Monitoring Marange: human rights surveillance, the Kimberley process, and Zimbabwe's blood diamonds

Thesis

This thesis examines the Kimberly Process (KP), a joint government, industry, and civil society initiative that launched a certification scheme in 2003 to stem the flow of 'conflict diamonds'. It traces its origins and early years and focuses on its later involvement in the politics around Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields, where it entered into the terrain of human rights. Marange is used as a case study to explore a particular conception of power as it relates to the pursuit of human rig...

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Authors: Simpson, JGR

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-nggvgbnbe
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford