Smillie Diamonds

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8278-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Resources

Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of theworld's largest mining companies, a million and a halfartisanal diggers, more than a million cutters and polishers and ahuge retail jewellery sector. But behind the sparkle of the diamondlies a murkier story, in which rebel armies in Angola, Sierra Leoneand the Congo turned to diamonds to finance their wars. Completelyunregulated, so-called blood diamonds became the perfect tool formoney laundering, tax evasion, drug-running andweapons-trafficking.
Diamonds brings together for the first time all aspects of thediamond industry. In it, Ian Smillie, former UN Security Councilinvestigator and leading figure in the blood diamonds campaign,offers a comprehensive analysis of the history and structure oftoday's diamond trade, the struggle for effective regulationand the challenges ahead. There is, he argues, greaterdiversification and competition than ever before, but thanks to thesuccess of the Kimberley Process, this coveted and prestigious gemnow represents a fragile but renewed opportunity for development insome of the world's poorest nations. This part of the diamondstory has rarely been told.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smillie, Ian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations page vi
Introduction 1
1 The Geology and History of Diamonds 6
2 Supply and Demand - The Business of Diamonds 16
3 Blood Diamonds 43
4 Activism 68
5 Regulation 88
6 Power and Politics 99
7 Development 142
8 Loose Ends 164
Notes 171
Selected readings 180
Index 184

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Smillie currently chairs the Board of the DiamondDevelopment Initiative, a non-governmental organization working toimprove the condition of Africa's 1.5 million artisanaldiamond diggers. He has written extensively on the issue ofconflict diamonds and was directly involved in the negotiationsleading to the creation of the Kimberley Process CertificationScheme.