https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1 en-us 2017-12-01 01:51:00 UTC 2017-12-05 02:53:30 UTC hello@padlet.com 215770 https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212129748 1. aka conflict diamonds, hot diamonds, and war diamonds, as those are mined in war zones and sold to finance insurgencies.

2. usually central and west African countries

3. Warlords use extreme violence in order to force the locals into extracting their diamonds

4. e.g.) during the civil war (Sierra Leone), Revolutionary United Front killed, threatened, and even cut off the arms of people in the diamond villages until they took control of the mines

5. In there, 20,000 people were mutilated and millions fled the country

6. blood diamonds are responsible for 4 millions deaths (National Geographic News )

7. The problem wasn't really made known to the public until Leonard DiCaprio starred in the movie Blood Diamond

8. Diamond Industry responded the movie with successful PR campaigns -- people kept buying.

9. In 2002 the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme was create to regulate diamond trading and prevent illegitimate diamonds from entering the market

10. It was envisioned by diamond industry and instated by the United Nations

11. De Beers and the rest of the diamond industry now claim that 99.8% of diamonds are conflict free.

12. These certifications are then attached and sealed along with the diamonds as they are exported

13.In 2006, however, the United Nations and the US government released reports showing that nearly $23 million of blood diamonds from the Ivory Coast were smuggled into Kimberly processed country

14. The Kimberly Process relies on the hopelessly corrupt governments of diamond producing countries to check and certify their diamonds are legitimate. (how is this reliable?)

15. countries like United States can ensure that the diamonds are not from illegitimate sources.

16. Many times government officials get paid off to let diamonds through or they get smuggled accross borders into legitimate trading channels.

17. One of the founders of the Kimberly Process, Ian Smillie, even resigned from the group not long ago citing its ineffectiveness.

18. This is not to say that the Diamond Trade is all bad. Legal diamonds promote development in underdeveloped nations.

19. The Kimberly Process did, at least initially, managed to curb a significant amount of violence related to blood diamonds.

20. So what can be done? As a consumer, not much. There really isn't any way to know where the diamond came from.

21. Well, you could try synthetic diamonds. The natural diamond monopolies hate those and good ones are chemically indistinguishable.

22.Fly to Africa and make sure the diamonds are legit with your own two eyes?

23. also just try to stay informed about how the things you buy everyday get onto store shelves through channels of violence and exploitation.

24. The diamond industry continues to grow every year

25.This provides underdeveloped economies with jobs and corrupt political systems with money (so good or bad?)]]> 2017-12-01 02:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212129748 215770 https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132736 - child soldiers / armies who is forced to fight for the organization
- drug intake from young age, not educated, abandon their morality, desensitized 
short term effect : more efficient holocaust, physical scars, substance addiction, trauma 
long term effect : drug addiction --> reproduction of drug circulation, longer civil war, loss of morality, loss of education --> reproduce anti-social behavior, deindividuation, decrease in literacy rate and GDP, increase in unemployment ]]> 2017-12-01 02:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132736 215770 https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132745 Chair man of De Beer / ones that takes blood diamonds into market
- De Beer controls 95% of the world diamond minds
- have created false scarcity 
- monopoly]]> 2017-12-01 02:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132745 215770 https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132761 the rebels / citizens that goes against the gov

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society ]]> 2017-12-01 02:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132796 215770 https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132862 citizens of the country / victim of the rebel organization]]> 2017-12-01 02:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132862 215770 https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132915 all of them/us are responsible for blood diamonds. this is like a chain and if one changes (e.g. government) it will turn good. However, since all of us are contributing to blood diamonds, we all should be responsible. However, considering who could be the most influencial, De Beer is the most responsible]]> 2017-12-01 02:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/212132915 215770 https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/213132227 mined : central south Africa
production : russia, Australia, India
buyer : Russia, the U.S., Europe, Canada, China]]> 2017-12-05 02:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/213132227 215770 https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/213133011 violence against populations, civil war, child soldiers]]> 2017-12-05 02:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/215770/4ta5gu9oazv1/wish/213133011