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Siria Gastelum Felix

Resilience Director, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

...Siria Gastelum is the Director of Resilience at the Global Initiative. Siria started documenting community responses to organized crime in her own native state of Sinaloa, Mexico where she launched the #GIResilience Project in 2017. The #GIResilience Project was selected to be presented during the 2018 UN General Assembly in New York at the UN Solutions Summit. And, in 2019,...

Posted on 09 Jan 2018
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Latinoamérica y el Caribe

#GIresilience Project Geneva Launch

...bled by ordinary people. More about the Resilience Project In 2017, the GI published its first edition of the Resilience Series, a collection of case studies on community resilience in Sinaloa, Mexico. Located in the Pacific coast and in close proximity to the United States, Sinaloa is only one example of what is also evident in others parts of the world where drug violence has persisted for years...

Posted on 20 Nov 2017
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Zulia Orozco Reynoso

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

...e, violence, and anti-money laundering in the Mexican real estate sector. She is currently researching the urban and economical effects of kidnapping and disappearances in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico. Besides holding a Ph.D. in Urban Studies, a Master of Law, and a Bachelors degree in Sociology, she has a sharp and extended experience in fieldwork in Mexico, but particularly in Tijuana where she ...

Posted on 15 Nov 2017
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Vanda Felbab-Brown

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution

...eats, including insurgency, organized crime, urban violence and illicit economies. Her fieldwork and research have covered, among others, Afghanistan, South Asia, Burma, Indonesia, the Andean region, Mexico, Morocco, Somalia, and eastern Africa. Felbab-Brown is the author of “Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan” (Brookings Insti...

Posted on 15 Nov 2017
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Saidi Ally Mwema

Inspector General (retired), Tanzanian Police, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

... and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), Tokyo, Japan (2001), and an Advanced Management course, International Law Enforcement Academy, Roswell New Mexico, USA (2002). Mr. Mwema obtained a Bachelors of Law Degree (Hons) from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1988....

Posted on 15 Nov 2017
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Rolando Ochoa

Lecturer, Macquarie University

...olando Ochoa holds a PhD in Sociology and an MPhil in Latin American Studies, both from the University of Oxford, UK. He has carried out research on the history and political economy of kidnapping in Mexico, as well as the impact of organized crime on fragile states. He has also focused on how how individuals solve issues of trust and reputation in contexts of weak rule of law and inside criminal organi...

Posted on 15 Nov 2017
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Robert Muggah

Co-founder & Research Director, Igarapé Institute/ Research Director, SecDev Foundation

...rican Development Bank, the United Nations and the World Bank on issues of public security and aid policy. He also oversees projects with research centers from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Haiti, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, the UK and the US on urban violence, resilience, peace support operations, organized crime and digital humanitarianism, and cyber-warfare. In addition to co-foundi...

Posted on 15 Nov 2017
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Rob McCusker

Transnational Crime Director, Vigilance Group

...gates from developed and developing nations on developing and enhancing their countries’ anti-corruption strategies. Countries advised thus far include Gambia, Somalia, Bulgaria, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Serbia, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates....

Posted on 15 Nov 2017
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Quinn Sandor Kepes

Senior Program Director, Verité

...tuna, illegal fishing), and garment sectors. Mr. Kepes has researched the links between organized crime and human rights abuses for Verité and other organizations. Mr. Kepes is currently based in Mexico and lived in Guatemala for six years, where he worked with civil society initiatives and oversaw field research. In Guatemala, Mr. Kepes obtained a graduate degree in Human Rights and Political Parti...

Posted on 14 Nov 2017
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Phil Williams

Wesley W. Posvar Professor and Director of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh

...e protection. Dr. Williams has worked extensively on transnational criminal networks, terrorist networks, terrorist finances, and has focused most recently on the rise of drug trafficking violence in Mexico. He has published extensively in the field of international security. He has written many books on the field of international security including: Crisis Management (1976); The Senate and U.S. Troo...

Posted on 14 Nov 2017
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Moisés Naím

Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

...RC Books.  Naím, Moisés & Tulchin, Joseph (1999). Competition Policy, Deregulation and Modernization in Latin America. Lynne Rienner Publishers. Naím, Moisés & Edwards, Sebastian (1998). Mexico 1994: Anatomy of an Emerging-Market Crash. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Naím, Moisés & Hale, et al (1995). Is the Atlantic Widening? Atlantic Area Nations After the Cold War: Pa...

Posted on 14 Nov 2017
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María de la Luz Lima Malvido

Professor of Victimology at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales (National Institute for Crime Sciences)

...009). María has led police forces in México, Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras. And she is a professor and lecturer at different MScs in majors such as criminology, victimology, and prison law in Mexico, and guest professor at different universities in Argentina, Honduras Colombia, Santo Domingo, Croatia, and other countries She was a Sexual Offenses and Kidnapping Prosecutor. In 2001 she was the...

Posted on 14 Nov 2017
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