Global Initiative

Navigating the wildlife trade debate

...Wildlife commerce – legal and prohibited – sits at the nexus of trade, development, and the environment. Indeed, a key negative impact of wildlife trafficking is that it unsustainably strips count...

Posted on 18 Mar 2014

Global Initiative

Insecurity and violence in the post-2015 development agenda

...“One-and-a-half billion people live in areas affected by fragility, conflict, or large-scale, organized criminal violence, and no low-income fragile or conflict-affected country has yet to achieve a...

Posted on 17 Mar 2014

Global Initiative

Illicit Trade Flows: How to deal with the neglected economic and security threat

...Illicit trade flows generate massive costs for the EU, yet the countermeasures have been inadequate. A shortage of data, the tendency to look at different forms of illicit trade as separate phenomena,...

Posted on 12 Mar 2014

Crime Terror Nexus

GIN Interview: Louise Shelley, founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center

...Academic and author Louise Shelley was driven to create the Washington-based Terrorism, Transnational and Corruption Center (TraCCC)  in the mid-1990s because of her longstanding belief in the connec...

Posted on 09 Mar 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Analyzing Organized Crime – March 2014

...One of the main goals of the Global Initiative is to try and catalyze new strategic responses to transnational organized crime.  In doing so, we are making an effort to identify and assess existing...

Posted on 06 Mar 2014

Protecting Politics

Dirty cash for dirty trash

...Abajo la versión en español  “We’re polluting our own house and our own land. What are we going to drink?” “You idiot. We’ll drink mineral water.” Camorra Members discussing the dump...

Posted on 05 Mar 2014

RESPECT

Frankenstein reborn: the thriving trade in illicit organs

...Abajo la versión en español It is estimated that 2 million transplant operations are carried out each year.  Transplant lists grow longer year on year, and the percentage of successful matches mad...

Posted on 05 Mar 2014

Global Initiative

How to spot a rotten egg? Growing trends in food crime

...Food is rarely thought of as commodity susceptible to crime. We are often re-assured by branding and supermarkets that what we purchase is what is written on the label and it is derived from safe and ...

Posted on 05 Mar 2014

Author(s): Richard Byrne

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Wildlife Watch

Bounty hunters mobilized in the fight against wildlife crime

...In the first two months of 2014 we have witnessed the extraordinary momentum of political will being mobilized to fight against illegal wildlife trade.  Certainly the rhetoric to save some of the mos...

Posted on 05 Mar 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

It’s Always Sunny in Sinaloa

...Abajo la versión en español On Saturday, February 22nd, an elite force of Marines in the Mexican city of Mazatlan arrested El Chapo. Joaquin Guzmán-Loera, AKA El Chapo, is a key leader within the ...

Posted on 05 Mar 2014

Global Initiative

GIN Interview: Gavin Corn, Federal Prosecutor in FBI’s Cybercrime Taskforce

...Federal prosecutor on detail to FBI’s Cyber Task Force and founding member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime It’s hard to believe that Gavin Corn, a top federal pro...

Posted on 27 Feb 2014

Drug Policy

Methamphetamine: Fact vs Fiction and Lessons from the Crack Hysteria

...The purpose of this report is to provide a critical examination of the available evidence on illicit methamphetamine use and its consequences in the United States and internationally. It is the aim of...

Posted on 23 Feb 2014