Entrepreneurship is the dominant form of enterprise in conflict-affected settings, yet little is known about the role of entrepreneurship in peacebuilding. In response, this article undertakes a review of entrepreneurship in conflict-affected regions to integrate research from business and management with research from political science, international relations, and parallel domains. Three views of entrepreneurship emerge—the destructive view, economic view, and social cohesion view—showing how entrepreneurship can concurrently create conflict but also potentially generate peace. The article identifies new avenues for pro-peace entrepreneurship: namely, through personal transformation, social contributions, inclusive interactions, conflict trigger removal, intergroup policy persuasion, and acting as legal champions. This article also discusses several pathways forward for business-for-peace research alongside additional implications for the deployment of business-based support programs in conflict settings.

在受冲突影响的环境中，企业家精神是企业的主要形式，但人们对企业家精神在建设和平中的作用知之甚少。作为回应，本文对受冲突影响地区的企业家精神进行了回顾，以将商业和管理研究与政治学、国际关系和平行领域的研究相结合。出现了三种关于企业家精神的观点——破坏性观点、经济观点和社会凝聚力观点——展示了企业家精神如何同时产生冲突，但也可能产生和平。文章确定了支持和平创业的新途径：即通过个人转型、社会贡献、包容性互动、冲突触发消除、群体间政策说服和充当法律拥护者。