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CONFLICT DIAMONDS
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Conflict diamonds alive and well: failing controls and the changing landscape of global diamond economy
/ Ylonen, Aleksi
Ylonen, Aleksi
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2012.
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The issue of conflict diamonds has received little attention since the early 2000s. However, the global checks put in place to restrict conflict diamonds entering the world market are increasingly hampered by both the lack of agreement on what constitutes a conflict diamond and the global diamond economy's shift towards Asia. This article explores the current state of conflict diamonds and the international landscape of ailing efforts aimed at reducing them.
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Conflict Diamonds
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Kimberley Process
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Natural Resources and Wars
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Global Diamond Economy
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Conflict diamonds and the Angolan civil war (1992–2002)
/ Hoekstra, Quint
Hoekstra, Quint
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In the early 1990s several rebel groups turned to natural resource extraction to pay for war. A key form of this is rebel diamond production, commonly referred to as conflict diamonds, which is widely perceived as being highly beneficial to insurgent organisations. Yet in the Angolan Civil War (1992–2002), the use of conflict diamonds by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) resulted in a decisive insurgent defeat. How can this outcome be explained? Offering a nuanced understanding of how conflict diamonds affect civil war, this article shows that although diamonds generated considerable revenue for UNITA, they were not an effective method for them to take on the Angolan government. This was for two reasons: internally, the rebels greatly struggled to convert their diamond proceeds into sufficient goods and services; and externally, it left the group highly vulnerable to international countermeasures in the form of United Nations Security Council sanctions. Natural resource extraction may therefore not be as useful to rebel groups as is frequently believed.
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Insurgency
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Angola
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Conflict Diamonds
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UNITA
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Civil War
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Global governance and conflict diamonds the Kimberley process a
/ Grant, J Andrew; Taylor, Ian
July 2004
Taylor, Ian
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2004.
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Human Security
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Conflict Diamonds
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Kimberley Process
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Governance and Security
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