This is a presentation for members of STAND to use when presenting about the conflict free campus initiative at the university of delaware

2. The Democratic Republic of Congo
• According to the International
Rescue Committee, “Congo is
the world’s least developed
country in terms of life
expectancy, education,
standard of living and key
health indicators, like maternal
and child mortality.”
• The ethnic and political
violence of the Second Congo
War, which ended in 2003,
resonates today as the DRC as a
result of continued dispute
over conflict minerals.

3. What is a CONFLICT-FREE CAMPUS?
A campus that does
not indirectly
support an
A campus that oppressive regime
supports
companies’ efforts A campus that is
not complicit in
to clean their the oppression of
supply chain of women
conflict minerals A campus that does
from the DRC not ignore the
impact it can make
on the live of
millions of
Congolese

4. Armed Forces
• Armed groups use violence to achieve
political, ideological, and economic
dominance.
• They are not sponsored by the DRC’s state
government.
• They include:
– Rebel movements (i.e. M23 and LRA)
– Ethnic militias (i.e. Mai Mai Militias)
– Economic & Military entrepreneurs (i.e. CNDP)

5. Violence Against Women
• Armed group use rape as a weapon of
submission, systematically defining sexual
violence as acceptable not only in war but in
civilian life.
• 1100 Women are raped every day.
• Access to medical and psychological help is
limited as a result of negative perceptions
surrounding rape victims.

6. Impact on the Congolese
• The DRC is the most impoverished country in
the world, with the average citizen earning
only $400 annually.
• The International Rescue Committee
estimates over 3 million deaths have
occurred due to violence since 1998.
• Armed groups control mineral mines to fund
their violence. They staff these mines by
enslaving men, women, and children.

7. What are the CONFLICT MINERALS?
GOLD, TIN, TANTALUM,
AND TUNGSTEN

8. What are they used for?
• Electronics Products!
– Tungsten- used in light bulb filaments and heating
elements
– Tin- used to connect elements in circuit boards of
laptops and cell phones
– Tantalum- used for capacitors and resistors in cells
phones. “The smarter your phone
is the more Tantalum it has.
– Gold- used in coating and wiring electronic
connections

9. What does the Conflict-Free
Campus Initiative do?
We are going to ask the University’s
Board of Trustees to pressure the
companies that we, as a college, do
business with to stop taking minerals
from conflict mines in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.

10. What can you do to
STOP THE VIOLENCE?
•Sign and encourage your friends to
sign our petition!
•Photograph your friends with a “I
support a conflict-free campus” sheet
and send it to us!
•Be informed! Ask us questions or go
to:
www.raisehopeforcongo.org
enoughproject.org
•Like us at Conflict Free at UD on
Facebook and follow @UDSTAND on
Twitter

11. THANKS FOR LISTENING!

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