DRC: 'We Will Win Peace' - On 'Conflict Minerals', Humanitarian Advocacy and Congo

Jun 10, 2015 | African Arguments
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In 2010, the United States Congress passed the expansive sounding ‘Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act’. Its section 1502 contained a requirement which appeared revolutionary for how the West understood its complicity in perpetuating war and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This section required that companies reporting to the US Securities and Exchange Commission disclose their use of so called ‘conflict minerals’ originating in the DRC or an adjoining country. As expected for a documentary conceived of and directed by disillusioned aid workers with long experience in the Great Lakes region, ‘We Will Win Peace’ sets out to challenge this orthodox wisdom.