Nicholas Salmons
11/27/09
5:41 pm
Featured in this short video is an exposition of the Conflict Minerals Trade Act, a bill that would help to eliminate the funding of militant groups in the Eastern Congo through a multimillion-dollar mineral trade. The "Three T's" of conflict minerals are tungsten, tin, and tantalum; also included in the list is gold. These minerals are present in sophisticated but highly available tech, such as cell phones, laptops, and digital cameras. The bill itself is developmental, in that it will "help to develop the means to ensure" that the mineral trade no longer brings any profit to rebel groups and likewise stops fueling conflict in regions such as the Congo. The bill also provides a means by which the technology companies can trace where the materials found in their products are harvested, in what manner they are collected, and who is being paid for their collection. Currently, these supply chains are incredibly complex and inefficient. Under the Conflict Minerals Trade Act, auditors would be instated to interact with “key actors” in the system, who know the origins of the materials processed in their link of the chain. These actors would then be made to go on record and validate their claim’s legitimacy.
I think this act sounds pretty good. Unaccountability throughout the process of production has seemingly always historically proven disastrous when it comes to human rights violations. I also thought the 3 steps for the Obama administration (Congolese army reform, comprehensive counterinsurgency, increasing war crime accountability) made a great deal of sense, at least on the surface.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/11/sullivan_video.html
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