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E-book The Lion That Didn't Roar

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To better understand why the NGOs walked out of the meeting on that day, it is necessary to understand the nature of the Kimberley Process, an organisation that was established to tackle the issue of conflict diamonds, also known as blood diamonds. Blood diamonds constitute a segment of the rough diamond trade that is linked to egregious human rights violations in a number of African diamond mining countries.3 These diamonds are known as blood diamonds because of their connection with groups that have used enforced labour, recruited and deployed children as soldiers, murdered and raped civilians, amputated the limbs of their victims, and terrorised civilian populations, often as part of waging civil war. Although diamond-fuelled violence has diminished with the emergence of peace in Angola, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, there are ongoing concerns relating to the war-torn DRC and the Central African Republic.What has garnered recent international attention more than any other blood diamond issue, however, is the violence associated with the discovery of diamonds in the Marange region of Zimbabwe. With civilian casualties in the hundreds, the brutality of the management of the Marange diamond fields by Zimbabwe’s police and armed forces has become well known to the international community. What would appear to be a clear violation of the KP’s mandate, which is to prevent such blood diamonds being traded on the international market, instead attracted a different response from the KP. Rather than excluding these diamonds from the international market and expelling Zimbabwe from the KP, the KP chair controversially acted to mandate the sale of several shipments of these diamonds, despite a lack of consensus within the organisation. Concerned that the core mandate of the KP was being contravened, the NGOs stormed out of the Kinshasa meeting, although they have said that they will remain within the organisation, at least for the moment.4 To put it metaphorically, NGOs were wondering whether the KP lion had lost its roar. The so-called showdown at Kinshasa provides a useful point of reference in seeking to analyse and assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Kimberley Process at this moment of institutional crisis. The challenges facing the Kimberley Process are particularly relevant to an Australian audience, as Australia will take its turn as Chair of the KP in 2017.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

364.96 DAV t

Penerbit

Australia : ANU Press., 2016

Deskripsi Fisik

330 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781760460259

Klasifikasi

364.96

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Historical, Geographic, Person Treatment of Crime

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