Business actors can contribute to peace processes by influencing the parties, mobilizing the wider community, providing financial or logistical support to the process, acting as experts by bringing knowledge to the process, monitoring the implementation of the peace agreement, and exploring ways to create jobs. Business actors can promote peace or exacerbate war...The challenge for a mediator is to recognize and seize appropriate opportunities to engage them...Mediators may differentiate between: Traditional domestic business actors...New domestic business actors...International business actors with a stake inside the conflict country...International business actors with a stake outside the conflict country...