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International Community Urged to Refocus on Security Sector Reform
in Eastern Congo: Interventions in the Mineral Trade not Enough
to Stop the Conflict in Eastern DRC
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Beyond Conflict: Reconfiguring approaches to the regional trade in minerals from Eastern DRC has been released by the multi-donor Communities and Small Scale Mining initiative, the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), and the Crisis Research Group at Ghent University.
The report challenges recent suggestions that mineral trading in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the main cause of the ongoing conflict. Rather, the primary reason for insecurity in the Eastern DRC is the inability of the Congolese state to control the monopoly of violence and protect its citizens. The widely reported military predation on the minerals trade is another symptom of insecurity and thus intervening in the trade is not enough to solve the crisis.
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The report, researched and written by Harrison Mitchell and Nicholas Garrett of London-based specialist consultancy Resource Consulting Services urges policy makers to refocus on consolidating the security sector to solve issues of insecurity in Eastern DRC. It suggests donors, the private sector and development NGOs should engage with, formalize and empower the minerals trade, which forms the main foreign exchange earner for Eastern DRC and basis for the livelihood of over one million people. In the DRC’s import-dependent economy it is imperative to utilize the full potential of the trade to contribute to peace building and poverty reduction.
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- Beyond Conflict: Reconfiguring approaches to the regional trade in minerals from Eastern DRC, 05-Oct-2009
- Rwanda: Gov't Eyes Artisanal Mining, AllAfrica.com, 02-Aug-2009, 18-Aug-2009
- Tanzania Mining Industry: Revenues, Resentment and Overregulation?, Ratio Magazine, 21-Jul-2009, 18-Aug-2009
- The Price of Glitz: All that glisters is not green, The Economist, 27-Jul-2009, 18-Aug-2009
- Govt begins mineral titles revalidation, approves World Bank $10 million grant, Guardian Newspaper, 02-Jun-2009
- AFGHANISTAN: Risking one’s health for a pittance, IRIN, 28-May-2009
- ENVIRONMENT: Preserve Peru’s Biodiversity, Save the World, IPS, 28-May-2009
- Artisanal Mining Can Increase Employment, ThisDay - Tanzania, , 27-Mar-2009
- U.N. Reaches Landmark Agreement to Reduce Global Mercury Pollution , 20-Feb-2009
- Elle Magazine, December 2008 features story about diamonds from Sierra Leone, 13-Nov-2008
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