https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2017-12-01 01:51:11 UTC 2017-12-05 02:53:08 UTC hello@padlet.com 214088 https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212129538 1. Blood diamonds are mined in war zones and sold to finance insurgencies
2.  Areas usually include central and west african countries
3. Warlords use extreme violence to force the locals into extracting their diamonds. 
4. RUF in sierra leone killed, threathened and amputated villagers to control the mines. 
5. In sierra Leone 20,000 people were mutilated and millions fled the country
6. Blood diamonds are responsible for 4 million deaths according to NatGeo
7.  Known to public because of Leonardo Dicaprio's movie "Blood diamonds" 
8. Diamond industries responded to the movie's controversy through successful PR campaigns. 
9. 2002 KPIS was created to regulate blood diamonds flowing into the market
10. UN general assembly devised the Kimberley process. 
11. De Beers and rest of the diamond industries claimed that 99% of the diamands are conflict free / not blood diamonds. 
12. in 2006, US & UN government reported that nearly 23 million smuggled from ivory coast to KP countries
13. KP relies on hopelessly corrupt countries to verify diamonds. 
14. Certifications are faked 
15. US ensures verifies those Diamonds
16. Officials paid off for smuggling. 
17. Official resigned.
18. Legal diamonds are like fair trade, they promote the development of poor countries. 
19. KP initially curved significant amount of violence. 
20. As a consumer not much can be done, can't really ascertain where the diamonds came from. 
21. Try Synthetic diamond, good ones are chemically indistinguishable 
22. You can travel to Africa to verify by obesving the process of aqcuiring those daimonds. 
23. Stay informed how consumer goods are smuggled. 
24. Diamond Industries grows every year. 
25. For better or worse, this provides jobs and corrupt political system with money.

]]> 2017-12-01 02:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212129538 214088 https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132886 Guess: Child Soldier 
'Enlisted' by the local terrorist group to work in the local areas as enslaved soldiers 

Short term:
- combatants and members grow exponentially 
- Physical scars / amputations 
- Substance Addiction 
- Psychological Trauma - Post-Traumatic Stress disorder  
Long term: 
- Continued anti-social behavior 
- Psych. damage
- Deindividuation
 - Non-productive member of society
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]]> 2017-12-01 02:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132886 214088 https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132913 Chairman of De Beers, controls 95% of the global diamond mines. company processing the diamonds. Monopoly on the diamond market. 
Have created a False scarcity ]]> 2017-12-01 02:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132913 214088 https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132924 Guess: UN or Governments militia, to combat terrorist groups. ]]> 2017-12-01 02:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132924 214088 https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132935 Guess: The consumer or Influencing Celebrity that adds to the societal expectation that diamonds is a show of status and social stature ]]> 2017-12-01 02:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132935 214088 https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132956 Guess: The victims, of the terrorist groups, a collateral damage of the cause and means of the hostile groups that want to control diamond mining by terrorizing local villagers and children]]> 2017-12-01 02:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212132956 214088 https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212134244 The people that are really responsible for this are the consumers. It can be argued that supplies create their own demand but showing avocation and transpiring the reality behind the demand trade and preventing ]]> 2017-12-01 02:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/212134244 214088 https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/213131794 Blood diamonds have been linked to: 
- Violence against populations.
- Civil War.
- Child Soldiers]]> 2017-12-05 02:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/214088/l2armz1xuxqf/wish/213131794