Mark Taylor
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Mark Taylor
Forsker II, bistilling

    Academic background:

    Dr. Philos, International Law, University of Oslo


Area of work:

Business and human rights, sustainability in global value chains, corporate accountability, war economies, peacebuilding, Middle East.


Research areas:

Responsible business | Middle East and North Africa | Peacebuilding and stabilisation | Decent Work | Violence and Conflict

A full list of recent publications


Mark Taylor
+47 97583650
Inger Lise Skog Hansen, Mark B. Taylor and Arne Backer Grønningsæter
Business, development and inclusion of persons with disabilities
Fafo-paper 2016:24
Nettutgave
Mark B. Taylor
Kartlegging og avviksanalyse: Statens plikt til å beskytte
Kartlegging og avviksanalyse som grunnlag for nasjonal handlingsplan for oppfølging av FNs Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
Fafo-notat 2013:12
Nettutgave
Mark B. Taylor, Robert C. Thompson and Anita Ramasastry
Overcoming Obstacles to Justice
Improving Access to Judicial Remedies for Business Involvement in Grave Human Rights Abuses
Fafo-report 2010:21

Nettutgave

Anita Ramasastry and Robert C. Thompson
Commerce, Crime and Conflict
Legal Remedies for Private Sector Liability for Grave Breaches of International Law. A Survey of Sixteen Countries. Executive Summary
Fafo-report 536

Nettutgave

Mark B. Taylor and Kathleen M. Jennings
In Search of Strategy
An Agenda for Applied Research on Transitions from Conflict
Fafo-report 480

Nettutgave

Mark Taylor (ed.), Josefine Aaser, Anne Huser, Kathleen Jennings
Economies of Conflict
The Next Generation of Policy Responses. Report of the expert consultation on conflict economies and development. Oslo, 4 November 2003
Fafo-report 436

Nettutgave

Leiv Lunde and Mark Taylor, with Anne Huser
Commerce or Crime?
Regulating Economies of Conflict
Fafo-rapport 424

Web edition

Mark Taylor, Anne Huser
Security, Development and Economies of Conflict: Problems and Responses
Fafo-paper 2003:17

Web edition

Peace Implementation Network
Swords for Ploughshares
Report of the Forum on the policies and practices of small arms and light weapons disarmament in post-conflict transitions. Peace Implementation Network, Programme for International Co-operation, Conflict Resolution
Fafo-report 332

Web edition

Mark B. Taylor & Maja van der Velden

Resistance to Regulation: Failing Sustainability in Product Lifecycles , 2019
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Karin Buhmann, Mark B. Taylor & Elisa Giuliani

Competition & Change. Special issue on Business and Human Rights in Global Value Chains , 2019
Read more at SAGE

Mark B. Taylor

Due Diligence: A Compliance Standard for European Companies

European Company Law , 2014

Mark Taylor

The Ruggie Framework

Etikk i praksis , 2011

Robert Thomspon, Anita Ramasastry

Translating Unocal , 2009

Other publications

Mark B. Taylor

War Economies and International Law , 2021

Mads Harlem & Mark Taylor

Også næringslivet skal respektere reglene om beskyttelse av sivile i krig

Bistandsaktuelt , 2020
Bistandsaktuelt

Maja van der Velden & Mark B. Taylor

Sustainability Hotspots Analysis of the Mobile Phone Lifecycle , 2017
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Tone Sommerfelt, Mark B. Taylor

The big dilemma of small soldiers: Recruiting children to the war in Syria

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre , 2015

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A Rock in Hard Places: Conflict Zones and the Illicit Trade in Uranium , 2014

Mark Taylor

Human Rights Due Diligence 2013 , 2013

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Conflict Financing: what's wrong with war economies? , 2013

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Conflict trade: regulating illicit flows to and from war , 2013

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Economies of Violence and Peacebuilding , 2012

Olivier de Schutter, Anita Ramasastry, Mark B. Taylor and Robert C. Thompson

Human Rights Due Diligence 2012 , 2012

John Karlsrud, Mark Taylor, Raymond Apthorpe, Henriette Lunde & Laura Elaine Mitchell

Evaluating Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building Activities , 2005

Mark Taylor

Take the Gun out of Natural Resource Extraction , 2014

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Beyond Beyond Compliance
How Human Rights is Transforming CSR , 2013

I: Atle Midtun (ed.) CSR and Beyond – A Nordic Perspective

Mark Taylor

Regulating Illicit Flows to and From Wars , 2013 Companies in Conflict Situations

Business as an actor for development

The Users of Force - Middle East

Peace Implementation Review

Global Governance of Conflict Trade

Complicity and Liability - DFAIT

Complicity and Liability - UD

Economies of Conflict

Business and Human Rights: From Principles to State Practice

Assessing the Impacts of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights

Follow the Money: capital flows, cross-border networks, natural resource extraction and stolen asset recovery

UNOPS Jordan

Service Delivery in the Middle East

Fortis Human Rights Review

Business and Conflict

Support Governance in Haiti

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Contact:
+47 22 08 86 00
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Management

Managing director:
Tone Fløtten
Heads of research
Sissel Trygstad and Hanne Cecilie Kavli
Research directors:
Marte Rønning, Terje Olsen  Åge Arild Tiltnes and  Anna Hagen Tønder
Head of administration:
Thomas Åker-Furre
Head of Information Office:
Stein Roar Fredriksen
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