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In 2017 it will be Australia?s turn to chair the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP), an international organisation set up to regulate the trade in diamonds. Diamonds are a symbol of love, purchased to celebrate marriage, and it is therefore deeply ironic that the diamond trade has become linked with warfare and human rights violations committed in African producer countries such as Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and, more recently, Zimbabwe and Angola. In their quest for diamonds, or by using diamonds to purchase weapons, armed groups in these countries have engaged in recruiting child soldiers, amputating limbs, and committing rape and murder. In response to the problem, the international community, non-governmental organisations and key industry players such as De Beers combined forces to create the Kimberley Process in 2002. The KP uses an export certificate system to distinguish the legitimate rough diamond trade from so-called ?blood diamonds?, which are also known as ?conflict diamonds?. This book considers the extent to which the KP, supported by other agencies at the international and national levels, has been effective in achieving its mandate. In

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Author

Nigel Davidson

Publisher

ANU Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760460259

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, True Crime, Crime