On 4 October, PhD researcher Jose Alice Diemel, successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled 'Mining Reform, Governance and the State in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The traces ‘'conflict-mineral'’ policy left behind on natural resource governance in Katanga'
In her thesis, Jose dealt with the effects of conflict-mineral reform interventions implemented throughout Congo’s tin, tantalum and tungsten (3T) mineral areas over the last eight years.
Photos of the public defence
Photos taken during the public defence