Drug Policy

Drug Policy Reform: Opportunity or a Threat to International Security?

...As part of Geneva Peace Week 2020, we have assembled an illustrious panel to debate the relationship between drug policy and international security....

Posted on 03 Nov 2020

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Ruth Dreifuss

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #2

Civil Society Observatory to counter organized crime in South Eastern Europe

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe Issue 2 October–November 2020 Summary highlights Busted Albanian cocaine network run from prison in Ecuador. On 17...

Posted on 02 Nov 2020

CAM-Obs, ESA-Obs, NAS-Obs, SEE-Obs

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Posted on 01 Nov 2020

Extortion in Central America, CAM-Obs

Extorsión En Centroamérica: Una Cultura Criminal – Casos de estudio

Extorsión En Centroamérica: Una Cultura Criminal

...In September 2019, to document local initiatives against extortion in Central America, the Coalitions for resilience project launched a call for papers for the Network of experts against extortion. As...

Posted on 29 Oct 2020

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

Gangs in lockdown – Impact of Covid-19 restrictions on gangs in east and southern Africa

Gangs in lockdown

...As the coronavirus pandemic began to infiltrate East and southern Africa, authorities across the region imposed unprecedented restrictions on the movement and freedoms of their citizens. As many obse...

Posted on 28 Oct 2020

Author(s): Julia Stanyard

JIED

Dr. John Collins: The Economics of Drug-trafficking

...On Tuesday the 27th of October, Room for Discussion had the honour to receive Dr. John Collins, Director of Academic Engagement at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime....

Posted on 27 Oct 2020

Author(s): John Collins

JIED, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Call for Papers: From the Local to the Transnational – Linkages in the North and Central American Drug Trades

...This journal special issue will advance the conversation on illicit drug markets in the Americas by fostering cross-fertilization among different methodologies and perspectives that have been previous...

Posted on 27 Oct 2020

Author(s): John Collins

Global Initiative

States on the Cusp: Overcoming illicit trade’s corrosive effects in Developing Economies

States on the Cusp

...This study is the culmination of two years’ work conducted by the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security in cooperation with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Orga...

Posted on 23 Oct 2020

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano, Simone Haysom, Peter Tinti

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

The 10th UN Conference of Parties to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

...The review mechanism to the UNTOC was launched at the 10th CoP in Vienna, but this significant milestone in the life of the convention was reached amid subdued media and wider interest, and a continui...

Posted on 23 Oct 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant