Diamonds and human security

The campaign to halt conflict diamonds has largely succeeded, although the phenomenon continues in Côte d’Ivoire, seemingly beyond the ingenuity and the powers of the 75 governments represent- ed in the Kimberley Process (KP) and the world’s entire diamond industry. [...] This information makes it possible to track the value paid for diamonds as they leave the DRC for Dubai, and the price (and thus the mark-up) on those diamonds as they exit Dubai en route to their next buyer, typically in Belgium.4 The exporter hurriedly shoved the bills in his A government agency, the CEEC’s role is to value every parcel of dia- pocket, and the two parties tried to monds exported [...] The assessed value starts at US$23.43 in the year the independent valuer began, climbs 15% to US$26.99 the year the valuer’s contract was ter- minated, and falls precipitously thereafter, to US$21.83, nearly 7% below the 2003 starting point, and a full 20% below the peak achieved under the independent valuer. [...] While the printing glitch is likely surmountable, the pro- The Ministry of Mines, however, creates the impression of a bureaucracy gram itself seems to have been in trouble from the start. [...] The 2005 Kimberley Process Review Team made the following recom- mendations: The two crossed the bridge and continued to the village of Pone about 1. Angola should submit to the Kimberley Process a comprehensive two kilometres away, where they stopped to await their companion.