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  Timber, Taylor, soldier, spy: how Liberia’s uncontrolled resource exploitation, Charles Taylor’s manipulation and the re-recruitment of excombatants are threatening regional peace

  Global Witness, 2005

  This paper demonstrates how insufficient reform of Liberia’s diamond and timber industries and failure to adequately control areas rich in natural resources have resulted in their continued exploitation and threat to regional peace and security.
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  Diamonds, foreign aid, and the uncertain prospects for post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This article examines the external and internal dimensions and resources of post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone. Foreign aid represents the bulk of the external sources of support, though its imminent reduction is a significant concern.
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  Under-mining peace: the explosive trade in cassiterite in Eastern DRC

  Global Witness, 2005

  The report investigates the illicit trade in cassiterite (tin ore) which has fuelled conflict in the Eastern parts of the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC).
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  Conflict diamonds and the African resource curse

  African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2003

  By outlining four diamond-fuelled wars in Africa, this chapter brings to light Africa’s resource curse and asks whether Africa really needs its nature.
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  Commerce and conflict: Angola & DiamondWorks

  Country Indicators for Foreign Policy, 2005

  By applying a template for risk assessment to the operations of the Canadian company DiamondWorks in Angola during the 1990’s, this report highlights the complex and dynamic interplay of commerce and conflict.
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  The curse of gold

  Human Rights Watch, 2005

  This report documents human rights abuses linked to efforts to control two key gold mining areas, Mongbwalu (Ituri District) and Durba (Haut Uélé District) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Findings of the report include:competition to control the gold mines and trading routes has spurred the bloody conflict that has gripped this area since the start of the Congolese war in 1998
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  Business and international crimes: assessing the liability of business entities for grave violations of international law

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2004

  This paper summarises the findings of two interrelated studies on the liability of business entities for violations of international law.
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  Commerce or crime?: regulating economies of conflict

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2003

  In the absence of clear regulation to determine what constitutes unacceptable private sector economic activity in war zones, this report presents a framework for the analysis of economic activity where trade and conflict converge.
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  International companies and post-conflict reconstruction: cross-sectoral comparisons

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper assess the role of international companies in post- conflict situations. It begins with a review of the extractive industries, but then broadens the discussion to discuss three other sectors: mobile phones, construction and commercial banks.
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  Caterpillar: the alternative report

  War on Want, 2005

  This is the first in a new series of War on Want alternative company reports.

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