Crime & Conflict, UN - Security and Rights

Multilateral peace operations and the challenges of organised crime

...Multilateral peace operations are increasingly confronting a set of interrelated and mutually reinforcing security challenges that are relatively new to them, that do not respect borders, and that hav...

Posted on 21 Feb 2018

Development Dialogue, Gold Watch, Protecting Politics

IFFs: The Economy of Illicit Trade in West Africa

IFFs: The Economy of Illicit Trade in West Africa

...Africa is the world’s second fastest-growing economy after East Asia, and yet the continent is also home to the largest share of people living in extreme poverty, in countries with poor foundation...

Posted on 21 Feb 2018

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Mark Shaw, Marcena Hunter, Karl Lallerstedt, Rob McCusker

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

MS13 in the Americas: How the World’s Most Notorious Gang Defies Logic, Resists Destruction

...Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13, is one of the world’s largest and most violent street gangs. It is also one of the least understood, making it difficult for policymakers and law enforcement to confront. ...

Posted on 16 Feb 2018

Protecting Politics

Imagining the Future of Crime and Politics

...Organized crime networks dedicated to illicit trafficking of drugs, people and wildlife—as well as money laundering and cybercrime, among other activities—are engines of instability. From Latin...

Posted on 16 Feb 2018

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

The Resurgence of Violent Crime in Tijuana

...A new Justice in Mexico policy brief by Jaime Arredondo Sánchez Lira, Zulia Orozco, Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira, and David A. Shirk, entitled The Resurgence of Violent Crime in Tijuana, provides an a...

Posted on 15 Feb 2018

Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Placing violence at the centre: new paradigms for approaching organised crime in Tijuana

...Organised crime related deaths in Mexico reached record highs in 2017, according to the watchdog agency Semáforo Delictivo and Lantia Consultores and reporting from InSight Crime. In part, the rise i...

Posted on 15 Feb 2018

Author(s): Julia Stanyard