Global Initiative

Narcas

...Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán is a name that stands out in the world of organized crime, on par with figures such as Al Capone and Pablo Escobar. But during El Chapo’s trial in 2018–2019, one wo...

Posted on 29 Oct 2024

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Drug Policy, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

After the war on drugs: The impacts of cocaine and cannabis regulation in Rio de Janeiro

After the war on drugs:

...What would the consequences of the potential cocaine and cannabis regulation in Rio de Janeiro be? This report dives into analyzing these potential impacts in a city long plagued by violence linked to...

Posted on 28 Oct 2024

Author(s): Carolina Christoph Grillo

Drug Policy, EUR-Obs

The looming threat of synthetic opioids in Europe?

...For over 20 years, the opioid crisis in North America has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, primarily due to over-prescribing by doctors and marketing by pharmaceutical companies of powerful opi...

Posted on 22 Oct 2024

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro, Daniel Brombacher

Crime & Conflict, Crime Terror Nexus

West Africa Risk Bulletin #11

Observatory of illicit economies in West Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Click here to view the Global Organized Crime Index Observatory of Illicit Economies in West Africa Issue 11 October 2024 Summary highlights IS Sahel: Consolidating territor...

Posted on 21 Oct 2024

Eco-Solve, AMA-Obs

Criminal networks are driving the Amazon’s climate emergency

...Over the past year, a record number of mass fires have occurred across the Amazon basin. Many of them, particularly those in the Brazilian Amazon – which accounts for over 60 per cent of the rainfor...

Posted on 16 Oct 2024

Author(s): Gabriel Funari, Gabriel Granjo

Global Initiative

Chasing shadows

...Few people recognize the crucial role organized crime plays in supporting terrorism, a relationship known as the crime–terror nexus. A few years ago, Financial Times investigative journalist Miles J...

Posted on 15 Oct 2024

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Cities & Illicit Economies

Urbanization, Peace, and Security

Urbanization, Peace, and Security

...The global population’s demographic and social transition into predominantly urban environments has implications for security dynamics and efforts to promote peace. Yet cities, their governments, an...

Posted on 11 Oct 2024

Author(s): Antônio Sampaio

Crime Terror Nexus, WEA-Obs

What the killing of bandit kingpin Sububu means for stability in Nigeria’s North West

...On 12 September 2024, the Nigerian military killed Kachalla Halilu Sububu, a notorious bandit leader in Zamfara state in north-western Nigeria, and several of his senior commanders in an ambush. Altho...

Posted on 11 Oct 2024

Author(s): Kingsley L. Madueke, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Lawan Danjuma Adamu