Government, development & state fragility Archives

Assassination Witness

Silencing the witnesses

...On 15 July 2021, investigative reporter and crime journalist Peter R. de Vries was shot multiple times after leaving the TV studio in Amsterdam where he appeared as a regular guest on a talk show. ...

Posted on 04 Feb 2022

Crime & Conflict, Crime Terror Nexus, NAS-Obs, WEA-Obs

Whose crime is it anyway? Organized crime and international stabilization efforts in Mali

Whose crime is it anyway?

...Since 2013, the Republic of Mali has become a focal point of international efforts to stabilize the Sahel region through a mix of direct military intervention, security assistance, development aid and...

Posted on 03 Feb 2022

Author(s): Peter Tinti

APA-Obs, SA-Obs

Disrupting abalone harms: Illicit flows of H. midae from South Africa to East Asia

Disrupting abalone harms

...Abalone, a variety of marine snail, is valued as a high-status delicacy in East Asia, primarily in China. For more than 30 years, a species of abalone found only in South African waters – Haliotis m...

Posted on 02 Feb 2022

Author(s): Kimon de Greef, Simone Haysom

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Part of the landscape

...Latin America is widely known to be home to some of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world, but the region's criminal ecosystem is dominated by state-embedded actors, many of whom prote...

Posted on 28 Jan 2022

Author(s): Josefina Salomón

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Josefina Salomón

...Josefina Salomón is a journalist and researcher specialized in human rights, social justice, organized crime and security issues in the Americas. Over the last two decades, she has travelled across L...

Posted on 28 Jan 2022

UN Cyberwatch, UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

Trouble loading: UN cybercrime negotiations delayed

...Scheduled January debates on a global cybercrime treaty have been postponed in the wake of the Omicron wave. Despite Russia's push to hold the meetings as soon as possible, the country has once again ...

Posted on 27 Jan 2022

Author(s): Summer Walker

22 Mar

Crime & Conflict, Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch, AR-Obs, CAM-Obs, ESA-Obs, NAS-Obs

Illicit economies and armed conflict: Ten dynamics that drive instability

Illicit economies and armed conflict

...The relationship between illicit economies, conflict and instability has been long debated in academic and practitioner circles, and part of the international policy agenda for some time. From the dia...

Posted on 27 Jan 2022

Author(s): Summer Walker, Mariana Botero Restrepo

01 Feb

IASOC

IASOC Annual Prizes 2022

...The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime is dedicated to advancing the study of organized crime and illegal enterprise. We are a network of academics, professionals and students,...

Posted on 27 Jan 2022

26 Jan

SEE-Obs

Illicit financial flows in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia

...Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are the lifeblood of crime and corruption. Each year, millions of Euros of IFFs flow through the Western Balkans, despite significant government efforts to prevent this ...

Posted on 17 Jan 2022

Author(s): Kristina Amerhauser, Robin Cartwright

19 Jan

Resilience Fund

End extortion now

...The Resilience Fund’s annual Fellowship builds a platform for cross-sectoral, global and interdisciplinary collaboration between key actors working to counter the effects of organized crime. Focusi...

Posted on 13 Jan 2022

Global Organized Crime Index

Uprooting state credibility in Bulgaria’s logging sector

...Illegal logging ranks among the most serious criminal markets in Bulgaria, a multimillion-dollar industry that allegedly involves officials and businesspeople in the country's highest echelons of powe...

Posted on 13 Jan 2022

Author(s): Kosyo Ivanov

NAS-Obs

Losing hope: Why Tunisians are leading the surge in irregular migration to Europe

...Between 2020 and mid-2021, migration from and through Tunisia rose to levels not seen since the months following the 2011 revolution. The reasons for this surge are complex, with no single factor res...

Posted on 05 Jan 2022

Author(s): Matt Herbert

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