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4. What is being done to curtail the spread “blood” diamonds? What difficulties face this process? in 2003, the government-run Kimberley Process scheme was launched to stop the trade in conflict diamonds. Over seventy governments taking part in the process are required to certify that diamond shipments through their countries are conflict-free, and they are required to set up diamond control systems to ensure this is true. The diamond industry agreed to police itself to support the Kimberley Process by tracking diamonds from mines all the way to retail stores…
Throughout the decades there has been many hard times, conflicts over disagreement, fighting and competition. There has been a huge clash over the use of diamonds and in fact how they are produced, and where they were originated. There has always been a major demand for diamonds…
Significant historical events of late 20th cent to their impact on De Beers Diamond monopoly…
Bibliography: Campbell, Greg. Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most Precious Stones. New York: Westview Press, 2003.…
the diamonds they acquire seem rare and so they can stay at a high price. The economic issue…
Conflict free diamonds are available and it is up to the customer to ensure they are not supporting the struggle which still continues in Africa today. It starts with the consumer, we as a collective world have the power to dictate how it operates. The film ended with text fading onto the screen saying the most obvious freewill statement which I believe we as a collective society sometimes neglect. “It is up to the consumer to insist that a diamond is conflict-free.” There are many problems within Africa’s borders, giving them weapons to kill each other for the purpose of individual benefit is immoral.…
Against my better judgment, my wife and I attended another one of Hollywood 's attempts to coerce public opinion on their latest target. Blood Diamonds, the saga surrounding the moral challenge of the international gem trade. Based in Sierra Leone, Africa, in 1999, it depicts the story of two mercenaries fighting to locate a rare blood diamond the size of a golf ball. The local region, engulfed in a civil war between the government and the RUF (Revolutionary United Front), is a backdrop for indiscriminate torture and murder, all propagated by the illegal diamond market. This is the premise for the movie.…
The problem of conflict diamonds was first made public thanks to the efforts of several international NGOs, who bluntly denounced the links between the diamond trade and the wars in the African continent. NGOs played a major role in denouncing the trade of blood diamonds and ultimately demanding a response from those responsible. Notable about this campaign was its success in uniting unofficial diplomatic channels with a number of official as well as unofficial networks and connections to achieve its goal, thus employing what has been termed as multi-track diplomacy'(Grant & Taylor : 2004, 386).…
Although South Africa produces the most diamonds, many of them are for industrial and technological uses. Currently, Canada is the third top producer of diamonds for rings behind Botswana and Russia. One of the great things about this mine is they have gone a long way towards making Canada 's indigenous people, Indians and Eskimos, quite wealthy. The mines provide high-income jobs with an average salary of $63,000. These are permanent jobs that are currently handled by aboriginal peoples such as the Dene First Nation. When you buy Canadian diamonds you are also supporting an indigenous culture (Bryson Burke,…
Blood diamonds are diamonds that have had powerful effects on the world. A blood diamonds is the slang term for a conflict diamond. Conflict diamonds are traded illegally, they are traded to cause conflict in war-torn areas. Once blood diamonds have been traded into these war-torn areas, the diamonds automatically start having a huge role in the conflict between the areas. In this essay I would like to tell you about some important things about blood diamonds. These important things consist of why they are important to the world, the attention grabber to the world that made everyone curious, and the torture and violence that have came out of these conflict diamonds. Also, other important things I want to talk about are who wants these diamonds,…
I’m sure, more accurately, I am positive that our brothers and sisters involved in the conflict “blood” diamond problem in Africa do not obey any figure of authority or power out of respect, but more so, out of pure fear. Fear that your hands will get severed off, or fear that your wife and sister will get raped by the R.U.F that occupy the uncontrolled lands. Australia, Canada, Namibia, South Africa, and Tanzania are the countries that have been able to invest the revenue from diamonds into the development of infrastructure, schools and hospitals for the good of the communities where diamonds are found. Diamond-rich Botswana has used its mines, which are partially owned by the state, to fund infrastructure, education and health care, as well as set aside a rainy-day fund of nearly $7 billion. But Botswana has something essential that other African countries do not: a government known for…
uring the following two weeks, attention turned to larger, legal international diamond miners and sellers, in particular the leading firm in the diamond industry, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. of South Africa. Founded in the late nineteenth century by the notorious British colonialist Cecil Rhodes, De Beers developed a virtual lock on the international diamond market in the twentieth century. This it did in part by establishing control at all levels, from mining to distribution to pricing. It also managed its image through clever public relations and advertising, most notably the "A Diamond Is Forever" ad campaign, whichAdvertising Age in 2000 chose as the advertising slogan of the century.…
Choose one every day and one literary text. Using at least two analytical techniques from E301, analyze and compare your two texts in terms of their creativity and literariness, drawing on material from both parts of the module.…
One of the world’s top 20 diamonds ever found, weighing 709 carats, is protected in a bank in Sierra Leone. Wherever Sierra Leone was rich in resources, there were people who fought to take control of the wealth. On March 21 1991, the Revolutionary United Front(RUF), a rebel that fought a in the eleven year old war, intruded Sierra Leone and attempted to overthrow the government. In the first year of this mournful war, the RUF controlled parts of the country, such as, the eastern and southern parts, due to the fact those areas were rich in diamonds. This…
* Diamond is the strongest natural mineral known by a man. It is a crystalline form of carbon.…