This practice note is intended to provide general but practical insight into four key areas of activity, or business functions, through which a company can align with...the Global Compact’s Ten Principles...First, we seek to demonstrate how the guidance may be useful in managing risk in zones of actual or potential conflict, as well as contribute to peacebuilding and stability. As such, this paper aims to identify some of the issues that businesses and investors might face in trying to implement the UN guidance, with a view to promoting further discussion on best practice and some of the more general implementation issues that business and investors could face in a real‐world developing country context. Second, we will begin to ‘test’ the efficacy of the guidance in a real-­‐world context: the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).