer Potter, Managing Director, Initiative for Global Development
• Tim Solso, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cummins, Inc.
• Carolyn Woo, Martin J. Gillen Dean and Ray and Milann Siegfried Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Notre Dame

9:00 pm - Continuing Discussion
--Notre Dame Room: Morris Inn



Tuesday, November 14

8:00 am - Continental Breakfast – The Center for Continuing Education

8:30 am - Panel: Theory and Practice, Auditorium, CCE
Chair: Father Peter John Pearson, Liaison Officer to South Africa Parliament for the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference

• Willi Esterhuyse, University Professor, Institute for Futures Research, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. ( A member of numerous corporate boards).
Black Economic Empowerment and the Deracialisation of the South African Economy: A Case Study.

• John Paul Lederach, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
The Role of Corporate Actors in Peacebuilding Processes: Opportunities and Challenges

• Marilise Smurthwaite, Professor, St. Augustine College, South Africa
The Purpose of the Corporation: A Religious View of Corporate Power

• Doug Cassel, Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Law School, University of Notre Dame
The United Nations and Multinational Corporate Responsibility: Legally Binding Standards or “Principled Pragmatism”?

10:00 am - Break

10:30 am - Plenary Summaries of Concurrent Sessions, Auditorium, CCE
Chairs: Lee Tavis, Founding Director of the Program on Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns; and Hal Culbertson, Associate Director, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

12:15 am - Final Reflections

1:00 pm - Smorgasbord Lunch – The Morris Inn, Private Dining Room