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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s Conflict Diamonds: Buxwaha -Anish Tore

India’s Conflict Diamonds: Buxwaha -Anish Tore

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published Published on Jul 20, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 20, 2021

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A new ecological social contract may emerge if the Save Buxwaha Forest movement attains its objectives.

They say diamonds are forever. So is the ecological damage diamond mines cause, say environmental activists protesting against the proposed diamond mine in Madhya Pradesh’s Buxwaha forest. Blood or Conflict Diamonds is a term used for organised crime networks in African countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Angola etc, where the money from diamond smuggling is used to fund endless civil wars. A diamond mine in Buxwaha may generate another kind of conflict, one between man and nature.

The Buxwaha forest movement is different from earlier environmental struggles in some crucial ways:

Digital Environmentalism

Social movements now harness the power of social media to mobilise and amplify support. India Against Corruption movement demonstrated how social media can help mobilise people for public issues and influence government policy. But when it comes to mass support for environmental issues, there is a vacuum. Greta Thunberg’s #FridaysForFuture movement created an online buzz but has limited reach among schoolchildren, millennials and ecophiles. Moreover, it was big on slogans but fell short on specific demands. #StopClimateChange is a simple enough slogan to attract a mass audience but so vague that it allows governments to escape accountability. Movements are bound to fail if they are unable to produce actionable policy proposals.

This is not the case with the Save Buxwaha Forest movement. Hundreds of digital environmental activists have created a narrative with a single-point agenda: stop the proposed diamond mine project at Buxwaha. Hundreds of thousands have supported it and specifically demanded that the government scrap the mine. Specific demands place additional pressure on authorities, leaving the government less space to create ambiguity, manipulate the discourse and escape accountability.

In the eighties, Medha Patkar toured the country to generate support for the Narmada Bachao Andolan among non-tribal, non-project affected people who lived outside the Narmada Valley. Today, social media is available to connect the affected tribal communities in the Buxwaha forest with environmentalists across India. This is why digital solidarities could get created, forging social bonds that are otherwise difficult to construct.

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Newsclick.in, 20 July, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/India-Conflict-Diamonds-Buxwaha


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