Peace as a horizon for responsible and sustainable Corporate action

Abstract: This article explores the possibility of business action as a factor involved in the process of collective construction of peace. To develop this question, it is argued that: for companies to be subjects and agents of peaceful coexistence, they must practice their citizenship status, filiation which, same, must be based on the ethical exigency of their responsibility. In our approach, responsibility has a deep meaning, it is not limited to passing a text in order to verify compliance with a regulation. Companies can be said to be responsible when they fulfill their ethical duty to the citizens employed and the communities where they operate. Given this relational nature of their responsibility, companies should function as entities that generate social equanimity and help build situations of peace. When this happens, business action can be considered as sustainable in a broad sense, that is, its sustainability is based on shared ends that shape the ethical-political sense of a certain community. This is the entrance of the corporation as a political actor, and in this same turn as an actor of peace.