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The Kimberley Process at Ten: Reflections on a Decade of Efforts to End the Trade in Conflict Diamonds

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Rough diamonds are not the only natural resource linked to violent conflict, but they have gained much notoriety through their association with civil wars in Sierra Leone and Angola, among other countries. Although diamonds did not cause these wars, they were a major funding source, allowing the fighting to continue. In the late 1990s, an intense international outcry against these “blood diamonds” led to the creation of an international governance framework to sever the link between the gems and the violence they facilitated.

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  1. University of Namibia, Namibia

    Roman Grynberg (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, Botswana

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Grant, J.A. (2012). The Kimberley Process at Ten: Reflections on a Decade of Efforts to End the Trade in Conflict Diamonds. In: Grynberg, R., Mbayi, L. (eds) The Global Diamond Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137537614_5

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