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Canadian mining in Guatemala has been associated with violence and death. Opposition to an INCO mine in the El Estor region in the 1960's resulted in the assassination of two law professors, and another activist has been killed in 2009. In the San Marcos region of Guatemala, two deaths are...
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Within the puzzle of why conflict persists in natural resource rich countries, and why in the critical case of the DRC in particular, I looked at two questions in detail: First, how the incentive structures of different actors in a ‘conflict economy’, including ‘coping’, ‘conflict’...
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Despite a sizeable literature, there is no consensus as to whether and how mineral resources are linked to conflict. In … this paper, we estimate the relationship between giant mineral deposit discoveries and the intensity of armed conflict … with respect to mineral commodity type: metals with a low value-to-weight ratio are not easy to exploit and smuggle and …
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In July of 2010, Congress enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. As part of the legislation, Congress directed the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue rules requiring certain companies to disclose their use of conflict minerals originating in the...
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