8 - Instruments of peace
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2010
Summary
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love; where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith, where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy, and all for thy mercy's sake. O divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
(Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi)In 1999, under the leadership of Madeleine Albright, the State Department established the Award for Corporate Excellence. The award continued under Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, proving a bi-partisan dimension. The award is given for the actions of US companies in their work overseas that attends to a variety of economic development, human rights, labor rights, and environmental issues. Such actions, the State Department believes, tend to improve diplomatic relations between the host country and the United States.
One of the 2003 Awards went to Chevron/Texaco for its work in a variety of places and, in particular, Nigeria. This included educational, health, and humanitarian assistance related to equipping riverboats as traveling healthcare clinics. The company also provided airlifts for villagers caught in ethnic and political conflict; the company is also active in Nigeria's HIV/AIDS program.
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- Business, Integrity, and PeaceBeyond Geopolitical and Disciplinary Boundaries, pp. 230 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007