Private Sector

Developments in Somali and South East Asian Piracy

...By Lucia Bird and Karsten von Hoesslin Introduction The ‘eradication’ of Somali piracy in 2012 was heralded as a key success story for international intervention, and the operational structure a...

Posted on 11 May 2017

Author(s): , Karsten von Hösslin

Global Initiative

Location, location, location: The settling of organised crime in Bedfordview

...Why do ‘crime bosses’ settle in one place and not another? It is an intriguing and under researched question on which little has been written. In South Africa a cluster of individuals associated w...

Posted on 08 May 2017

Global Initiative

Annual Report 2016

Annual Report 2016

...2016 was an important year for the organisation, consolidating our continued rapid expansion and extension of reach. With the Sustainable Development Goals now approved, including a target dedicated t...

Posted on 08 May 2017

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Wildlife Watch

Event: EU-LAC Expert Workshop

...EU-LAC: joining forces to address common security and development challenges Brussels, 24 - 25 April 2017 [gallery ids="20767,20766,20765,20764,20763,20762"] This event was held to take stock in ...

Posted on 05 May 2017

SA-Obs

“Getting angry with honest people”: How immigrants are pushed into illegality in South Africa

...Corrupt officials, a confusion about immigration practices, law and terms resulted in an illicit market that both suspends immigrants in temporary status and engages them in 'controlling processes' th...

Posted on 04 May 2017

Protecting Politics

How the crackdown in Turkey created a permissive environment for drug trafficking

...Abajo en Español The Turkish government’s recent crackdown on the country’s police, military, and judiciary has led to the emergence of a permissive environment for many kinds of smuggling, t...

Posted on 02 May 2017

Global Initiative

10 Biggest Cyber Crimes and Data Breaches to Date

...Cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated at picking our virtual pockets. And most of us remain woefully unprepared. According to a 2016 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, organization...

Posted on 28 Apr 2017

Development Dialogue, Resilience Fund, SA-Obs

Gangs, violence and the role of women and girls: Cape Town

Gangs, violence and the role of women and girls: Cape Town

...Gangs, violence and the role of women and girls: Emerging themes and policy and programme options drawn from interviews with female gang members in Cape Town (Global Initiative, April 2017) What do...

Posted on 26 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Event: GCSP Cyber Challenge

...The Global Initiative was honoured to participate in the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and Atlantic Council 2017 “Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge" as a judge on both days of the crisis simul...

Posted on 21 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Meet the Global Initiative Board 2017-2020

...[mk_page_section padding_top="0" padding_bottom="0" sidebar="custom_right"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are pleased to introduce the new Global Initiative Board, who were selected by the Global Initi...

Posted on 20 Apr 2017

RESPECT

Webinar: Law Enforcement and New Media Solutions

... Responsible and Ethical Private Sector Coalition against Trafficking’ Initiative Present in the framework of the Webinar Series THE PRIVATE SECTOR COUNTERING HUMAN TRAFFICKING: New technolog...

Posted on 20 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Event: Migrant Smuggling – Global and Comparative perspectives

...On April 5, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime participated in the 8th installment of the 2016-2017 Homeland Security Symposium Series, hosted by the Center for Law & Huma...

Posted on 19 Apr 2017