Conflict-free diamonds ensure that the consumer is contributing to moral diamond purchasing, which positively impacts the ethical side of the diamond mining industry. Blood diamonds have helped to bring the issues surrounding ethical diamond sourcing to the forefront of the consumer’s mind by giving diamond miners in warzone areas a voice. Buffering procedures like the Kimberley Process ensure that each shipment of diamonds is directly traceable to an ethical source and not contributing to the invading of armies or warlords.
The Kimberley Process began in 2010 and was set up by several diamond-producing states in Southern Africa, who subsequently came together to discuss and target ways of combating the trading of blood diamonds. Engagement rings created by manufacturers who are part of the Kimberley Process have no involvement in financing violence by rebel movements and their allies involved in the diamond trading industry.