DePaul University, an accredited university in Chicago, hosted Diamonds for Peace founder Chie Murakami as a featured guest speaker on 28th October 2019. Chie presented DFP’s work in Liberia to students in DePaul’s Climate Change course. Chie explained that there is a high level of environmental degradation associated with diamond…
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Greetings! Diamonds for Peace (DFP) publishes the newsletter “The Journey” to share the latest information, progress, plan and challenges with its supporters. I’m pleased to announce that we have published vol.2 last month. The digital version of The Journey is now available online. You can download it from: http://diamondsforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Journey2.pdf We’d…
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Founder and director of Diamonds for Peace (DFP), Chie Murakami, delivered a lecture on pursuing a global career at Tamagawa Gakuen High School on 14 February 2019 in Tokyo. The global career course invites practitioners working for international organization as guest speakers so that the high school students can…
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Chie Murakami, founder and director general of Diamonds for Peace (DFP) delivered a lecture titled “Sustainable Supply Chain of Diamonds to be Constructed by ALL” at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo on 10 January 2019. She started by saying that the engagement ring presented by her husband-to-be jolted her…
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Over the last few years, “blockchain” has been a buzz word in the world. People in Japan tend to think it as crypto currency like Bitcoin only. However, the blockchain is useful in many ways. What is blockchain technology? “The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that…
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Diamonds for Peace (DFP) will develop many programs to alleviate artisanal diamond miners and diggers poverty by introducing fair-trade diamond principles internationally. Our plan of developing and conducting experimentally the first program, the team building training program has been accepted and awarded by The Body Shop Japan Fund. The aim…
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The board members and volunteers of Diamonds for Peace worked on a survey on the awareness of Japanese consumers and diamond retail companies on the issues of diamonds. The English version of the report is released. The purpose of the survey is to discover the level of understanding of the…
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Greetings! Diamonds for Peace (DFP) will publish the newsletter “The Journey” biannually to share the latest information, progress, plan and challenges with its supporters. I’m pleased to announce that we have just published vol.1. The title “The Journey” has two meanings for us. The first is the journey of our…
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Chie Murakami and Tomone Kawai, the Director General and the Deputy Director General for Diamonds for Peace, participated in the Panasonic NPO Support Fund for Africa Award Ceremony held at Panasonic center in Tokyo on 24th January 2018. In the morning, we participated in presentations of progress reports by NPOs…
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Hello. I am Hanae, a board member of Diamonds for Peace. Currently, I am in Myanmar. I have been coming to Myanmar for my job since November 2014. This is my 7th visit to Myanmar. I am staying at Loikaw city in Kayah State, situated in the middle-eastern region of…
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