Government, development & state fragility Archives

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

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Sasha Jesperson

Consultant

...Sasha has an extensive track record of working with a range of government departments and institutions to deliver technical advice, research and programming on migration, modern slavery, border manage...

Posted on 08 Mar 2019

SA-Obs

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

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JIED

Understanding the Development Implications of Illicit Economies

... LSE and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime published the first issue of the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED) in January 2019. The open-source journal aims ...

Posted on 07 Mar 2019

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

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Tim Morris

Executive Director Police Services, Interpol

...Tim has been a professional law enforcement officer since 1983. With periods served both with customs and with MasterCard Tim has spent the overwhelming majority of his career with the Australian Fede...

Posted on 27 Feb 2019

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Scott Harris

Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of State

...Scott Harris is a Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). Over the course of his 20-year career in INL, Mr. Harris has s...

Posted on 26 Feb 2019

UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

When the peacekeepers are part of the problem

... The latest edition of the UNODC’s Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is arguably more telling in what it omits than what it includes. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) recentl...

Posted on 26 Feb 2019

Author(s): Thi Hoang

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Alan Bersin

Senior Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; Global Fellow, Wilson Center

...Since leaving public service in January 2017, Alan Bersin has served at the global law firm of Covington & Burling as a Senior Advisor to the Firm; as an Inaugural Senior Fellow in the Homeland Se...

Posted on 25 Feb 2019

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