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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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  Implementing the Kimberley Process 5 years on: how effective is the Kimberley Process and what more needs to be done?

  Global Witness, 2005

  This briefing document reflects on some of the accomplishments of the Kimberley Process while highlighting that much more work remains to be done to ensure that it is effectively implemented and strengthened to prevent diamonds from ever again fuelling conflict.The major accomplishments as identified by the paper include:there are a total of 67 countries, including those represented by
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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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  Islamic terrorism in the Sahel: fact or fiction?

  International Crisis Group, 2005

  This paper looks at Islamist activity in the four Sahelian countries of Mali, Niger, Chad and Mauritania.
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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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  Oil and water in Sudan

  African Centre for Technology Studies, 2004

  Sudan, a nation of 36 million people wracked by conflict for 34 of the last 45 years, has generated some four million displaced people during the course of its war. It is estimated that over two million Sudanese people have died as a result of fighting and related starvation and disease. Most conventional analyses have focussed on the identity-based dichotomies to explain the conflict.
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  Rise of religious parties in Pakistan: causes and prospects

  Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003

  In the October 2002 general elections, religious parties and two Provincial Assemblie (those of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Baluchistan) made inroads into the National Assembly. A conglomeration of six parties, the Muttahida Majilis-e-Amal (MMA) emerged as a new political force and a political alternative to the PPP and PML-Nawaz (PML-N).
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  Broken vows: exposing the loupe holes in the diamond industry’s efforts to prevent the trade in conflict diamonds

  Global Witness, 2004

  This paper evaluates how well the US diamond industry is complying with self-regulation established to eliminate the trade in conflict diamonds, known as the ‘Kimberley Process’.The paper finds compliance with the Kimberley Process among companies surveyed ‘abysmal’:only five of the thirty retailers sent information on their policies on conflict diamonds when requestedthere were low
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  Investing in stability: conflict risk, markets and the bottom-line

  United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2004

  While the role of extractive industries in violent conflicts in developing countries has received much international attention and efforts to promote greater corporate responsibility, similar issues also face financial institutions which invest in conflict situations.
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  Capitalizing on conflict: how logging and mining contribute to environmental destruction in Burma

  EarthRights International, 2003

  This paper presents information illustrating how trade in timber, gems, and gold is financing violent conflict, including widespread and gross human rights abuses, in Burma.

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