Global Strategy

Intersections: Building Blocks of a Global Strategy Against Organized Crime

Intersections

...In the last few decades, organized crime has mutated faster than our ability to understand or disrupt it. It threatens our lives and the security and well-being of societies. Despite the severity and ...

Posted on 01 Jul 2024

AR-Obs

Firearms trafficking and violence in Ecuador

Paradise lost?

... Ecuador is facing an unprecedented surge in violence and criminality, ranking among the top 10 countries globally for criminal incidence. Currently, it holds the highest rate of violent deaths...

Posted on 28 Jun 2024

Author(s): Private: Carla Álvarez

EUR-Obs, SEE-Obs, UKR-Obs

Undercurrents: Blue crime on the Danube

Undercurrents: Blue crime on the Danube

...The Danube River, Europe's second longest, flows through ten countries from the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea. Historically a central artery for trade and cultural exchange across Mitteleur...

Posted on 27 Jun 2024

Author(s): Walter Kemp, Ruggero Scaturro

Global Organized Crime Index, UN-TOC Watch, SEE-Obs

A golden opportunity for UAE?

...As the UAE assumes a leadership role in the international response to crime, it remains to be seen whether it is committed to fighting crime or simply ‘crimewashing’ its public image.  On 18 May...

Posted on 26 Jun 2024

UKR-Obs

More guns, better control? The paradox of gun control in Ukraine

...Advocates of gun control often interpret ‘control’ as a limiting exercise: reduce the number of firearms in civilian hands, reduce the levels of violence in society. This has been one strand of th...

Posted on 24 Jun 2024