| Consuming the Congo War and Confict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place July 1, 2011 |
If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans, (Red Crane,1994) "Eichstaedt offers a well-documented, emotional account of the plight of the Navajos..." --Library Journal . |
| Journalism |
| Co-author:Bucharest Express, an award-winning feature film about horrors of trafficking in women and illegal prescription drugs in eastern Europe. |
| On the border of South Sudan and the DR Congo. Photo: Matt Brown |
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| Peter Eichstaedt |
“Peter Eichstaedt’s Consuming the Congo is a comprehensive and thorough exposure of brutality that
has not been equaled since the genocide in Rwanda. . . . The book is a tour de force of reporting.”
-Andrew Rosenbaum, New York Journal of Books, July 30, 2011lw
"Consuming the Congo is a powerful and long-overdue expose of greed and violence in the battle over
Africa’s mineral wealth. “Conflict minerals” exploited by a complex patchwork of armed opportunists
— and bought by foreign companies and governments — deserve the same sort of attention focused
on “conflict diamonds” during the past decade. This is a harrowing and important work that shows yet
again that far-flung conflicts touch closer to home that we may imagine."
--Greg Campbell,
author of Blood Diamonds; Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
and other books
"An exceptional book that opens up the complicated and brutal reality of life in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo."
--Sarnata Reynolds, Advocacy and Policy Director, Refugee and Migrants Rights, Amnesty
International USA
has not been equaled since the genocide in Rwanda. . . . The book is a tour de force of reporting.”
-Andrew Rosenbaum, New York Journal of Books, July 30, 2011lw
"Consuming the Congo is a powerful and long-overdue expose of greed and violence in the battle over
Africa’s mineral wealth. “Conflict minerals” exploited by a complex patchwork of armed opportunists
— and bought by foreign companies and governments — deserve the same sort of attention focused
on “conflict diamonds” during the past decade. This is a harrowing and important work that shows yet
again that far-flung conflicts touch closer to home that we may imagine."
--Greg Campbell,
author of Blood Diamonds; Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
and other books
"An exceptional book that opens up the complicated and brutal reality of life in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo."
--Sarnata Reynolds, Advocacy and Policy Director, Refugee and Migrants Rights, Amnesty
International USA
| What's being said about Consuming the Congo |
| Books |
| "You must read this powerful book. This story calls out to our very humanity." --Archbishop Desmond Tutu "A compelling look at a little-known African war, driven by a mad man, kept alive by bloody regional politics and the apathy of the wider world..." --Doug Farah, author of Merchant of Death |
| "Exhilarating, exhaustive, and written with a passion for a troubled land." --Rob Crilly, author of Saving Darfur "Pirate State disentagles the complex web of greed, extremism, and sheer desperation that manifests itself in the increasingly bold attacks by Somali pirates..." Dr. J. Peter Pham, National Committee on American Foreign Policy |
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