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Conflict diamonds alive and well: failing controls and the changing landscape of global diamond economy / Ylonen, Aleksi

Ylonen, Aleksi	Journal Article
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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 ; Kimberley Process ; Natural Resources and Wars ; Global Diamond Economy

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Diamantine struggle: redefining conflict diamonds in the Kimberley Process / Bruffaerts, Lauren

LAUREN BRUFFAERTS	Article
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Diamonds are forever. But what of the definition of conflict diamonds used by the Kimberley Process (KP)? Despite the fact that civil society has raised attention to the cloudy issue of state-perpetrated diamond-related human rights abuses throughout the past decade, the continued longevity of the central definition around which the Kimberley Process revolves still appears to be a crystal-clear fact. As it turns out, calls to broaden the scope of the conflict diamond definition have not been successful because several discourse manipulations within the KP have had formative effects on other actors' identities and interests. Discourse spacing—the strategic allocation of ‘appropriate’ spaces for certain discourses within a particular institutionalized setting—has been strategically employed in an attempt to place boundaries on the redefinition discourse. By claiming that addressing human rights abuses lies beyond the mandate of the KP, several KP participant states have sought to convince others that discussing redefinition has no place on the KP reform agenda. Discourse timing has also been key, where numerous African states' perceptions of redefinition were influenced by accusations of neo-colonial intent on the part of western KP participant states that stemmed from a sanctions debate that was taking place parallel to the redefinition debate. The article finds that these two occurrences, alongside the KP's consensus-based decision-making structure and several KP participant states' fears about setting a human rights precedent, have obstructed the road to the redefinition of conflict diamonds.

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Civil Society ; Kimberley Process ; Diamantine Struggle ; Redefining Conflict Diamonds

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Global governance and conflict diamonds the Kimberley process a / Grant, J Andrew; Taylor, Ian

July 2004

Taylor, Ian	Journal Article
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2004.

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Human Security ; Conflict Diamonds ; Kimberley Process ; Governance and Security

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