What the Kimberley Process Doesn’t Want You To Know — Sharon Z Jewelry

When a Summer of 2021 conference of the Kimberley Method (KP) turned contentious, I identified hope.

This is not an attempt to “obtain a silver lining” in a awful predicament. I was nowhere near this assembly, have no associations to this team and only needle them on-line on celebration. But this time, for the moment, I observed a lot more and extra persons accumulating on line to accept what was taking place in entrance of our eyes. And that what is occurring is a immediate resistance to accountability or oversight.

The KP resists oversight at each and every convert and in the method, they shoot on their own and the diamond field in the foot. The Kimberley System Civil Society, an business developed to present accountability to the KP, could not sway KP users to maintain on their own accountable. Avoiding observers to an opaque system like the KP will not make trust and it turns the entire method into the punchline to a dim joke. In brief, just about every time the KP refuses accountability, a lab-grown diamond receives its wings.

You could possibly feel that I would come to feel disappointed or ready to toss in the towel, but no. I know that I am not by itself in this any more. Additional than at any time, jewelers, activists, customers, and miners all-around the environment realize this as a broken process. And we are finding new strategies to function jointly exterior of it. Designers are embracing mine-to-market gemstones for their elegance and their transparency. Shoppers are much more inclined than ever to search for out the most ethical jewelry they can find. Corporations and activists are working with mining communities to find new strategies to operate with each other. This all presents me hope for a foreseeable future jewelry marketplace with fairness developed suitable in.

The enthusiasm is there, the motivation for a lot more moral diamonds is there, but the route to attaining them is comprehensive of hurdles. Clearing the path to a much more moral system requires transparency and political will. If they won’t be able to do it, then we will.

For far more studying:

https://www.pactworld.org/our-abilities/mining

https://www.kpcivilsociety.org/push/kimberley-process-civil-modern society-coalition-phone calls-for-urgent-market-motion-stop-the-ongoing-move-of-conflict-diamonds/

https://www.kpcivilsociety.org/exercise/observe-webinar-conflict-diamonds-are-actual-serious-discuss-is-rare-impacted-communities-want-answers/

From 2014, but good for history –