Global Initiative

Investigation Of Money Laundering: an Institutional Approach

...The latest research by the Center for the Study of Democracy reveals that the annual revenue from organized criminal activities and corruption amounts to more than BGN 4 – 5 billion per year. This a...

Posted on 01 Jan 2010

Global Initiative

The transatlantic cocaine business – Europe’s options as it confronts new drug trafficking routes

...There is a new dimension to the cocaine trafficking bound for Europe, and this requires more attention. After a significant rise in recent years, it is now estimated that nearly 50 tonnes of cocaine p...

Posted on 24 Dec 2009

Global Initiative

The Impact of Drugs Trafficking, Corruption and Organized Crime

...Since 2005, the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) has conducted a research project on the subject of countering narcotics and organized crime in the Baltic Sea region. This project ...

Posted on 21 Dec 2009

Crime & Conflict

Addition, Crime and Insurgency: The transnational threat of Afghan opium

...In September, UNODC published its Afghan Opium Survey 2009 with detailed estimates of cultivation, production, labour force, revenues and domestic prices. This Report is a sort of a sequel: it pre...

Posted on 20 Dec 2009

Global Initiative

Countering Narcotics Smuggling in Europe’s Eastern Neighborhood

...Today, organized transnational criminality is more professional than ever before, and follows the trail of globalization. Much like other business activities, illegal activities are based on good mutu...

Posted on 20 Dec 2009

Global Initiative

World Drug Report 2009

...The end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909) coincided with the closing of the UNGASS decade (launched in 1998 by a General Assembly Special Session on Drugs). The...

Posted on 20 Dec 2009

Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Narco‐belligerents Across the Globe: Lessons from Colombia for Afghanistan?

...With the great increases in insecurity in Afghanistan and the overwhelming sense that the counter‐insurgency in Afghanistan is not being won, analysts and policymakers are looking for analogies to u...

Posted on 23 Oct 2009

Crime Terror Nexus, Protecting Politics

Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks

...Journalist, and member of the Global Initiative Board, Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the...

Posted on 18 Sep 2009

Global Initiative

How Opium Profits the Taliban

...In Afghanistan’s poppy-rich south and southwest, a raging insurgency intersects a thriving opium trade. This study examines how the Taliban profit from narcotics, probes how traffick- ers influence ...

Posted on 22 Aug 2009

Private Sector

FATF: Money Laundering through the Football Sector

...Criminals have shown adaptability in finding new channels to launder the proceeds of their illegal activities and sports is one of the many sectors that are at risk of being inflicted with criminal mo...

Posted on 12 Jul 2009

Global Initiative

A cannabis reader: global issues and local experiences

...Smoked, eaten, imbibed — or just talked about — it seems the world has a strong appetite for cannabis. An estimated one in five European adults have tried it. Thirteen million Europeans have cons...

Posted on 20 Dec 2008

Global Initiative

Illegal wood for the European market

Illegal wood for the European market

...Illegal logging is a pervasive problem of major international concern, as it leads to deforestation, one of the main causes for climate change. Illegal logging for international markets is often a fo...

Posted on 20 Dec 2008