Silver, gold and diamonds. These three commodities were and still are the starting points for several gold rushes, regional conflicts and wars. People and their style of living in developed countries in Europe or in North America is much different than for example life of people in Africa. Africa can be considered as jewelry of the world, because the most valuable and the most beautiful diamonds were found right there. And if such a diamond is found, poor people, who are under the command of powerful armies, has no profit of  the precious stone.

Did you ever think about where was your diamond wedding ring made and where is the original “birth place” of the diamond, which shines on your finger? Diamonds and their value causes in many countries several conflicts and wars. In the past, many of found diamonds, originally from Africa, were coming to the European market. Price of the diamond was in transferred sense additional supply for African armies and their continuous terror on ordinary people, to make them search for more diamonds.

For above mentioned reasons, in 2003 there was established so-called Kimberley Process. It is a special system of warranties that the particular diamond does not come from the countries, in which are some known diamond conflicts. Precious stones are after approval marked as Conflict-free diamonds. Kimberley Process system also requires to issue for each conflict-free diamond a special certificate of originality, place of origin, and some additional necessary information about the concrete jewel. System of Kimberley Process is well-worker and it is very hard to get round the system. In trading are involved only companies with warranty declarations and purchasing of precious stones is done only from reliable sources. Unknown suppliers are not included in the system.

To buy conflict-free diamonds basically means to not support African armies and terrorizing their inhabitants. If you would like to buy a diamond wedding rings, always ask about the certificate for the diamond. Each serious jewelry store has to present some information about the origin of the diamond. If there is no certificate, there is no warranty that the precious stone is conflict-free diamond.

Nowadays, it should be essential to buy all products from reliable producers. And also according to diamonds, there are many serious companies, which are reliable, transparent, they are selling only ethically obtained diamonds, and they are very careful about their origin. Protection of human rights, improving the environmental protection in Africa, fair trade principles, or traceability. All of these features can be ensured by purchasing conflict-free diamonds only. Do not be a supporter of diamond conflicts and try to contribute to war-free Africa.

To sum up, if you are really interested into purchasing of some wedding diamond rings, make sure that by buying you will receive relevant information from the purchaser. Make sure that he or she will be also able to answer your questions of where was the diamond mined and polished, and finally make sure that you will also receive the certificate of origin of the diamond.