“This mine has become our farmland": Critical perspectives on the coevolution of artisanal mining and conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jocelyn T.D. Kelly

Resources Policy, 2014, vol. 40, issue C, 100-108

Abstract: The debate on conflict minerals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been widely documented by the international media, government and non-governmental agencies and academics. In recent years, a variety of international initiatives have been launched to curb the flow of funding from conflict minerals to armed groups. Many of these initiatives, however, have led to the loss of livelihoods for millions of small-scale miners.

Keywords: Artisanal and small-scale mining; Conflict; Political economy; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2013.12.003

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