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Business for Peace (BfP) is a non-profit foundation based in Oslo, Norway. Each year, the foundation names up to seven Honourees who receive the Oslo Business for Peace Award, in recognition of their individual and outstanding businessworthy contribution to the building of trust, stability and peace. The Honourees are selected by an independent committee composed of winners of either the Nobel Peace Prize or Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Foundation works worldwide to promote a better understanding of how ethical and responsible business can contribute to building trust, stability and peace. Each year, the foundation arranges the Oslo Business for Peace Summit, which concludes with the presentation of the award to that year's Honourees. ==Background== Companies are increasingly seen to be prospering at the expense of the broader community, resulting in an adversarial relationship between business and society. The Business for Peace Foundation was established to inspire business leaders and businesses to reconnect with society, to the mutual benefit of both. The Foundation works to demonstrate that business can be a force of mutual good, able to contribute significantly to the building of trust, stability and peace. The foundation promotes the concept of “being businessworthy”, seeking to raise business practices from short-term win-lose dynamics to fulfilling longer-term business aims. The foundation draws inspiration from the dictum: Adam Smith advocated that a business should advance the prosperity and well-being of the communities where it was active. Subsequently, Smith's invisible hand has been used to defend laissez-faire economics that stand in contrast to the actual business philosophy he promoted in his seminal works ''The Wealth of Nations'' and ''Theory of Moral Sentiments''. The award committee of the Business for Peace Foundation selects Honourees who each have demonstrated that it is possible for a business to enter into partnership with society, while remaining profitable and capable of longer-term growth. The goal of the foundation is to provide its Honourees with a platform from which to share their business wisdom with the world, hoping to inspire other business leaders to emulate their examples. Kofi A. Annan has endorsed the efforts of the foundation, stating that ''"It is important to inspire and encourage businesspersons to be conscious of the role they can play as individuals to foster stability and peace. I think the idea behind the Oslo Business for Peace Award, and the potential impact it may have, is inspiring"''.〔In letter of endorsement to the foundation〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Business for Peace Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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