{
  "url": "https://stakesproject.org/cases/",
  "language": "en",
  "type": "case-index",
  "title": "The seven cases | STAKES",
  "description": "Seven country cases in fragile and conflict-affected settings: Colombia, Lebanon, DR Congo, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Ukraine and Indonesia. Country and sector, with the corporate puzzle in each.",
  "updated": "2026-08-02",
  "project": {
    "name": "STAKES",
    "grant": "353416",
    "funder": "Research Council of Norway",
    "funder_id": "https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005416",
    "host": "Centre for Global Sustainability (GLOBE/SUM), University of Oslo",
    "term": "2025-07-01/2029-06-29"
  },
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "alternates": {
    "en": "https://stakesproject.org/cases/",
    "no": "https://stakesproject.org/no/cases/",
    "es": "https://stakesproject.org/es/cases/"
  },
  "cases": [
    {
      "slug": "colombia",
      "country": "Colombia",
      "sector": "Industrial technology",
      "places": "Bogotá · Meta · Cauca",
      "lead": "Angelika Rettberg",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "research_questions": [
        2,
        4,
        5,
        7
      ],
      "phase": "Fieldwork 2026",
      "headline": "A German industrial group bet on rural electrification after the 2016 accord. Then the cities burned.",
      "summary": "Colombian firms paid farmers to leave coca and hired ex-combatants. Ten years on we ask whether the peace dividend reached anyone outside the project maps.",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/cases/colombia/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "lebanon",
      "country": "Lebanon",
      "sector": "Pharmaceuticals",
      "places": "Beirut · Tripoli · Bekaa",
      "lead": "Jamal Maalouf",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "research_questions": [
        2,
        4,
        6
      ],
      "phase": "Fieldwork 2026",
      "headline": "A French drug company settled a bribery case in 2018. In 2022 it brought in 13,000 cholera vaccines.",
      "summary": "Lebanese firms are woven into the parties and sects that govern where the state does not. This case follows what social repair looks like when a company is buying back trust it spent itself.",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/cases/lebanon/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "dr-congo",
      "country": "DR Congo",
      "sector": "Brewing and beverages",
      "places": "Bukavu · Goma · Kisangani",
      "lead": "Mark van Dorp",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "research_questions": [
        4,
        5,
        7
      ],
      "phase": "Fieldwork 2026",
      "headline": "The brewery kept its trucks moving by paying armed groups. Then it wrote a human rights policy.",
      "summary": "A Dutch parent company's Congolese subsidiary paid illicit taxes to rebel groups for years. We ask whether the policy that followed changed the conflict footprint or only the reporting.",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/cases/dr-congo/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "bangladesh",
      "country": "Bangladesh",
      "sector": "Apparel sourcing",
      "places": "Dhaka · Gazipur · Chattogram",
      "lead": "Harry Van Buren III",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "research_questions": [
        4,
        5,
        6
      ],
      "phase": "Fieldwork 2027",
      "headline": "Thirteen years after Rana Plaza, the buyer says its own subcontractors undercut the wage it promised.",
      "summary": "A Swedish retailer has argued publicly for a living wage inside a sourcing structure that makes the wage unenforceable. The case asks whether one large buyer can move an industry it does not own.",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/cases/bangladesh/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "mozambique",
      "country": "Mozambique",
      "sector": "Liquefied natural gas",
      "places": "Cabo Delgado · Palma · Maputo",
      "lead": "Sarah Cechvala",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "research_questions": [
        4,
        5,
        7
      ],
      "phase": "Fieldwork 2027",
      "headline": "A twenty billion dollar gas project promised jobs to Cabo Delgado. The insurgency arrived first.",
      "summary": "The clearest case in the study of what an unmet corporate promise costs the people who believed it, and of how a company manages the fallout when its presence becomes part of the conflict.",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/cases/mozambique/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ukraine",
      "country": "Ukraine",
      "sector": "Consumer goods",
      "places": "Kyiv · Lviv · Dnipro",
      "lead": "John Katsos",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "research_questions": [
        3,
        4,
        5,
        7
      ],
      "phase": "Fieldwork 2026",
      "headline": "One company, two sides. Twenty million dollars invested in Ukraine, thirty million paid in Russian tax.",
      "summary": "Business ethics scholars once argued that firms present on both sides of a war are the ones best placed to broker peace. Ukraine is where that argument meets a full-scale invasion.",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/cases/ukraine/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "indonesia",
      "country": "Indonesia",
      "sector": "Palm oil",
      "places": "North Sumatra · Riau · Jakarta",
      "lead": "Jason Miklian",
      "work_package": "WP2",
      "research_questions": [
        3,
        4,
        7,
        8
      ],
      "phase": "Fieldwork 2028",
      "headline": "Can a plantation ever be responsible? Sumatra is where the EU deforestation rules meet the EU trade deal.",
      "summary": "A German discount grocer is among Europe's largest buyers of Sumatran palm oil, on a seam where one EU regime restricts imports and EU trade negotiators work to expand them.",
      "url": "https://stakesproject.org/cases/indonesia/"
    }
  ]
}