UN-TOC Watch

Guns, pirates and charcoal

...A report from the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group shows that Somalia remains a deeply fractured state, but doesn’t go far enough to suggest how to resolve the country’s underlying challenges....

Posted on 18 Dec 2018

Author(s): Katherine Petrich

Assassination Witness

Analyzing trends in targeted killings in Nigeria

Power, elitism and history

...This report analyzes the dynamics of targeted killings in the country using a specially designed dataset over the period 2000 to 2017. The report relays the highlights of this data through a d...

Posted on 13 Dec 2018

Author(s): Hilary Matfess

Global Initiative

Data bulletins: improving migration data to implement the global compact for migration

...IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre released an edited volume of the “Data Bulletin Series: Informing the Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration” ahead of the Intergovernment...

Posted on 07 Dec 2018

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Nina Kaysser

Resilience Fund

Learning from community responses to gangs in Cape Town

Being Resilient

...South Africa, which has long experienced an exceptionally high rate of violent crime, has seen a worrying increase in the murder rate in recent years. Cape Town, which has the highest murder rate of a...

Posted on 30 Nov 2018

Author(s): Kim Thomas

UN-TOC Watch, SEE-Obs

Rethinking organized-crime research in the Western Balkans

...At the conference of the European Society of Criminology, a panel hosted by the Global Initiative emphasized the need for criminological research to break out of its traditional approaches, and addres...

Posted on 29 Nov 2018

Author(s): Ugljesa (Ugi) Zvekic, Fabian Zhilla

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Life Under Gang Rule in El Salvador

...Nearly 20,000 Salvadorans were killed from 2014 to 2017. That’s more violent deaths than in several countries that were at war during those years, such as Libya, Somalia and Ukraine. The murder rate...

Posted on 26 Nov 2018

MMFU

Illicit wildlife markets and the dark web

Illicit wildlife markets and the dark web

...This brief gives an overview of the online illicit wildlife trade (IWT), and analyzes the current state of this market, and speculates on its likely developments. Although there is currently very lit...

Posted on 21 Nov 2018

Author(s): Felipe Thomaz

Gold Watch

Curbing Illicit Mercury and Gold Flows in West Africa

Curbing Illicit Mercury and Gold Flows in West Africa

...On 19 November, Senior Analyst Marcena Hunter presented the report Curbing Illicit Mercury and Gold Flows in West Africa: Options for a Regional Approach at a side event hosted by the UN Industrial De...

Posted on 20 Nov 2018

Author(s): Marcena Hunter