Blood Diamonds Corruption

Conflict Diamonds, also known as Blood Diamonds, are diamonds and other precious stones that are illegally harvested and utilized to privately fund wars. The majority of the time, blood diamonds are gathered in their raw forms in lesser developed countries, or countries ravaged with war, and are sold to wholesale buyers, where the diamonds are released into the market labeled as legitimate diamonds. Blood Diamonds are the root of many problems. Organized militia syndicates often utilize slavery and the threat of death to force miners into cooperation. The diamonds are then used to fund for personal, questionable, or violent purposes, so the vicious cycle continues, as the armed fighters grow stronger with new weapons and more manpower,

As of the current moment, almost the entire diamond industry is controlled by a single transnational corporation, who currently is able to maintain a monopoly and control prices. The United States believes that this is the primary problem that we need to tackle. Our current objective is to break up this corporation into smaller corporations in order to decrease monopolization. One company controlling every aspect of the industry breeds corruption and bribery, so this is our primary concern. With control divided into several companies, each individual corporation is forced to make more responsible legal

Several solutions have been proposed to solve these predicaments. The United States would like to introduce the International Diamond Database (IDD), where every outgoing shipment of diamonds, stored in a tamper-free container with a unique barcode and tracking dot is labeled, identified, and marked in the International Diamond Database, right at the point of mining. If the shipment is not in the database, the country is legally not permitted to allow it to enter its borders (the tracking dot will provide accurate location of the shipment). If for whatever reason the shipment is let in, the database will notify the whole world, at which point, the country would suffer economic sanctions, or military force. We also believe that the tightening of border control would destroy the illegal diamond trade. By utilizing group immunity and tightening security in select countries in the African region, we can provide safety for the whole continent. Tightening borders will decrease smuggling, forcing the warlords to either fight their way in or legally begin