Amid persisting concerns over how mineral exploitation is entangled with conflict, human rights abuses, smuggling, and corruption, the Kimberley Process (KP) keeps resurfacing as a go-to model. Its core approach – a certification scheme meant to ban conflict diamonds, which now account for allegedly less than 1% of the global trade – is being held … Continue reading Why the Kimberley Process is not the answer to today’s mineral governance challenges