POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, Blood Diamond, Papaver Somniferum

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2I03
• Professor: Andrew Lui

Document Summary

Two emerging norms: using blood diamonds (kimberly process) and the responsibility to protect. What the kimberly process can teach us about other commodities and the violations of human rights. Diamonds: it is often something that is granted to individuals to many societies to signify passages milestones in one"s life. In 1990"s people started to pay attention to if diamonds are responsible in part of whole for human rights violations, corruption, and state of disparity in many war-torn countries. When ngos looked at how diamonds are found and made in many countries, something as valuable as diamond perpetuates that particular war and the disparities of individuals, and the power authorities, how it is distributed in those societies. Human beings in countries like seri leo are commodified, and used like slaves to dig up diamonds, and how they are used by rebel groups and how sometimes they violate them.