Read my philosophy paper on the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) and its efficacy in limiting the trade of conflict diamonds, published in LSE's PPE journal, "Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics."

https://sppe.lse.ac.uk/articles/63

An Evaluation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme's Efficacy in Limiting the Trade of Conflict Diamonds

Abstract

In this paper, I first conceptualise the phenomenon of the resource course before evaluating one proposal, i.e. the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) that aims to address it. I argue that while the KPCS is a positive step in this direction and has achieved some successes, its efficacy has been limited on a number of fronts due to intrinsic flaws in the KP’s conceptualisation, constitution, decision-making process, monitoring, oversight, and implementation for which I consider some remedies.

Keywords:

• Resource Curse

• Paradox of Plenty

• Conflict Diamonds

• Kimberley Process Certification Scheme

• Flaws

  https://sppe.lse.ac.uk/articles/63/files/6740bdd50dc99.pdf