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| Title: | War, Peace and Diamonds in Angola: Popular Perceptions of the Diamond Industry in the Lundas |
| Author: | Pearce, Justin |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Periodical: | African Security Review |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 51-64 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Angola |
| Subjects: | civil wars diamonds trade diamond mining Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2004.9627284 |
| Abstract: | Ten years ago, the diamond fields of northeastern Angola were synonymous with civil war. Following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding by UNITA and the FAA (Angolan Armed Forces), the arguments around 'conflict diamonds' were no longer applicable to Angola now that the country's diamond fields were, at least nominally, under State control. Based on a ten-day visit to the provinces of Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul in November 2003, the author examines to what extent the modalities of diamond production established in a time of war continue to influence the conduct of the industry today. He shows that, despite the notional return of peace to the Lundas, the management of the diamond industry retains many of the characteristics that it acquired during the period when the diamond fields were both a prize and a weapon in the civil war: the control of the diamond fields and their populations by force of arms; the absence of any kind of functioning legal framework to protect the rights of diamond workers and the population at large; the lack of any functioning civil administration in most parts of the Lunda provinces; and the domination of the Angolan diamond trade by secretive networks operating on the margins of the law, but ultimately to the benefit of the members of the political elite. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
