Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Analyzing Organized Crime – November 2013

Analyzing Organized Crime - November 2013

...This November, the Analyzing Organized Crime brief of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized crime highlights a diverse series of criminal flows and their impacts on human security. ...

Posted on 06 Dec 2013

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, RESPECT, AMA-Obs

Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Amazon. The Cases of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Suriname

... This publication is a result from the GOMIAM project, an ambitious research project building on the comparison of small-scale gold mining in five different Amazon countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colom...

Posted on 05 Dec 2013

Crime Terror Nexus

Tunisia’s Borders: Jihadism and Contraband

...Executive summary Tunisia is embroiled in recurrent political crises whose origins in security concerns are ever more evident. While still of low-intensity, jihadi attacks are increasing at an alarmi...

Posted on 28 Nov 2013

Protecting Politics

Profits and Losses: is control over criminal resources motivating militia violence in Libya?

...Abajo la versión en español In November, the Libyan cities of Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata saw violent clashes between militia groups, leaving hundreds dead and many seriously wounded. Internation...

Posted on 27 Nov 2013

Private Sector

Global profiles of the fraudster

...Fraud specialists have long debated whether it is possible to develop a profile of a fraudster that is accurate enough to enable organizations to catch people in the act of fraud or even beforehand. T...

Posted on 14 Nov 2013

Global Initiative

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief – October 2013

Analyzing Organized Crime Blog- October 2013

...This October, the sting was used to great effect to capture an infamous Somali pirate, to entrap the man behind the infamous online marketplace for illicit goods, the Silk Road.  In another intere...

Posted on 06 Nov 2013

Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

Negotiating with Criminals: a sound strategy to counter organized crime?

...The recent launch of the Global Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime, held in New York on 19 September, featured a debate on how organized crime contributed to state fragility, and undermine...

Posted on 25 Oct 2013

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

Making crime pay – the development role of gangsters

...A precarious gang truce brokered in 2011 in El Salvador has many crime experts wondering whether “talking to criminals” in other places could reduce criminal violence and help gangsters - and the ...

Posted on 25 Oct 2013

Drug Policy

Governing the Global Drug Wars

...International drug control efforts began in 1909, with the aim of eradicating the abuse of certain drugs by controlling their supply. A complex international system of enforcement grew up based on thi...

Posted on 20 Oct 2013

Protecting Politics, WEA-Obs

Criminal accumulation into the governance vacuum in Guinea Bissau

...The long overdue legislative and presidential elections in Guinea Bissau that had been scheduled for the 24th November, have now been indefinitely postponed. Delays in agreeing a way forward on voter ...

Posted on 09 Oct 2013

Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics, Wildlife Watch

Criminal accumulation into the governance vacuum in Guinea Bissau

...The long overdue legislative and presidential elections in Guinea Bissau that had been scheduled for the 24th November, have now been indefinitely postponed.  Delays in agreeing a way forward on vote...

Posted on 06 Oct 2013

Global Initiative

Angels, Outlaws, and Mongols

...The Mongols have invaded Australia.  In the middle of 2013, the Mongols, an infamous outlaw motorcycle gang (OMG) from the U.S. absorbed a local Australian motorcycle gang, giving them chapters throu...

Posted on 06 Oct 2013

Author(s): Matt Herbert