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Nobel Peace Prize: Promoting businessworthy action

Tuesday, 05 January 2016 09:44
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– By giving the peace prize to a quartet including Ms. Ouided Bouchamaoui´s organisation, the committee has emphasised the importance of establishing trustworthy relationships between employer associations, labor unions and the civilian society to create stability, peace and development. Ms. Ouided Bouchamaoui, a business woman and the first female president of the Tunisian employer association, has been a central force in the development of her homeland after the arab spring, says Per L. Saxegaard, Chairman of Business for Peace. Ouided Bouchamaoui is representing the Tunisian employeer association in the Tunisian National Dialogue […]

Honouree Profile: Zahi Khouri

Friday, 29 January 2016 10:33
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Small bottles, big dreams Here’s a question – Where should you go if you want to see the biggest Coke bottle in the world? The Coca Cola Company’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia? Not quite. In fact, the sculpture is found more than 10.350 kilometers away, on the roof of the soft drink giant’s Ramallah headquarters. Impressive though it might be, to see the bottle merely as a symbol of Coca Cola’s international reach would be a mistake. Rather, the bottle should be seen as a super-sized testimony to the success of Mr. Zahi Khouri, the […]

Thank you for being a part of 2015 Oslo Business for Peace Summit!

Thursday, 24 December 2015 16:26
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Dear participants, partners, supporters and audience of the 2015 Oslo Business for Peace Summit. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for your contribution to a truly inspirational and uplifting experience in the name of beeing Businessworthy. Our deepest gratitude and admiration goes out to the Oslo Business for Peace 2015 Honourees. Please check back to our webpage soon, as we will shorty update the page with pictures, videos and reports from the summit and Award Ceremony. In the meantime, to learn more about the 2015 Honourees, and […]

Meet the Winners: Merrill Joseph Fernando

Friday, 25 December 2015 00:58
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When Merrill Joseph Fernando was born in 1930, he was a colonial subject of the British Empire. His homeland, the island of Ceylon, produced rubber, cinnamon, and Ceylon tea. Tea production was under the control of the British who had established large plantations and controlled the process, from planting to packaging to store shelves. Although Fernando had considered law school, he began work in the tea trade. He was among the first group of Ceylonese to go to London to study tea tasting, a profession then dominated by British expatriates. […]

Meet the Winners: Zahi Khouri

Friday, 25 December 2015 00:59
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Zahi Khouri’s peaceful childhood ended abruptly when he was ten years old. Born in Jaffa, Palestine, his family joined thousands of other Palestinians a decade later as they were driven into exile in 1948. The family settled in Lebanon; Khouri pursued his education in Germany and France. After moving to Richmond, Virginia, in 1967, he worked for various multinational corporations in New York City, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. Then in 1993, Oslo Peace Accords were signed. The agreement, brokered by Norway after secret negotiations between Israel and […]

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