sector comes more sharply into focus, and it’s propensity to create enabling or disabling environments for enterprise. Traditionally in peacebuilding, few roles have been envisaged for the private outside of corporate social responsibility investments. Recognising the value that the private sector can add, development institutions are increasingly referencing the private sector as relevant if not indispensable partners in peacebuilding and conflict resolution as well as post conflict recovery.296 The AU sees the utility of working with the private sector as reflected in the AU Regional Strategy for the Stabilization, Recovery & Resilience of the Boko Haram affected Areas of the Lake Chad Basin Region. In this strategy the AU identifies the private sector as having a role in vocational training curricula, providing apprenticeships and work placements, and value-chain development. The UN too envisages a role not only for CSOs but private sector in post conflict peacebuilding, particularly in the employment sector and corporate social responsibility initiatives to reduce the incidence of violence by working with community members.297 Under the NEPAD African Post Conflict reconstruction Framework, the private sector is strategic for Africa’s vison for economic development. Not only can the private sector promote local entrepreneurship and good corporate citizenship, but it can also develop important public private partnerships. The private sector is an important partner in creating employment and revitalising struggling economies. Motivated by self-interest and profit, corporations can engage in peacebuilding activities as a way of creating an enabling and secure legal and physical environment for business, contributing to the rule of law.298 A mutually reinforcing relationship exists between the business community and peacebuilding as successfully businesses require peace and security and can create a demand for it, and peacebuilding creates enabling conditions for business.299 296 296 Ford J ‘Engaging the private sector in post-conflict recovery: Perspectives for SADPA’ ISS paper 269, 2014 Gatter K ‘How the Private Sector Helped Make Tijuana Safe Again’. 12 November 2015. Available at https://medium.com/@CIPE/how-the-private-sector-helped-make-tijuana-safe-again-fb86c429a205 297 Peacebuilding in the aftermath of conflict - Report of the Secretary-General A/67/499*–S/2012/746* 8 October 2012 298 Gerson, A. 'Peace-building: The Private Sector's Role', The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 95 2001 299 Ford J ‘Engaging the private sector in post-conflict recovery: Perspectives for SADPA’ ISS paper 269, 2014 296 97