Conflict minerals in optics industry

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemarie Szostak
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Minerals ◽  
Optics Industry

Beyond “Conflict Minerals”: The Congo’s Resource Curse Lives On

Dissent ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Kinniburgh
Keyword(s):  
Resource Curse ◽  
Conflict Minerals

Digging Deeper: the Politics of ‘Conflict Minerals’ in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Global Policy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Cuvelier ◽  
Jose Diemel ◽  
Koen Vlassenroot
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Conflict Minerals ◽  
Republic Of The Congo

Cracking Down on Conflict Minerals

IEEE Spectrum ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 11-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliza Strickland
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Minerals

Brokers of crisis: the everyday uncertainty of Eastern Congo's mineral négociants

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Vogel ◽  
Josaphat Musamba
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Conflict Minerals ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
North And South

ABSTRACTEastern Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) artisanal mining sector is often linked to the violent conflicts that have beset Central Africa for over two decades. While many analyses emphasise its ‘criminal’ and ‘illegal’ nature, less attention has been paid to the ambiguity of this economy, most prominently incarnated by the intermediate mineral traders callednégociants. Focusing on their entrepreneurship, networks and everyday activities, this essay offers a more nuanced understanding of local mineral trade in the context of a ‘crisis economy’ framed by competing governable orders. It investigates the uncertainty along eastern DRC's mineral supply chains, that are undergoing major regulatory changes to curb the trade of so-called ‘conflict minerals’. Drawing from extensive fieldwork, this essay demonstrates how this uncertainty shapes the négociants’ role as brokers of socio-economic life in the provinces of North and South Kivu.

scholarly journals The European Union and natural resources that fund armed conflicts: Explaining the EU’s policy choice for supply chain due-diligence requirements

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn C Vlaskamp
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Conflict Minerals ◽  
The Eu

Natural resources can be an important source of funding for warring parties in armed conflicts. Curbing the trade in these so-called conflict resources is, therefore, part of the European Union’s conflict management policies. The article explores the EU’s policies in this field and asks, specifically, why the EU is using supply chain due-diligence measures to achieve this goal. The author argues that they are the response to enforcement problems of most existing multilateral and unilateral sanction regimes because of state weakness in the targeted regions. This approach results from a broader idea from the EU that transparency can improve resource governance and, therefore, safeguard both its political and economic interests in conflict zones, such as the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, when the issue becomes specific—as in the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation—translating this idea into concrete policies becomes more contentious as the EU institutions set different priorities for the final policy design.

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