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Prem Mahadevan

Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

...Prem Mahadevan has specialised in research on organised crime, intelligence and irregular warfare. At the GI-TOC, he has researched on cybersecurity threats, environmental crime, as well as linkages b...

Posted on 08 May 2018

Global Initiative

Five Misconceptions About Migrant Smuggling

...by Gabriella Sanchez Abstract Migrant smugglers occupy a special place in the European ‘migration crisis’ discourse. They are depicted as the facilitators of irregular migrants’ journeys, an...

Posted on 07 May 2018

Global Initiative

GI strategy in 60 seconds

...Towards innovative and commensurate responses to organized crime...

Posted on 04 May 2018

Global Initiative

Global Initiative Strategy 2018-2020

...The challenges posed by transnational organized crime and its negative impacts are increasingly being understood. And, all the while, new challenges are emerging. However, responses have not been comm...

Posted on 04 May 2018

UN Reform

Divisions thwart UNTOC review process

...Is the idea of a review mechanism for the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime dead? Effective implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) has l...

Posted on 04 May 2018

Author(s): Mark Shaw

22 May

Crime Terror Nexus

Organised Crime/Terror Nexus Workshop

... A collaboration between the Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research (SHOC) at RUSI and the University of Sussex Terrorism and Extremism Research Network (STERN) The organised crime...

Posted on 04 May 2018

Crime Terror Nexus, SEE-Obs

The Balkans: A migrant gateway for jihadists?

...The story of Europe’s migrant crisis is still far from over. In the Balkans, a region that felt some of the greatest shocks, the situation may be easing, but in the post-caliphate era the potential ...

Posted on 01 May 2018

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Jessica Gerken

UN-TOC Watch

Much ground to cover at upcoming global compact

...Negotiations on the Global Compact for Migration will be held at the UN headquarters in May. David Donoghue, a co-facilitator during negotiations around the 2016 New York Declaration, considers whethe...

Posted on 27 Apr 2018

Author(s): David Donoghue

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David Donoghue

...David Donoghue was involved in the Northern Ireland peace process and was one of the Irish government’s negotiators for the Good Friday Agreement. He served as Irish Ambassador in Russia, Germany...

Posted on 27 Apr 2018

04 May

Global Initiative

Why do migrants die in trucks?

...• In August 2017, 42 asylum seekers were discovered inside a freight truck that was transporting textiles in Romania. • In July, more than 100 migrants were found on the point of suffocation in...

Posted on 23 Apr 2018

Crime & Conflict

Northern Mozambique: Where terror capitalizes on corruption

...Networks of powerful, politically connected criminal actors have created an enabling environment for an Islamic insurgency in northern Mozambique that is terrorizing local communities and threatening ...

Posted on 23 Apr 2018

Author(s): Simone Haysom

Global Initiative

Tainted timber: Illegal logging, South East Asia

...The recent murders of environmental defenders in Cambodia highlight how international interventions are failing the front-line actors who risk their lives protecting forests from illicit logging in So...

Posted on 18 Apr 2018

Author(s): Marcena Hunter

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