Businesses have operated in zones of conflict since time immemorial...Some businesses have played a direct role in conflict by providing the means with which wars are fought...The links can expose businesses to the risk of being deemed complicit in grave human rights abuses...Businesses have paid relatively little attention to these problems, partly because prosecutors have not focused on the role of business in conflict until recently, and partly because there is a high threshold of evidence required to prosecute a criminal case of complicity...To ensure that businesses do not contribute to genocide and that they aid in the peace process, it is necessary to determine clear rules for what they should not do, what they must do, and what they can do...Non‑Government Organizations (NGOs) began researching corporate conduct in the mid 1990s in order to lobby for binding accountability mechanisms...Statoil has been praised for its operations in the Niger Delta.