Publications

Investing in Stability: Conflict Risk, Environmental Challenges, and the Bottom Line - Summary Report (571 KB | 44 pages)

This collection of papers aims to stimulate debate on the interactions between finance and conflict, and to explore opportunities to improve financial institutions' management of these interactions. Concerning itself principally with voluntary actions, this report seeks to identify mechanisms whereby firms could help to reduce the economic drivers and impacts of violence and terrorism, in areas where profitability and social responsibility align.

Published: 2004 | By: UNEP FI / International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Investing in Stability: Conflict Risk, Markets and the Bottom Line - Brochure (1.5 MB | 8 pages)

The project brochure summarises the preliminary attempts to identify linkages between financial institutions' activities and conflict and conflict related risks. The brochure offers suggestions how financial institutions can reduce their exposure to negative linkages with conflict and at the same time contribute proactively to conflict prevention and peace-building.

Published: 2003 | By: UNEP FI / International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Investing in Stability: Conflict Risk, Markets, and the Bottom Line - Workshop Report (London) (285 KB | 7 pages)

The report summarises discussions at the UNEP FI / IISD expert workshop on fiance and conflict on 5 September 2003.

The meeting brought together financial sector actors (banks, asset managers, insurance companies, and export credit agencies (ECAs)), as well as representatives from governments, NGOs, academia and research firms, to discuss the relevance of conflict for the financial sector and the role of financial institutions in conflict prevention and mitigation.

Published: 2003 | By: UNEP FI / International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)