Author: Roman Grynberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137537612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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The Global Diamond Industry: Economics and Development brings together a collection of papers covering various aspects of the diamond industry including economics, law, history, sociology and development across two volumes.
Author: Ian Smillie
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 085728987X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Africa’s diamond wars took four million lives. ‘Blood on the Stone’ tells the story of how diamonds came to be so dangerous, describing the great diamond cartel and a dangerous pipeline leading from war-torn Africa to the glittering showrooms of Paris, London and New York. It describes the campaign that forced an industry and more than 50 governments to create a global control mechanism, and it provides a sobering prognosis on its future.
Author: Dr Franziska Bieri
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409499871
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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In the late 1990s, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) focused world attention on the issue of conflict diamonds which funded wars, massive death, and refugee crises across Central and West Africa. Several governments, NGOs, and key industry players engaged in negotiations under the so-called Kimberley Process (KP). A voluntary global agreement came into effect leading to a substantial decline in illicit diamond trade. Despite its importance in international affairs, the KP remains understudied in academia. Franziska Bieri's book provides the first comprehensive account of the KP and is the first to reveal how NGOs have become critical actors in their own right, possessing the ability to directly influence policies and to participate in the decision making and the implementation of global agreements. In developing this argument, Bieri explains: why the NGO campaign to raise awareness was successful; why a rapid and comprehensive resolution on such a complex global problem was possible; how the tripartite negotiations between states, NGOs, and industry developed during the implementation of the agreement, which is an on-going process. Based on extensive personal interviews with prominent campaigners, leading bureaucrats, and industry officials, hundreds of KP publications, official UN documents, industry news, and NGO reports, this timely book allows for a much needed engagement in contemporary debates about the campaign against conflict diamonds, the Kimberley Process, and the themes defining today's global governance arena.
Author: Roman Grynberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781349575626
Category : Diamond industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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"The Global Diamond Industry: Economics and Development brings together a collection of papers covering various aspects of the diamond industry including economics, law, history, sociology and development. These volumes are motivated by one objective alone and that is to provide intellectual light where none exists. The diamond industry is one that is long steeped in secrecy and each chapter and even each well researched anecdote helps others to understand this commodity and what are at times mysterious operations of the industry. This first volume presents literature tackling broad issues around the structure of the industry and demand and pricing of diamonds"--
Author: Tijl Vanneste
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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A sweeping history of our enduring passion for diamonds—and the exploitative industry that fuels it. Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical exposé of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, the monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the use of forced labor and political oppression by Indian sultans, Portuguese colonizers in Brazil, and Western industrialists in many parts of Africa—as well as the hoarding of diamonds to maintain high prices, from the English East India Company to De Beers. While recent discoveries of diamond deposits in Siberia, Canada, and Australia have brought an end to monopolization, the book shows that advances in the production of synthetic diamonds have not yet been able to eradicate the exploitation caused by the world’s unquenchable thirst for sparkle.
Author: Barak Richman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972171
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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How does Manhattan’s 47th Street diamond district thrive as an ethnic marketplace without lawyers, courts, and state coercion? Barak Richman draws on insider interviews to show why relational exchange based on familiarity, trust, and community enforcement succeeds and what it reveals about the modern state’s limitations in governing the economy.
Author: Edward Jay Epstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780722133446
Category : Diamond industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Author: Rebecca Jane Hall
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487540841
Category : Diamond mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Refracted Economies examines the gendered impact of the diamond industry in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
Author: David E. Koskoff
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Author: Greg Campbell
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465029922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. Eventually, these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces of brides and spouses the world over. Blood Diamonds is the gripping tale of how the diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry - institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel - have allowed it to happen. Award-winning journalist Greg Campbell traces the deadly trail of these diamonds, many of which are brought to the world market by fanatical enemies. These repercussions of diamond smuggling are felt far beyond the borders of the poor and war-ridden country of Sierra Leone, and the consequences of overlooking this African tragedy are both shockingly deadly and unquestionably global. Updated with a new epilogue.
