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Rocky Mountain PEACE Institute Rocky Mountain Peace Institute is conducting research that elucidates the stories and the conflicts behind the commodities that we consume.

Our goal is to improve decision-making for institutions, producers, and consumers. We support the peacebuilding and environmental security communities, including CSR practitioners, companies, NGOs, and governments through research, education, and training. Established as a think tank, research, and education institute, our goal is to improve the delivery of useful information related to understand

ing and addressing environmental conflicts. We seek to increase public understanding of the causes of environmental conflict, intervene as a third party neutral, and support environmental negotiations, while addressing conflicts between actors. We specialize in environmental governance and institutional design.

Comments on Bahrain, in an outstanding article on the deep splits within the ruling Al-Khalifa family.
02/21/2013

Comments on Bahrain, in an outstanding article on the deep splits within the ruling Al-Khalifa family.

A widening split between rival bloodlines within Bahrain's royal family is empowering anti-American hard-liners in this strategically important island-state, palace insiders say, stoking U.S. concerns about its primary naval base at the heart of the Persian Gulf.

02/19/2013

BRUSSELS — Eight masked gunmen forced their way through the security fence at Brussels’ international airport, drove onto the tarmac and snatched some $50 million worth of diamonds from the hold of a Swiss-bound plane without firing a shot.

The gang responsible for one of the biggest diamond heists in recent years used two black vehicles with a flashing blue police lights in their daring raid late Monday, said Anja Bijnens, spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor’s office.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/8-armed-men-drive-onto-tarmac-of-brussels-airport-and-steal-diamonds-from-planes-hold/2013/02/19/b12faf52-7a6e-11e2-9c27-fdd594ea6286_story.html?hpid=z3

02/13/2013

HARARE, Zimbabwe — A world monitoring group on conflict diamonds says it wants restrictions on the sale of Zimbabwe diamonds tightened in the face of calls to relax them by diamond companies in Belgium.

Global Witness said that St. Valentine’s Day, marked Thursday, coincides with calls by Belgium to ease controls on diamonds from the eastern Zimbabwe fields of Marange, long mired in allegations of killings, human rights violations and corruption.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/monitors-criticize-belgium-for-valentines-day-calls-to-ease-controls-on-zimbabwe-diamonds/2013/02/13/e644e93e-75ee-11e2-9889-60bfcbb02149_story.html

02/13/2013

JOHANNESBURG — Angola received a boost to its free speech from the Portuguese courts, which refused to allow Angolan generals to stop the publication of a book exposing corruption and human rights abuses in the southern African country’s lucrative diamond mines.

Portuguese prosecutors this week threw out a libel suit against a book that alleges Angolan generals own a diamond company and a security firm that carried out killings and the torture of workers toiling in the southern African nation’s mines.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/prosecutors-drop-libel-claim-for-book-on-angola-generals-alleged-ties-to-bloody-diamond-trade/2013/02/13/b66d33ce-75f3-11e2-9889-60bfcbb02149_story.html

02/05/2013

Talks aimed at resolving political unrest in Bahrain will start on Sunday, justice minister announces, the BBC's Bill Law reports.

01/29/2013

China’s coal use grew 9 percent in 2011, rising to 3.8 billion tons. At this point, the country is burning nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined.

Coal, of course, is the world’s premier fossil fuel, a low-cost source of electricity that kicks a lot of carbon-dioxide up into the atmosphere. And China’s growing appetite is a big reason why global greenhouse-gas emissions have soared in recent years, even as the United States and Europe have managed to curtail their coal use and cut their carbon pollution.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/29/china-is-burning-nearly-as-much-coal-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined/

Check out this great article on mining in India from Heather Plumridge Bedi!
01/15/2013

Check out this great article on mining in India from Heather Plumridge Bedi!

Bedi, H. P. (2013), Environmental Mis-Assessment, Development and Mining in Orissa, India. Development and Change, 44: 101–123. doi: 10.1111/dech.12000

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