Publications
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Strijd tegen conflictmineralen: sleutel tot conflictresolutie in Oost-Congo?
- Ken Matthysen | 24 juillet 2013
De PDF van dit artikel is met toestemming van de redactie overgenomen uit de /Internationale Spectator, Clingendael Magazine voor Internationale Betrekkingen/, uitgegeven door de Koninklijke Van Gorcum, te Assen namens het Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen ‘Clingendael’ te Den Haag. Download in pdf of open met issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisresearch/docs/20130700_is_art_mat
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Business, Human Rights, and Uganda’s Oil. Part I: Uganda’s oil sector and potential threats to human rights
- Chris Musiime, Gabriella Wass | 12 juillet 2013
The following report is the first of a series of four collaborations between IPIS Research and ActionAid International Uganda. The series sheds a light on the oil sector in Uganda, its possible impact on human rights, and how government, companies, and civil society can best enable a positive bond between oil and the welfare of the Ugandan people. This first report opens by providing a situational
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Upstream Implementation of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. Final Report on one-year pilot implementation of the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten
- IPIS | 1 janvier 2013
Final Report on one-year pilot implementation of the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten. This report is the final in a cycle of three reports on the pilot implementation by upstream companies of the “Supplement on Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas”. The goal of the report is to p
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The formalisation of artisanal mining in the DRC and Rwanda
- IPIS | 29 décembre 2012
This report describes and evaluates initiatives to formalise the artisanal mining sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, in order to locate lessons learned. We hope that these perspectives will support the formation of well-informed policy and regulatory options – both by the EU and by harvesting countries – concerning the formalisation of timber production in tropical co
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Exploitation minière industrielle et artisanale au Sud-Kivu. Possibilités d’une cohabitation pacifique ?
- Gabriel Kamundala Byemba | 29 décembre 2012
Le secteur minier en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) en général et au Sud-Kivu en particulier alimente toujours les débats tant au niveau international qu’au niveau national. Présenté sous plusieurs facettes, ce secteur au Sud-Kivu a été dans le temps industriel, puis artisanal et aujourd’hui il est en même temps artisanal et industriel. Le retour en force, ces dernières années, des société
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Mapping Conflict Minerals (2012)
- Elisabeth Schoepfer, Filip Hilgert, Kristin Sproehnle | 28 décembre 2012
How GMES supports the International Peace Information Service (IPIS), in: Window on GMES, Special Issue: Discover the “S” in GMES, pp. 82-88 Exploitation of natural resources has, in most cases, a strong impact on the environment, often even spoiling natural habitats and affecting people’s way of life. The exploitation and trade of minerals can also fuel armed conflicts, as it is the case in the E
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Upstream Implementation of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. Cycle 2 Interim Progress Report on the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten
- IPIS | 20 juin 2012
Cycle 2 Interim Progress Report on the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten. The following report is the second in a cycle of three on upstream companies’ implementation of the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten to the OECD’s Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. The objective of the following is to report on progres
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A Taxonomy of Non-State Armed Actors in the Central African Republic (2012)
- Jasper Bauters | 2 janvier 2012
This report hopes to provide an overview of how the Central African Republic got to where it is now, as well as to present the means to further our understanding of the current situation. First a genealogy of the current situation is provided, which is presented in the form of a narrative literature overview encompassing the postcolonial period. This is followed by a brief account on the main conf
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Bisie. A one-year snapshot of the DRC’s principal cassiterite mine (2011)
- Filip Hilgert | 28 novembre 2011
Much has happened in the mining sector of Eastern DRC over the last year. President Kabila imposed a ban on all mining activities last fall, during which production fell considerably. As soon as the suspension was lifted in the spring of this year, the major global electronic companies stopped buying minerals from the region, provoking a de facto embargo on Congo’s minerals with detrimental effect
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Upstream Pilot Implementation of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas
- IPIS | 1 novembre 2011
Baseline Report on the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten IPIS executed the research for and the writing of this OECD report. The present baseline report is the first in a cycle of three reports on the implementation by upstream companies of the Supplement on Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and Hi
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Kenya’s role in the trade of gold from eastern DRC
- Jeroen Cuvelier | 5 août 2011
On 11 September 2010, the Congolese Ministry of Mines put out a statement in which it announced President Kabila’s decision to suspend all exploitation and export of minerals from the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Maniema until further notice. The statement explained that the ban was intended to put a stop to the illegal exploitation of natural resources in eastern DRC. In the decree est
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Guide to Current Mining Reform Initiatives in Eastern DRC
- Didier Verbruggen, Evie Francq, Jeroen Cuvelier | 17 avril 2011
US legislation has brought on a variety of initiatives aiming at mining reform in EDRC. This paper describes the basic elements of these initiatives, their genesis, the current state of affairs, the inkages between the initiatives and the main challenges they face. Further, the paper briefly evaluates the initiatives while focussing on the steps ahead. Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. ht
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La complexité de la gestion des ressources dans un contexte de fragilité de l’État : le cas de l’est de la RDC
- Jeroen Cuvelier | 4 avril 2011
Bien que de nombreuses études publiées au cours de la décennie qui vient de s’écouler aient souligné le rôle central joué par le coltan, l’or et la cassitérite dans les conflits qui continuent de secouer la région, le mode opératoire des différents acteurs participant à l’exploitation et au commerce de ces minerais reste mal connu. Davantage d’informations sont requises sur le mode opératoire des
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La complexité de la gestion des ressources dans un contexte de fragilité de l’État : une analyse du secteur minier dans l’arrière-pays du Kivu
- Filip Hilgert, Ken Matthysen, Steven Spittaels | 30 novembre 2010
Le rapport intitulé « Exploitation minière et commerce des minerais dans l’arrière-pays du Kivu » est une commande de la Direction générale du développement (DG Développement) de la Commission européenne. Il vise à combler un manque informationnel en identifiant les principaux sites miniers et en analysant les réseaux d’échanges commerciaux de l’arrière-pays de l’est de la République démocratique
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Cartographie des motivations derrières les conflict: ‘Province Orientale’ (RDC)
- Filip Hilgert, Steven Spittaels | 25 mars 2010
Les districts de l’Ituri, du Haut-Uele et du Bas-Uele ainsi que le territoire de Bafwasende continuent de souffrir de la présence de groupes armés. De manière générale, la puissance des groupes armés dans la province Orientale est limitée, et leurs effectifs ne sont pas nombreux. De plus, il y a une présence considérable de l’armée congolaise. Les deux districts de l’Uele se situent au nord de la
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Note accompagnatrice de la carte interactive des zones minières militarisées au Kivu
- Filip Hilgert, Steven Spittaels | 12 août 2009
La carte MiMiKi constitue une première tentative systématique de jeter un éclairage sur la question des profits tirés par des groupes armés du secteur de l’industrie extractive à l’est de la RD Congo1. On a beaucoup dit et écrit à ce sujet tant dans la presse que dans des rapports compréhensifs2. Cependant, on dispose de peu de connaissances systématiques de la situation sur le terrain. Face aux a
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Le plan STAREC du gouvernement congolais: une analyse préliminaire
- Raf Custers | 8 août 2009
Début juillet le gouvernement congolais a établi un plan de stabilisation pour l’Est de la RDC. L’initiative est restée sans écho dans les médias et le plan même n’a pas été rendu public. Néanmoins, après quelques recherches, IPIS à pu obtenir le document. Nous avons jugé que, dans le cadre des efforts congolais et internationaux pour résoudre la crise dans l’Est, il serait utile de résumer les po
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Africa’s natural resources in a global context
- Ken Matthysen, Raf Custers | 6 août 2009
While, on the one hand, it is widely acknowledged that Africa has great natural resource potential, on the other hand, one cannot but regret that the complex interplay between political and economic factors at the national and international level appears to make it impossible to use a more substantial part of the revenues from the exploitation and trade of these resources for the promotion of the
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The impact of the global financial crisis on mining in Katanga
- Jeroen Cuvelier | 17 juillet 2009
This report examines the impact of the global financial crisis on the mining sector in Katanga, the southeast province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As far as the industrial mining sector is concerned, it is shown that the crisis exacerbated the uncertainty of mining companies that were waiting for the results of the review of the mining contracts and that were often in the middle of st
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Culprits or scapegoats? Revisiting the role of Belgian mineral traders in eastern DRC
- Didier Verbruggen, Jeroen Cuvelier, Raf Custers | 17 mai 2009
Ever since the eruption of the second Congo war in August 1998, the mining sector in eastern DRC has been under scrutiny of UN Sanctions Committees, academics, NGOs, and local and international media, who have been worried and disturbed by the links between natural resource exploitation and armed conflict in the region. It has been argued that both state and non-state armed actors are deriving ben