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Trading Conflict for Development
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NameTrading Conflict for Development
DescriptionBanning or disrupting the regional trade in minerals from Eastern DR Congo will put up to one million livelihoods at risk and perpetuate insecurity. Current calls for a ban or disruption of trade in cassiterite, coltan, and wolframite from the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), arguing that such measures have the potential to wreck the livelihoods of up to one million people regionally and would perpetuate insecurity in Eastern DR Congo. The report, based on research funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, The London School of Economics and Political Science’s Crisis States Research Centre and the Conflict Research Group at Ghent University, urges policy makers, the private sector and other stakeholders to commit to reforming the existing trade in minerals from DR Congo instead of banning or disrupting it. The report, researched and written by Nicholas Garrett and Harrison Mitchell of Resource Consulting Services, suggests that military gain from the trade in Eastern DR Congo’s minerals, which generated at least 4m US$ to the Congolese state in tax revenue in 2008, is not the primary cause of insecurity and violence in North Kivu. Though the report acknowledges deep-seated problems with the trade, it goes further and suggests that, in contrast to current policy approaches, security and trade issues should be addressed separately as trade-based solutions to security issues, such as sanctions, are likely to have little effect on the perpetuation of the conflict.
FilenameTrading Conflict for Development.pdf
Filesize1.55 MB
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