The remaining conflicts, financed by drugs trafficking, are the longest-running wars in the world.
We found that support for war is contingent on how the conflict is financed.
"Unless you do it for money or as a sort of product, to do anything you don't absolutely, exactly want to do is just really stupid," Mr. Malkovich said, adding that time conflicts, financing difficulties and other obstacles had kept him from directing a half-dozen times over the last decade.
An informal "don't ask, don't tell" culture still prevails within many companies and supply chains, meaning legacies of violence or conflict-finance are soon lost and forgotten, and with them, the sense of ownership and responsibility that can bring change.
This regulation came as a result of concerns that the exploitation and trade of conflict minerals by armed groups was helping to finance conflict in the DRC region and contributing to its emergency humanitarian crisis.
The discussion in itself illustrated how far the two countries have traveled since 1989, when the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan after a decade of cold war conflict against Afghan warriors financed and armed by the United States.
Critics of Mr. Osorio, though, have said he misses a central reality of Colombia's conflict: the paramilitary militias, financed by the cocaine trade and wealthy Colombians as protection against the rebels, commit most of the killings in the country.
While the original version of "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" featured West as the sole performer, he decided to record a remix to the song which included guest verse provided by Jay-Z who had come out of retirement from rapping—after learning of the civil war in Sierra Leone financed by conflict diamonds.
In theory, said Alex Yearsley, a British campaigner, the Kimberley Process's definition of "conflict diamonds" as "rough diamonds used by rebel movements or their allies to finance conflict aimed at undermining legitimate governments" does not apply to Congo's lawlessness.
In its founding document "conflict diamonds" are described as "rough diamonds used by rebel movements or their allies to finance conflict aimed at undermining legitimate governments".
