2008

Fatal Transactions submits a statement to the EIB in reaction to their Environmental and Social Principles and Standards

As members of the Madison Dialogue, Fatal Transactions and EarthWorks published the report "Making Diamonds Work for Development": an overview of initiatives by private- government- and non-governmental actors.

BICC/ Fatal Transactions Germany organized a panel "Governing the Gift of Nature: the Links between Governance, Conflict and Natural Resources" at the 12th European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) General Conference.

This report is the second in a series of updates following the initial report of June 2007 "Mapping Interests in Conflict Areas: Katanga". The information for the updates is drawn from permanent field research carried out by four Katangese NGOs. These NGOs are based in different parts of Katanga and their research activities for this project cover the militarised territories of the province.

Fatal Transactions and BICC publish paper about conflict diamonds and the peace process in Côte d’Ivoire. The paper concludes that more attention is needed to pre-assess alternative mechanisms to break the link between natural resources and conflict and how they could effectively be combined with other sanctions (in particular financial sanctions) against key actors of the conflict.

Fatal Transactions was present at the Intersessional meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. In the running up to this meeting, Fatal Transactions published a short paper on the diamond situation in Côte d’Ivoir, a country still under UN embargo.The following press release was issued by the KP Civil Society Coalition, of which Fatal Transactions is member.

On Thursday 29th of May, IKV Pax Christi and NiZA organized a public debate on the role of China in resource exploitation in Africa.

BICC/ Fatal Transactions Germany organizes the panel Governing the Gift of Nature: the Links between Governance, Conflict and Natural Resources at the 12th European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) General Conference.

Venezuela weakens effort to control conflict diamonds. Therefore Fatal Transactions has signed a call from the Civil society members of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for rough diamonds, of which FT is a part, to immediately expulse Venezuela from the KPCS.

At the ACUNS Annual Meeting in Bonn 5-7th the panel that was part of the three day conference “ The UN and the Global Development Architecture” looked into the role of education for peace building.