https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi Atmaj Roy - HGP3C - 1/12/17 en-us 2017-12-01 01:51:11 UTC 2025-11-09 00:20:21 UTC hello@padlet.com 2122611 https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212129765

AKA Conflict Diamonds, Hot Diamonds, & War Diamonds.

1. Mined in war zones.
2. Sold to finance insurgencies.

Central and West African countries.

War lords use extreme violence to force the locals extract Diamonds.

RUF cut of people's limbs till they took control over diamond mines.

20,000 were mutilated and fled the country in Sierra Leone.

According to Nat Geo, blood Diamonds responsible for 4,000,000 deaths.

Not know to public till DiCaprio made a movie called blood diamond.

Diamond industry responded with successful PR campaigns, people kept buying.

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

Envision by diamond industry instated by UN.

DeBeers and rest of diamond industry claimed 99.8% Diamonds are conflict free.

2006, UN & US gov released reports showing $23,000,000 of blood Diamonds from Ivory Coast were smuggled into Kimberly Process countries.

Kimberly Process relies on hopelessly corrupt governments of diamond producing countries to check & certify their Diamonds are legitimate.

Then attached and sealed along with Diamonds as they are exported.

Countries like US can ensure the Diamonds are not from illegitimate sources.

Governments get paid off to let Diamonds through where they are smuggled across borders into legitimate trading channels.

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

Legal Diamonds provide development in under developed nations.

Kimberly Process did manage to reduce significant amount of violence related to Diamonds.

No way to know where Diamonds came from as consumer.

Synthetic Diamonds are indistinguishable from real Diamonds.

Fly to Africa to check if Diamonds are legitimate.

Think about how things you buy came to the store. Thorugh violence and war?

Diamond industry is growing every year.

Provide undeveloped economies with jobs and corrupt political systems with money.

]]> 2017-12-01 02:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212129765 2122611 https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132735 Child solider with a gun, represents being in war and working for diamond industry.]]> 2017-12-01 02:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132735 2122611 https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132802 Chairman of DeBeers, plays big role in controlling where Diamonds come from. Controls 95% of world's diamond mines. Monopoly over diamonds. Have created false scarcity]]> 2017-12-01 02:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132802 2122611 https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132852 Adults going to war, fighting for land to mine the Diamonds and who gets control over them.]]> 2017-12-01 02:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132852 2122611 https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132868 Kanye West, made a song to let people know about the conflict going on with Diamonds and how it comes to them. A consumer.]]> 2017-12-01 02:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132868 2122611 https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132930 A kid with chopped hands, RUF argued they didn't want people to mine Diamonds and support the government.]]> 2017-12-01 02:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212132930 2122611 https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212133027 2017-12-01 02:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/212133027 2122611 https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/213134296 Some short terms impacts may include the children being traumatised by what has just happened to them, being emotionally sick, substance addiction, physical scars/amputations. Some long term impacts might be, the organisations don't really have to pay the child solidiers, and they'd since to the adults of the group as their parents have probably been killed, anti-social behaviour, deindividuation, non-productive member of society, literacy rate in country increases, unemployment rates, lower GDP. The psychological impact would be, the children believing everything the group tells them is true, and they are only doing the 'good' things. Culturally, every other nation thinks bad of them, people have a bad impression on that country. Economically, if people see things like this and how they get their diamonds, they might stop buying diamonds that come from that country, which would basically corrupt their economy.]]> 2017-12-05 02:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/2122611/b7cs0ryyyjvi/wish/213134296