Crime Terror Nexus

East Africa: Organized crime and terrorism

...In East Africa, three spheres co-exist – informal economies, organized-crime networks and terror groups. We need a better understanding of how they may be enmeshed, as well as what separates them. ...

Posted on 08 Aug 2018

Author(s): Peter Tinti

Wildlife Watch

In Plane Sight: Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector

...In Plane Sight examines wildlife trafficking through the air transport sector by analyzing nine years' worth of open source seizure information, and is intended to provide an update on wildlife traffi...

Posted on 06 Aug 2018

Wildlife Watch

Ending wildlife trafficking

Ending wildlife trafficking

...A large number of anti-poaching, conservation and management measures have been implemented to protect rhinos. None of these responses has achieved tangible results in lowering unnatural rhino deaths ...

Posted on 06 Aug 2018

Author(s): Annette Hübschle

UN-TOC Watch

Arms Trade Treaty

...Sarah Parker, policy support officer for the Arms Trade Treaty, speaks to the Global Initiative about the impact of the ATT, its complementarity with other weapons instruments and the international re...

Posted on 02 Aug 2018

Author(s): Sarah Parker

UN-TOC Watch

AI, cybercrime and the UN

...The UN should follow the secretary general’s lead on artificial intelligence and cybercrime. There is no doubt that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday life. In the public ...

Posted on 24 Jul 2018

Author(s): Summer Walker

MMFU

Legal challenges to preventing IWT online

Catch me if you can

...Although illicit internet trade falls into the larger universe of cybercrime, it is better described as a cyber-enabled crime – in other words, a traditional crime that uses new technologies with th...

Posted on 19 Jul 2018

Author(s): James Wingard, Maria Pascual