Peter Utting

Peter is the Deputy Director of UNRISD where he also coordinates research projects on the global financial crisis, corporate social responsibility, business regulation, and the role of civil society actors in governance. He has been responsible for overseeing the preparation of several of the Institute’s flagship reports, including States of Disarray: The Social Effects of Globalization and Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development.

 

Prior to joining UNRISD in 1992 Peter worked for 12 years in Central America on a range of development and environment issues, including the social impact of structural adjustment programmes, deforestation, agrarian reform and food security. Peter has a PhD and other degrees in Sociology and Development Studies. In 2011, he was Visiting Senior Scholar at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Selected publications:

• Business, Politics and Public Policy, (co-editor José Carlos Marques), Palgrave Macmillan, 2010;

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance: Towards Inclusive Development? (co-editor José Carlos Marques), Palgrave Macmillan, 2010;

• “The Changing Coordinates of Trade and Power in Latin America: Implications for Policy Space and Policy Coherence”, by Manuel Mejido, Peter Utting and Gloria Carrión, MBR Programme Paper No. 7, UNRISD, 2010;

• “CSR and Policy Incoherence”. In Macdonald, Kate and Shelley Marshall (eds.), Fair Trade, Corporate Accountability and Beyond: Experiments in Globalizing Justice, Ashgate;, 2010;

• “The Struggle for Corporate Accountability’, Development and Change volume 39, issue 6, November 2008;

• Corporate Accountability and Sustainable Development, (co-editor Jennifer Clapp), Oxford University Press, 2008;

• « CSR and equality. » Third World Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2007;

• Beyond Pragmatism: Appraising UN-Business Partnerships, (co-author Ann Zammit). MBR Programme Paper, No. 1., UNRISD ;

• Reclaiming Development Agendas: Knowledge, Power and International Policy Making, (editor). Palgrave, 2006;

• “Rethinking Business Regulation: From Self-Regulation to Social Control” UNRISD Programme Paper TBS-15, October 2005;

• “Corporate Responsibility and the Movement of Business », in Development in Practice, Volume 15, June 2005;

• “Corporate Responsibility and Labour Issues in China: Reflections on a Beijing Conference” The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Issue 10, 2003;

• “Regulating Business via Multistakeholder Initiatives”. In Jenkins. R., Utting P. and R. Alva (eds.), Voluntary Approaches to Corporate Responsibility: Readings and a Resource Guide. NGLS/UNRISD, 2002.

• “The Global Compact and Civil Society: Averting a Collision Course” Development in Practice, Volume 12, No. 5, November 2002;

• The Greening of Business in Developing Countries: Rhetoric, Reality and Prospects, (editor). Zed Books, 2002;

• « UN-Business Partnerships: Whose Agenda Counts? » Transnational Associations, No.3, 2001;

• « Business Responsibility for Sustainable Development », UNRISD Occasional Paper No. 2, 2000;

• Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development, (co-editor), UNRISD, 2000;

• Forest Policy and Politics in the Philippines, (editor). Ateneo University Press, 2000;

• Discours et réalités des politiques participatives de gestion de l’environnement: Le cas du Sénégal, (co-edited with Ronald Jaubert). UNRISD, 1998;

• Bosques, Sociedad y Poder, Universidad Centroamericana, 1996;

• States of Disarray: The Social Effects of Globalization, (co-editor). UNRISD, 1995.

• Between Hope and Insecurity: The Social Consequences of the Cambodian Peace Process, (editor). UNRISD, 1995;

• « Social and Political Dimensions of Environmental Protection in Central America », Development and Change, Vol.25, No.1, 1994;

• Trees, People and Power: Social Dimensions of Deforestation and Forest Protection in Central America, Earthscan, 1993;

• Economic Reform and Third World Socialism, Macmillan, 1992

2 publications

• Social and Solidarity Economy. Beyond the Fringe.

  Peter Utting, ZED books UK, April 2015

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Is There a New Economy in the Making?

  Occasional Paper 10. Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy

  Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk, Marie-Adélaïde Matheï, UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2014

  UNRISD

One video

• Mr. Peter Utting Asean Leadership Forum 2013, 3rd Day of RIPESS Manila 2013 (Part 1 and 2)

  5th RIPESS International Meeting of SSE, Manila, Philippines, October, 15-18, 2013.

  Peter Utting, October 2013

  RIPESS Intercontinental

A pedagogical tool

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Development : The reader 2014 (ILO Academy)

  Social and Solidarity Economy Academy, 28th July – 1st August 2014, Campinas, Brazil.

  Marcelo Alejandro Vieta, Arildo Mota Lopes, Nancy Néamtan, Leandro Pereira Morais, Augusto Togni de Almeida Abreu,, Roberto Marinho Alves da Silva, Leonardo Pamplona, Peter Utting, Antonella Noya, 2014

  BIT/ILO

3 case studies

• Public policies for Social and Solidarity Economy. Assessing progress in seven countries.

  ILO/ International Labour Of ce. - Geneva: ILO

  Peter Utting, 2017

  BIT/ILO

• Políticas públicas para la economía social y solidaria: hacia un entorno favorable. El caso de Costa Rica

  Peter Utting, Yasi Morales Chacón, 2016

  BIT/ILO

• Políticas públicas para la economía social y solidaria: hacia un entorno favorable. El caso de Nicaragua

  Paper prepared for the ILO SSE Academy, Puebla, Mexico,

  OIT/CIF Amalia Chamorro, Peter Utting, November 2015

  BIT/ILO

7 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Social and Solidarity Economy: Incremental versus Transformative Change

  Working Paper #1 of the Knowledge Hub Working Paper Series

  Peter Utting, April 2018

  UNTFSSE

• Mainstreaming Social and Solidarity Economy: Opportunities and Risks for Policy Change

  A Background Paper

  Peter Utting, 2016

  UNTFSSE

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Beyond the Fringe? Introductory chapter

  Peter Utting, April 2015

  UNRISD

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Is There a New Economy in the Making?

  Occasional Paper 10. Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy

  Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk, Marie-Adélaïde Matheï, September 2014

  UNRISD

• Raising the Visibility of Social and Solidarity Economy in the United Nations System

  Chapter taken from The Reader 2014: “Social and Solidarity Economy — Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Development”, (ITC and ILO)

  Peter Utting, 2014

  UNRISD

• Social and Solidarity Economy: A Pathway to Socially Sustainable Development?

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Peter Utting, May 2013

  UNRISD

  Español

• The Challenge of Political Empowerment

  Think piece UNRISD capacity.org

  Peter Utting, March 2012

  UNRISD

An article

• RIPESS Calls on UN to Promote Social and Solidarity Economy

  Peter Utting, October 2013

  UNRISD