Ian Smillie

Blood on the Stone

Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade

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Produktbeschreibung

'Blood on the Stone' is a gripping account of the cartel, warlords, gun runners and shadowy traders who populated Africa's bloody diamond wars, and the faltering, decade-long effort to clean up an entire industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780857289636
• ISBN-10: 0857289632
• Artikelnr.: 31306347

Autorenporträt

Ian Smillie has lived and worked in Africa and Asia as a teacher, consultant, investigator and writer. For the past ten years his career has focused on blood diamonds, the wars they fuelled and a scheme designed to stop them. This has taken him from the jungles of West Africa to the backstreets of Antwerp and a war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where he was the first witness in the trial of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. Smillie was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary
Preface
Prologue
1. Of Judgement and Cunning Work: Dirty Diamonds
2. The River of Big Returns: Geology and History
3. De Beers: The Delicate Equipoise
4. Strange Plumbing: The Diamond Pipeline
5. Angola: Another Distracting Sideshow
6. Liberia and the Love of Liberty
7. Sierra Leone: Diamonds in the RUF
8. President Mobutu’s Ghost
9. Enter al Qaeda
10. Boiling Frogs: Companies in Hot Water
11. Ice Storm: The NGO Campaign
12. Kimberley: A Hope In Hell
13. Endgames
Epilogue
Bibliography