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From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process

How NGOs Cleaned Up the Global Diamond Industry

By: Franziska Bieri

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From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process

How NGOs Cleaned Up the Global Diamond Industry

By: Franziska Bieri

In the late 1990s, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) focused world attention on the issue of conflict diamonds which funded wars, massive death, and refugee crises across Central and West Africa. Several governments, NGOs, and key industry players engaged in negotiations under the so-called Kimberley Process (KP). A voluntary global agreement came into effect leading to a substantial decline in illicit diamond trade. Despite its importance in international affairs, the KP remains understudied in academia. Franziska Bieri's book provides the first comprehensive account of the KP and is the first to reveal how NGOs have become critical actors in their own right, possessing the ability to directly influence policies and to participate in the decision making and the implementation of global agreements. In developing this argument, Bieri explains: why the NGO campaign to raise awareness was successful; why a rapid and comprehensive resolution on such a complex global problem was possible; how the tripartite negotiations between states, NGOs, and industry developed during the implementation of the agreement, which is an on-going process. Based on extensive personal interviews with prominent campaigners, leading bureaucrats, and industry officials, hundreds of KP publications, official UN documents, industry news, and NGO reports, this timely book allows for a much needed engagement in contemporary debates about the campaign against conflict diamonds, the Kimberley Process, and the themes defining today's global governance arena.

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Routledge

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1317132491

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9781317132493

The Transformative Potential of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain

Insights from Sustainability Certification Practices in Ghana

By: Franziska Ollendorf

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The Transformative Potential of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain

Insights from Sustainability Certification Practices in Ghana

By: Franziska Ollendorf

This book engages with the implications of an expanding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Transnational Corporations in their supply chains. Taking the case of a cocoa sustainability certification project in Ghana, the study examines the implementation process of such a transnational CSR intervention and its outcomes regarding the local governance and institutional environment of the cocoa sector in Ghana. The study deploys a theoretical framework based on Global Value Chain Analysis and a neo-Gramscian approach to Global Governance to assess transnational CSR as a concept and strategy that reflect power struggles in global production fields.

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316

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Springer Nature

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3658436689

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9783658436681

Wind Systems in the Dead Sea and Footprints in Seismic Records

By: Lott, Friederike Franziska

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Wind Systems in the Dead Sea and Footprints in Seismic Records

By: Lott, Friederike Franziska

Atmospheric processes, such as wind, impact the ground motion of the earth and have the potential to induce strong broad-band noise in seismological records. In order to quantify the influence of wind on ground motion velocity joint seismological and meteorological measurements were conducted at the Dead Sea.Results reveal a pronounced impact of wind on seismological records. A methodology is presented to account for the dependency of PSD of ground motion velocity on the horizontal wind field.

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270

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731505967

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9783731505969

Briefwechsel unter Einschluss des Briefwechsels von Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched: 1738-Juni 1739

By: Johann Christoph Gottsched,Franziska Menzel

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Briefwechsel unter Einschluss des Briefwechsels von Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched: 1738-Juni 1739

By: Johann Christoph Gottsched,Franziska Menzel

Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766) is considered to be one of the greatest scholars of the Early German Enlightenment. As a professor for poetics in Leipzig, he worked towards a reformation of the German language and a renaissance in German drama. His extensive correspondence and social contacts made him a 'European event' and his papers are being presented here in a standard edition: 25 volumes, approx. 6,000 letters to and from Gottsched, predominantly in German, are being published with a critical apparatus and an academic commentary. This edition is being published in co-operation with the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and edited by members of the academy. The edition is scheduled to be published over 25 years and offers an ideal addition to the multi-volume edition of Gottsched's works, already published by de Gruyter.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110258641

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Religious Institutes and Catholic Culture in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe

By: Urs Altermatt,Jan De Maeyer,Franziska Metzger

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Religious Institutes and Catholic Culture in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe

By: Urs Altermatt,Jan De Maeyer,Franziska Metzger

A broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in social and cultural practices This volume examines the cultural contribution of religious institutes, men and women religious, and their role in the constitution of Catholic communities of communication in different European countries (England, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Low Countries, the Nordic Countries, Switzerland). The articles focus on social and cultural history by comparing both discourses and cultural and social practices, as well as examining international networks and cultural transference. How did religious institutes function as cultural elites in the production and mediation of knowledge, ideologies, cultural codes, and practices? What kind of discursive and operational strategies did they use to help construct and propagate social Catholicism, ultramontanism, and confessionalism, and to establish and promote the Catholic communication system? What were the central mechanisms in the production of knowledge and how were they incorporated within identity politics? The volume also takes a broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in the production and propagation of religious, cultural, and social practices, and in the socialisation of the Catholic population. The focus is on cultural practices, on the transmission and transformation of attitudes, and on the rites and customs in everyday religious and social practices.

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Leuven University Press

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9462700001

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9789462700000

Book's by Franziska Metzger

From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process

From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process

The Transformative Potential of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain

The Transformative Potential of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain

Wind Systems in the Dead Sea and Footprints in Seismic Records

Wind Systems in the Dead Sea and Footprints in Seismic Records

Briefwechsel unter Einschluss des Briefwechsels von Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched: 1738-Juni 1739

Briefwechsel unter Einschluss des Briefwechsels von Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched: 1738-Juni 1739

Religious Institutes and Catholic Culture in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe

Religious Institutes and Catholic Culture in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe

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