Conflict in the Mining Industry in Argentina
This project is split into two parts:
Part 1: Social resistance and the role of enterprises and stakeholders in the prevention and sustainable resolution of conflicts.
Part 2: Ethics, Integrity, managerial moral judgement and discourse coalitions.
Project Leaders:
Dr Diego Vazquez, Dr Natalia Yakoleva and Prof. Diana Mutti ( UBA, Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Other Researchers:
1) Social resistance and the role of enterprises and stakeholders
Prof. Max Munday, Evelyn Nava-Fischer , Martín H. Di Marco ( UBA, Universidad de Buenos Aires), Dr. Frank Nyame ( University of Legon, Ghana) 2 Stage, Dr. Vicente Mendez( UBA, Universidad de Buenos Aires) 2 Stage
2. Ethics, Integrity, Managerial Moral Judgement and Discourse Coalitions
Dr. Laura Spence ( Royal Holloway, University of London),Dr. Alicia Sanguinetti ( UBA, Universidad de Buenos Aires) 2 Stage, Tamara Manograso ( UBA, Universidad de Buenos Aires) 2 Stage
Project outline
To provide an understanding of the deep causes of social resistance from communities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) towards the gold mining industry in Argentina. The research aims to identify conflicts, looking at cognitive, value-based and ideological gaps between the various stakeholders involved.
The project also aims to define trends and future conflict scenarios. It will provide normative guidelines for government regulation regulations and companies’ behaviour in the framework of sustainable development and delineate a model for the partial resolution of the present conflicts through consensus making mechanisms and stakeholder’s engagement.
Given the similarity of gold mining conflicts across developing countries we expect the model to be useful as general management tool rather than limited to the Argentinean context.
