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| Name | Killing Kimberley? Conflict Diamonds and Paper Tigers |
| Author(s) | Partnership Africa Canada |
| Editor | Ian Smillie |
| Year | 2006 |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Web Location | http://www.pacweb.org/Documents/diamonds_KP/16_thelostworld_Eng-Nov2006.pdf |
| Keywords | Venezuela diamond industry, conflict diamonds, Kimberley Process certification scheme (KPCS) |
| Areas of Interest | Corruption; Economic; Resource Extraction |
| Citation | Partnership Africa Canada. 2006. Killing Kimberley? Conflict Diamonds and Paper Tigers. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada. |
| Summary | “Blood Diamond”, a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Honsou and Jennifer Connelly, will not be released until December, but it will be a major focus of attention at the Kimberley Process diamond |
| Abstract / Description | "Blood Diamond", a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Honsou and Jennifer Connelly, will not be released until December, but it will be a major focus of attention at the Kimberley Process diamond control annual meeting in Botswana, November 6-9. The film, set in Sierra Leone during the 1990s, shows how rebel forces used diamonds to pay for one of Africa's most brutal wars.
It is not the DiCaprio film that should be concerning the diamond industry and the governments that benefit from diamonds, however, it is the weak controls they have put in place to deal with the reality of conflict diamonds. That is the message in Partnership Africa Canada's new report, Killing Kimberley? Conflict Diamonds and Paper Tigers. |
| Publisher/Organization | Partnership Africa Canada |
| Cluster Library | Ethics of Resource Extraction |
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