Conflict

The following page details information on conflicts involving the exploitation of natural resources that may include metals and minerals such as gold, diamonds, and coltan.

• Documents
• Resources

Documents

• EC Chairmanship of the Kimberley Process, From conflict diamonds to prosperity diamonds. January 2007. European Commission. (Adobe PDF)

• Mining and Human under-Development: Brewing Social Conflict in Orissa! Author: Ranjan K Panda. Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict (SSPC). Article No:101, January 21, 2007.

• Interim report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pursuant to Security Council resolution 1698 (2006). United Nations. Security Council 31 January 2007. (Adobe PDF)

• A closer look into the Minera Majaz mining conflict. Interview by Paola Tejada. Indymedi.be. April 03, 2007

• The Curse of Gold Democratic Republic of Congo. 2005 by Human Rights Watch. (Adobe PDF)

• Summary Report Mining on or Near Ancestral Lands in the Americas. October 5th, 2005 Otawa, Canada. The North-South Institute and Assembly of First Nations, (2006). (Adobe PDF)

• Congo, Coltan, Conflict. Author: Benjamin Todd. The Heinz School Review. Volume 3, Issue 1, Published on March 15, 2006.

• The Anatomy of Resource Wars - The Worldwatch Institute, October 2002. Available for purchase only in hardcopy or electronic formats US$5.

• Interim report of the United Nations Expert Panel on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - United Nations, UN Doc: S/2001/49 - 16 January 2001. (Adobe PDF)

• Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - United Nations, UN Doc: S/2001/357 - 12 April 2001. (Adobe PDF)

• Addendum to the report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - United Nations, UN Doc: S/2001/1072 - 13 November 2001. (Adobe PDF)

• Economic Causes of Civil Conflict and Their Implications for Policy - Paul Collier, Director, Development Research Group World Bank, World Bank, 15 June 2000.

• Stolen Goods: Coltan and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Dena Montague, SAIS Review vol. XXII no. 1, Winter–Spring 2002. (Adobe PDF)

• Extractive Sectors and the Poor - Michael Ross, Oxfam America, October 2001. (Adobe PDF)

• The New Geography of Conflict - Michael Klare. Foreign Affairs, June 2001.

• Risky Business: The Grasberg Gold Mine: An Independent Annual Report on P.T. Freeport Indonesia, 1998 - Minerals Policy Center, 1998.

• Global Witness: Conflict Diamond Campaign - Global Witness. Numerous reports dealing with conflicts involving diamonds.

• Global Witness: Oil Campaign - Global Witness. Numerous reports dealing with conflicts involving oil and gas.

Resources

• United Nations Department of Political Affairs, Security Council Affairs Division: Conflict Diamonds

• The Economics of Civil War, Crime, and Violence Project - The World Bank
  

• Diamonds in Conflict and The Dark Side of Natural Resources - Global Policy Forum

• Global Witness - Conflict Diamonds and Oil campaign.

• The True Cost of Diamonds - Amnesty International

• Campaign to Eliminate Conflict - A coalition of North American human rights, religious, humanitarian, peace, and development groups working to end the trade in conflict diamonds.

• Fatal Transactions Campaign - A coalition of European non-governmental organizations campaigning against conflict diamonds.

• Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science Programme for International Co-operation and Conflict Resolution - Publishes series of research reports on economies of conflict.

• International Crisis Group - Works to strengthen the capacity of the international community to prevent conflicts through reports based on field research.

• Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) - PAC, in collaboration with the International Peace Information Service in Belgium and the Network Movement for Justice and Development in Sierra Leone, launched
  the Human Security and the International Diamond Trade in Africa program in January 2001.

• See also information on the Bougainville Island conflict in the MRF section Indigenous Peoples.

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