https://padlet.com/806254/9qccpvnclyop en-us 2017-12-01 01:56:40 UTC 2017-12-05 06:23:46 UTC hello@padlet.com 806254 https://padlet.com/806254/9qccpvnclyop/wish/212129657 1. Also known as the conflict diamonds, hot diamonds, and war diamonds. Blood diamonds are mined in war zones and sold to finance insurgencies.

2.  The area usually includes Central and West African.

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

4.  Civil War in Sierra Leone, a group known as the revolutionary united from killed threatened and even cut off the arms of people in Diamond villages.

5.  In Seirr a Leone, 20,000 people were mutilated and millions fled the country 

6. According to National  Geographic news blood diamonds are responsible for 4 million deaths 

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

8. The diamond industry responded to the movie with successful PR campaigns people kept buying 

9.In 2002, the Kimberley Process certification scheme was created to regulate diamond trading and prevent illegitimate diamonds from entering the market

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

11. The beers and the rest of the diamond industry now claimed that 99.8% of diamonds are conflict free 

12. In 2006, the United Nations and the US government released reports showing that nearly 23 million dollars of blood diamonds from the Ivory Coast were smuggled into Kimberley Process. 

13. The Kimberley Process relies on hopelessly corrupt governments of diamond producing countries to check and clarify their diamonds are legitimate. 

14. Certifications are then attached and sealed along with the diamonds as they exported 

15. The United States can then ensure that diamonds are not from illegitimate sources 

16. Government officials get paid off to let diamonds through or they get smuggled across borders into legitimate trading channels 

17. One of the founders of the Kimberley Process, Qian Smiley even resigned from the group not long ago 

18. The diamond trade is all bad legal diamonds promote development in underdeveloped nations 

19. The Kimberley Process did at least initially manage to curb a significant amount of violence related to blood diamonds 

20. Consumers aren't any way to know where the diamonds came from 

21. You could try synthetic diamonds, the natural diamond monopolies hate those and good ones are chemically indistinguishable 

22.  You could fly Africa and make sure the diamonds are legit with your own two eyes 

23. Informed about how the things you buy every day get on the store shelves through channels of violence and exploitation 

24. At any rate, the diamond industry continues to grow every year

25. For better or for worse this provides underdeveloped economies with jobs and corrupt political systems with money ]]> 2017-12-01 02:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/806254/9qccpvnclyop/wish/212129657 806254 https://padlet.com/806254/9qccpvnclyop/wish/212132826 A child soldiers was being trained  for ready for war, as it was child labors


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The Villages ]]> 2017-12-01 02:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/806254/9qccpvnclyop/wish/212132953 806254 https://padlet.com/806254/9qccpvnclyop/wish/212133024 People who are really responsible for Blood Diamonds. Conflict Diamonds have funded a civil war in Africa.]]> 2017-12-01 02:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/806254/9qccpvnclyop/wish/212133024 806254 https://padlet.com/806254/9qccpvnclyop/wish/213134277 Short Term:
Physical scars/amputations
Substance Addiction
Psychological Trauma/ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Long Term: 
Continued anti-social behavior
Psychological Damage 
Deindividuation
Non-productive member of society 
Literacy Rate 
Unemployment
GDP

Some of the short term and long term impacts of using children as soldiers that the people killed their parents and forced the kids to train as soldiers. They force the innocent children to kill some random people (innocent adults). If you are a girl, they either force you to get married to random people, sexual/raped or murdered them. ]]> 2017-12-05 02:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/806254/9qccpvnclyop/wish/213134277