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Naomi Campbell’s appearance at Liberian dictator Charles Taylor’s trial in The Hague has directed global attention to the pressing issue of blood diamonds.
Blood or “conflict” diamonds are essentially those stones which are mined in areas controlled by rebel armies and used to finance their bloody civil wars. They have underwritten some of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts – involving countries such as Angola, Cote D’Ivoire, the Congo – and crucially, in light of the ongoing trial in The Hague, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
It has been claimed that this problem is disappearing. Is it really?
"Energy Game changers", featuring Professor Wilhelm Schäfer, Robin Grimes and Colin Tudge, March 28th at RIBA
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"The best chance for peace between Israel and Palestine is for Uncle Sam to butt out”, featuring William Sieghart, 27th Feb 2012
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Rising star historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala on the origins of sex and how the permissive society arrived in Western Europe, 15th Feb
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