Crime & Conflict

GIN Interview – Jean-Luc Peduzzi, Head of the Dakar Platform

...As law enforcement attaché to the embassy of France in Dakar, Jean-Luc Peduzzi, who is tasked with implementing bilateral security co-operation with Senegal, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Gambia, is�...

Posted on 30 Sep 2015

Development Dialogue

New Frontiers or Old Boundaries? Reconsidering approaches to the Security-Development Nexus

New Frontiers or Old Boundaries?

...The international debate has shifted to consider organized crime as an actual driver of fragility, conflict and weak rule of law, rather than just as a symptom. This indicates it is no longer solely a...

Posted on 23 Sep 2015

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Alternative Governance in the Northern Triangle and Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy

...by Douglas Farah & Carl Meacham While in much of the Northern Triangle of Central America, the state is either absent or a secondary power, it is clear that “ungoverned spaces” are in fact g...

Posted on 18 Sep 2015

Global Initiative

Who are the Smugglers behind Europe’s migration crisis? (video)

...Abajo la versión en español Tuesday Reitano, Head of the Global Initiative Secretariat, spoke this week to Canada's CBC on the smugglers working behind the scenes of the Syrian refugee crisis. ...

Posted on 16 Sep 2015

Protecting Politics, WEA-Obs

Drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau, 1998–2014: the evolution of an elite protection network

Drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau, 1998–2014:

...Guinea-Bissau has been regularly described as a ‘narco-state’. Yet, few studies analyse how drug trafficking has evolved here. Based on extensive interviews in Guinea-Bissau over several years, th...

Posted on 16 Sep 2015

Private Sector

SE Asia Piracy: criminal networks, corporate collusion and corruption

...Suspected phantom tankers in the Riau Islands at a 'base' with network connections, According to the latest International Maritime Bureau (IMB) incident report, now more than half of the world’s p...

Posted on 14 Sep 2015

Wildlife Watch

Understanding the Impact of Militarized Responses to Organized Crime: seminar series

...Understanding the Implications of Militarised Responses to Organized Crime RUSI - Global Initiative Seminar Series 2015 Militarized responses - deploying national or multilateral armies, navies, a...

Posted on 07 Sep 2015

Global Initiative

EU death toll: Experience shows walls and arrests won’t end migrant smuggling

...Abajo la versión en español. Source/Fuente:  Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters Europe is reeling from the failure of its policies towards the ongoing "migration crisis".  The callous inhumanity of the...

Posted on 31 Aug 2015

Protecting Politics, WEA-Obs

Guinea-Bissau: narco state, or elite protection network?

...Often called 'Africa's first narco-state', Guinea-Bissau achieved notoriety for becoming the foremost West African thru-passage at a time when an estimated 25% of Europe's cocaine was trafficked thro...

Posted on 18 Aug 2015

Wildlife Watch

Tackling timber and wildlife trafficking in ASEAN

...Abajo la versión en español. Above: An elephant tusk and ivory trinkets on sale in a shop in Hong Kong. The total value of environmental crime in South-east Asia is estimated to be US$23 billion...

Posted on 03 Aug 2015

Global Initiative

In Memoriam: Stephen Ellis, 1953-2015

...The Global Initiative is very sad to report that Prof. Stephen Ellis died on July 29, 2015, having lost his three-year battle with leukaemia. Stephen has blazed the trail in the study of organized...

Posted on 29 Jul 2015

Global Initiative

West Africa’s meth problem

...By David Lewis West Africa has long been a transit point for drug traffickers. Now it has its own methamphetamine industry, and meth money is going into politics. When customs officers in the slee...

Posted on 24 Jul 2015