UN-TOC Watch

Video: Organized Crime as a threat to sustainable development

...Organized Crime as a threat to sustainable development...

Posted on 17 Apr 2018

Development Dialogue

Responding to organised crime and illicit trade in old and new domains

Organized crime and illicit trade

...Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict re...

Posted on 16 Apr 2018

Author(s): Virginia Comolli, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Karl Lallerstedt, Tuesday Reitano

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Time to resize expectations of UNTOC

...Arguably, the expectation for UNTOC to deliver in isolation has been too high. It should be re-evaluated as a framework for states parties to apply it appropriately and consider legal interventions no...

Posted on 13 Apr 2018

Author(s): Stefano Betti

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Mexico Peace Index 2018: Mapping the evolution of peace and its drivers

...This report contains a comprehensive measure of peacefulness in Mexico from 2003 - 2017. "Peace in Mexico has declined for a second year in a row, as indicated by the 2018 Mexico Peace Index. Peace ...

Posted on 11 Apr 2018

Gold Watch

Follow the money: Zimbabwe

Follow the money: Zimbabwe

...This report provides a rapid assessment of the gold supply chains, financial flows, and power dynamics of the Zimbabwe ASGM sector and related gold trade, and a baseline for this type of analysis. Res...

Posted on 05 Apr 2018

Author(s): Marcena Hunter

UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

Sustaining peace in the city: An alternative approach

...The consequences of organized crime and violence in cities affect millions worldwide. Rankings of urban crime from Mexican and Brazilian think tanks show that many of the most violent cities in the wo...

Posted on 05 Apr 2018

Author(s): Private: Achim Wennmann

Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics, WEA-Obs

Guinea-Bissau illegal drug economy

...Guinea-Bissau has long been labelled a narco-state. Today it is likely that the West African country continues to be a major hub for cocaine. The losers in the drug deals are its citizens.   ...

Posted on 27 Mar 2018

Author(s): Lorraine Mallinder

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Private Sector

Security for Sale: Challenges and Good Practices in Regulating Private Military and Security Companies in Latin America

...by Sarah Kinosian and James Bosworth The elevated, and in some cases epidemic, criminal violence that afflicts much of Latin America has given rise to a booming private security industry. Over 16,000...

Posted on 27 Mar 2018