Unraveling Global Corporate Mining Today: Challenges to Mining Campaigners

Unraveling  Global  Corporate  Mining  Today:  Challenges  to  Mining  Campaigners  

The  Interna:onal  People’s  Conference  on  Mining  2015  

Catherine Coumans, Ph.D.

Unraveling  Global  Corporate  Mining  Today:  Challenges  to  Mining  Campaigners  

• New  and  emerging  challenges    

• New  strategies  by  industry,  and  its  supporters  

• Greater  effec:veness  through  joint  campaigning    

Unraveling  Global  Corporate  Mining  Today:  Challenges  to  Mining  Campaigners  

• Mines  Minerals  and  Sustainable  Development  (MMSD)  •  Rio  +  10  “mining  is  sustainable”  •  Interna:onal  Council  on  Mining  and  Metals  (ICMM)    •  Intergovernmental    Forum  on  Mining,  Minerals,  Metals  and  Sustainable  Development      

From  Resource  Curse  to    Resource  Endowment    

•   Growing  Literature  on  the  Resource  Curse  and  Dutch  Disease  

•   Increasing  cases  of  severe  human  rights  abuses  –  excessive  use  of  force  by  mine  security  (bea:ngs,  killings,  rape),  forced  reloca:ons,  criminaliza:on  of  dissent....  

“Mining for Development” or for Creating Deeper Long-Term

Development Deficits?  

Governance by voluntary standards and unaccountable trade tribunals    

John  Ruggie  and  Barrick  Gold    

Branding  doesn’t  dress  up  reality!  

World  Class  Disaster  in  2014  in  “Good  Governance”  Canada  

Mine, Mine, Mine, Yours

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