Development Dialogue

Response to the commentary on Illicit Trafficking and Instability in Mali

Response to the Commentary on Illicit Trafficking and Instability in Mali

...The authors would like to thank Ms. Kavanagh and Dr. Ellis for their thoughtful, 4,000 word commentary on the Global Initiative report Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking and Instability in Mali: ...

Posted on 06 Apr 2014

Private Sector

Illicit Cigarettes: crime at your corner store

...One of the challenges to combating organised crime is that it is often hidden in plain sight. And such as it is with illicit cigarettes, a highly lucrative criminal flow that could be for sale at your...

Posted on 04 Apr 2014

Global Initiative

The Crimea: A new free-crime economic zone?

...By Mark Galeotti                                                                                                                          Â...

Posted on 02 Apr 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

From the Sidewalks of Sinaloa: The El-Chapo Story

From the Sidwalks of Sinaloa

...The capture of Shorty "El Chapo" Guzman, leader of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel was big news, and a major victory in the global fight against organized crime. But it hasn't received universal suppo...

Posted on 25 Mar 2014

Global Initiative

Drug Trafficking through SEE

...South-Eastern Europe has long served as a corridor for several drug-trafficking routes to Western and Central Europe. Owing to its geographical position between Afghanistan, the world’s most importa...

Posted on 24 Mar 2014

Global Initiative

GI Director gives the Keynote at Kings College “Organized Crime in Conflict Zones” conference

...The 2014 Conflict, Security and Development Conference 'Organised Crime in Conflict Zones' took place on March 6 2014 at the Great Hall of the Strand Campus, King's College London (United Kingdom). ...

Posted on 24 Mar 2014

Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics

GIN Interview: Peter Gastrow, parliamentarian, lawyer and independent expert

...  Peter Gastrow, one of the Global Initiative’s founding members, is a seasoned lawyer, parliamentarian and expert on peace-building and combatting organized crime in South Africa and beyo...

Posted on 20 Mar 2014

Development Dialogue

Event: Improving Development Approaches to Organized Crime

Improving Development Approaches to Organized Crime

...In many parts of the world, including in many vulnerable and fragile states, organized crime both exploits and exacerbates conditions that allow it to thrive. Organized crime has undermined state i...

Posted on 19 Mar 2014

Global Initiative

Navigating the wildlife trade debate

...Wildlife commerce – legal and prohibited – sits at the nexus of trade, development, and the environment. Indeed, a key negative impact of wildlife trafficking is that it unsustainably strips count...

Posted on 18 Mar 2014

Global Initiative

Insecurity and violence in the post-2015 development agenda

...“One-and-a-half billion people live in areas affected by fragility, conflict, or large-scale, organized criminal violence, and no low-income fragile or conflict-affected country has yet to achieve a...

Posted on 17 Mar 2014

Global Initiative

Illicit Trade Flows: How to deal with the neglected economic and security threat

...Illicit trade flows generate massive costs for the EU, yet the countermeasures have been inadequate. A shortage of data, the tendency to look at different forms of illicit trade as separate phenomena,...

Posted on 12 Mar 2014

Crime & Terrorism

GIN Interview: Louise Shelley, founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center

...Academic and author Louise Shelley was driven to create the Washington-based Terrorism, Transnational and Corruption Center (TraCCC)  in the mid-1990s because of her longstanding belief in the connec...

Posted on 09 Mar 2014