RESPECT

Human Trafficking and Supply Chains: Recommendations to Reduce Human Trafficking in Local and Global Supply Chains

...The trafficking of persons is a growing human rights problem that affects individuals locally and globally and is exacerbated by public and private supply chains. Outsourcing goods and services to ...

Posted on 01 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

Tubu Trouble: State and Statelessness in the Chad–Sudan–Libya Triangle

...By Jérôme Tubiana and Claudio Gramizzi This paper looks at the recent history of the Tibesti region in Chad and the Teda (or 'Tubu') people who inhabit the area. More specifically, the authors exam...

Posted on 01 Jun 2017

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

When Corruption Is the Operating System: The Case of Honduras

...by Sarah Chayes In some five dozen countries worldwide, corruption can no longer be understood as merely the iniquitous doings of individuals. Rather, it is the operating system of sophisticated net...

Posted on 30 May 2017

Gold Watch

Gold, guns and China: Ghana’s fight to end galamsey

...Hundreds of thousands, including many from China, are engaged in illegal artisanal mining. How can the government stop it? At the start of April, Ghana’s government issued a three-week ultimatu...

Posted on 30 May 2017

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

Justicia para Javier

...On May 15, the body of Javier Valdez Cardenas was perforated by 13 bullets outside the offices of Riodoce, the weekly newspaper he co-founded in Culiacan, Sinaloa, in northwest Mexico. Valdez was one ...

Posted on 29 May 2017

Gold Watch

Glittering in the shadows – An analytical view of the Lebanese gold trade

...Lebanon is historically notorious for its lack of metals and similar natural resources. This makes it even more astonishing that almost one quarter of Lebanese exports are constituted by a precious m...

Posted on 26 May 2017

Global Initiative

Conference Report: Organised Crime and Illicit Trade in Europe

...by Maria Eirini Papadouka and Cathy Haenlein In November 2016, RUSI convened a two-day conference on ‘Organised Crime and Illicit Trade in Europe’. It was supported by the EU’s Hercule III Prog...

Posted on 24 May 2017

Global Initiative

Integrated Responses to Human Smuggling from the Horn of Africa to Europe

Integrated Responses to Human Smuggling from the Horn of Africa to Europe

...In the period 2013-16, more than 1.5 million people have converged towards Europe from across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Some seek asylum from conflict, violence and humanitarian need; others a...

Posted on 24 May 2017

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Peter Tinti, Mark Shaw,

Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics, NAS-Obs

Libya: a patchwork state sewn together along trafficking lines

Libya: A Patchwork State Sewn Together Along Trafficking Lines

...This post is a summary of a case study published as part of UNU-CPR’s Crime-Conflict Nexus Series.  A series of airstrikes over the course of April 2017 in and around the town of Sebha in s...

Posted on 16 May 2017

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Mark Shaw

Crime & Conflict

Centrifugal Forces: Exploring the nexus of global illicit flows and local conflict dynamics

Centrifugal Forces: Exploring the nexus of global illicit flows and local conflict dynamics

...This post is a summary of a thematic report published as part of UNU-CPR’s Crime-Conflict Nexus Series.  The role of illicit resources has bedevilled the resolution of conflicts for generatio...

Posted on 16 May 2017

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano

Crime & Conflict

Exploring the Crime-Conflict Nexus

Exploring the Crime-Conflict Nexus

...Abajo en español. Organised crime has emerged as a major factor that exacerbates violent conflict and state fragility. It also has a significant destabilizing impact on peacebuilding and statebuildi...

Posted on 16 May 2017

Global Initiative

Event: Oslo, Norway – Beyond Convergence

... The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, Politihøgskolen and the Center for Complex Operations warmly invite you to join the Oslo launch of the National Defence University’s...

Posted on 11 May 2017