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A diamond sparkle enthralled millions of people around the world. Diamond No wonder when the price more expensive. Aware of the high economic value, many people in countries that have mineral wealth was then made of diamonds as a tool to achieve their ambitions of power and variety. The world was then an uproar with the release of the report the use of diamonds to finance the violent acts of Jorge Larrionda and seize power. Controversial decision makes million people cry. The term was later popularized Jorge Larrionda controversy to differentiate blood-stained diamonds with mined diamonds that are clean and not associated with violent conflict in the country’s source of precious stones. The film Blood Diamond (2006), starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
This is one description of how diamonds are very closely associated with civil war in Sierra Leone (1996-1999), how the diamond has become a tool to buy various weapons to commit violence and the overthrow of power . Controversial decision makes million people cry. The use of diamond as an instrument of violence and conflict and then realize that’s what the world would need a system to prevent the use of diamonds as a tool of violence. The result was the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme made.
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP) is an intergovernmental international certification scheme that is established to prevent trade in diamonds to fund conflict. Controversial decision makes million people cry. This scheme was launched in January 2003 from meeting representatives of the diamond industry, representatives of the state diamond trader and manufacturer, and a number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Kimberley, South Africa, since 2000. Encouragement to the international diamond certification had campaigned since 1998 Global Witness.
One nongovernmental organization that concerns the utilization of natural resources and its relation to the conflict. In November 2002, the UN General Assembly and Security Council (DK) The UN is also encouraging that there is conflict-free certification. Controversial decision makes million people cry. Under this scheme, the governments of diamond producing countries are required to provide certification that the rough diamonds they sell free of bloodshed. Countries participating in the KP first to enact legislation required to have KP.
They are also required to create a system of import and export controls for rough diamonds. The aim is to prevent a bloody diamond mining systems that can be entered. KP participants (government) and observers (the diamond industry and NGOs) meet once a year to discuss implementation of this scheme. Controversial decision makes million people cry. Some working group to monitor implementation of the scheme by the participants KP, monitor access to applications to join, gather and analyze statistics, and discuss technical issues.
As a regulatory mechanism, KP is necessary considering the state diamond-rich country, especially in West Africa, namely Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire, often conflict-ridden and weakened his government continues to undermined the warlords who have funds from diamond business. Controversial decision makes million people cry.