Designing a Smart Regulation : the Case of Conflict Minerals in the African Great Lakes Region

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イノクチ, アヤコ

Inokuchi, Ayako

紛争鉱物

conflict minerals

trade regulation

This research note is a result of a project “Outsourcing of Labour and Human Rights –a Role of Academia–” which was funded by 2016 Grant-in-Aid for Education and Research from the Cross-Boundary Innovation Program of Osaka University. The project aimed to suggest a new trade regulation which balances effectiveness and humanitarian considerations such as protection of labourer’s livelihoods, taking minerals regulation in the African Great Lakes Region as a case. Bibliographic survey and interviews in Rwanda were conducted. The paper focuses on the influence of the dynamics of global conflict minerals regulation on Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Rwanda and describes its process. This paper also takes a close look at the US Dodd-Frank Act 2010 that brought the biggest impact on these two countries among a series of conflict minerals regulations, and points out the importance of a local context of these countries in designing regulations.