Crime & Conflict, Development Dialogue

Dialogue on Organized Crime and Development

Dialogue on Organized Crime and Development

... The Development Dialogue has been convened regularly by the Global Initiative and several key donor partners since 2013. The initiative brings together leading development and research organizations ...

Posted on 21 Mar 2019

Drug Policy, WEA-Obs

The second coming of West Africa’s cocaine trade?

... A large seizure of cocaine in Guinea-Bissau, the first in over a decade in that country, opens up speculation as to the West African country’s role in the regional drug trade. On 9 Ma...

Posted on 18 Mar 2019

Author(s): Alexandre Bish

UN-TOC Watch

Drugs and the UN: What will the next 10 years bring?

... Mexico’s Ambassador Alicia Buenrostro Massieu, former chair of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, sets the tone for the next decade of drug policy at the UN. On 14–15 March, the UN’s Commi...

Posted on 12 Mar 2019

Author(s): Summer Walker

Global Initiative

Policing for Sustainable Development Goals

... In February, Scholars’ Press published Policing for Sustainable Development Goals, two of the co-authors of which are Global Initiative senior advisors Ugljesa Ugi Zvekic and John Sellar. ...

Posted on 12 Mar 2019

Author(s): Ugljesa (Ugi) Zvekic, John M. Sellar OBE

Drug Policy

Legalization of cannabis: What’s the deal with the dealers?

... The creeping legalization of cannabis may have several undesired, uncertain and unforeseen consequences. Not least is the question of how a market disrupted by decriminalization will impact the deale...

Posted on 11 Mar 2019

Author(s): Martin Joseph Gallagher

SA-Obs

The Illicit Tobacco Trade in Zimbabwe and South Africa

The Illicit Tobacco Trade in Zimbabwe and South Africa

... This groundbreaking study of the illicit tobacco trade in southern Africa explores how this trade supports organized crime, helps enable official corruption, and erodes state structures. A major feat...

Posted on 07 Mar 2019

Author(s): Simone Haysom

UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

Cyber-insecurities? A guide to the UN cybercrime debate

Cyber-insecurities?

... This brief focuses on cybercrime in an international context, exploring in particular why the United Nations is still trying to find its footing as an agenda-setting institution on countering cybe...

Posted on 04 Mar 2019

Author(s): Summer Walker

UN-TOC Watch

Organized Crime, SDG 16 and the High-Level Political Forum

... The adoption of target 16.4 was, in many ways, a watershed moment, as it decisively and unequivocally placed organized crime on the development agenda. It acknowledged the inter-relationship between ...

Posted on 28 Feb 2019

UN-TOC Watch, Wildlife Watch

Do we need a global agreement on wildlife crime?

... A recent article by former CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon calls for a debate on the way forward internationally in addressing organized wildlife crime in the absence of a global agreement or a ...

Posted on 28 Feb 2019

Author(s): John M. Sellar OBE