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Narin Sun

Field Coordinator - Cambodia, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Narin joined the GI-TOC in August as Field Coordinator in Cambodia. Prior to joining, he worked as a journalist covering investigative stories covering politics, elections, social issues, enterprise a...

Posted on 12 Aug 2025
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Mariana Martinez Cuellar

Economist, Institute for Defense Analyses

...Mariana Martínez Cuéllar is a security, defense, and justice policy specialist with over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of organized crime, citizen security, and institutional g...

Posted on 08 Aug 2025
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Oliver Gnad

Co-founder and managing director of the Bureau fuer Zeitgeschehen (Bureau of Current Affairs)

...Oliver Gnad is the co-founder and managing director of the Bureau fuer Zeitgeschehen (Bureau of Current Affairs), a Frankfurt-based think-and-do-tank specialized in strategic foresight and scenario pl...

Posted on 06 Aug 2025
21 Aug

Global Strategy, SEE-Obs

Danger ahead? Scenarios for the future of organized crime in the Western Balkans

Danger ahead?

...Organized crime in the Western Balkans is adaptive, complex and increasingly transnational. While law enforcement and policymakers address today’s challenges, criminal actors are already preparing f...

Posted on 06 Aug 2025

Author(s): Walter Kemp, Ioannis Vlassis, Oliver Gnad

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Jason G Tower

Senior Expert, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Jason G Tower is a senior expert at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), where he works on organized crime, security and illicit economies in Southeast Asia, with a pa...

Posted on 31 Jul 2025

ESA-Obs

Mapping organized criminal economies in East and Southern Africa

Mapping organized criminal economies

...East and Southern Africa (ESA) is a pivotal node for organized crime, connecting regional criminal markets to global networks. From the shores of Somalia to border crossings and international air and ...

Posted on 30 Jul 2025

EUR-Obs

An Archetypal drug market

...When Archetyp, one of the largest and oldest dark web drug markets, was dismantled in June 2025, the authorities framed it as a ‘severe blow’ to European organized crime. But as with previous take...

Posted on 30 Jul 2025

Author(s): Sarah Fares

29 Jul

WEA-Obs

Cattle rustling and insecurity: in the tri-border area between Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana

Cattle rustling and insecurity

...Cattle rustling is a major driver of conflict and instability in the Sahel and West Africa. The two groups posing the biggest threat in the Sahel are Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an ...

Posted on 29 Jul 2025
01 Oct

Global Strategy

Organised Crime and Security Policy: Understanding the Threat to Design Better Responses 2025

...Organised crime has become a threat to international peace and security. It fuels and benefits from conflict, it undermines development, it can capture governance, and it profits from the plunder of t...

Posted on 28 Jul 2025
29 Jul

SEE-Obs

Violent extremism and organized crime: Thematic series

Violent extremism and organized crime

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Posted on 28 Jul 2025

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro, Giorgio Fruscione, Sasa Djordjevic, Fabian Zhilla

Mesoamerican Working Group on Security and Democracy (MAWG), Protecting Politics, AR-Obs, CAM-Obs

Peace by design: Strong local institutions and governance are key to preventing violence and organized crime in cities

...Armed violence in our communities is a pervasive problem that has damaged public trust in institutions in countries ranging from El Salvador to Sweden. The impact of violence on people’s lives and o...

Posted on 25 Jul 2025

Author(s): Antônio Sampaio

WEA-Obs

Why the deadliest migration route in the world is becoming more popular

...On 1 July 2025, Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), the most powerful violent extremist organization in the Sahel, launched a series of coordinated attacks on seven towns along Mali’s borde...

Posted on 23 Jul 2025

Author(s): Flore Berger, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Mouhamadou Kane

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