Crime & Conflict, Development Dialogue

Illicit Trafficking and Instability in Mali: Past, present and future

Illicit Trafficking and Instability in Mali: Past, present and future

...The Global Initiative is pleased to release this first research report "Illicit Trafficking and Instability in Mali: Past, present and future", which is an in-depth review of how illicit trafficking h...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

Behind Bars and Controlling the Barrio

...Abajo la versión en español The end of December saw the streets of São Luís, Brazil turned into a war zone. Buses were burned, police stations fired upon, and three prisoners were decapitated. Th...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Global Initiative

Swashbuckling in Southeast Asia

...Abajo la versión en español The pirates attacked in the early hours January 16th, roaring up on a cargo ship anchored off of Jakarta, Indonesia. The four men boarded the vessel, brandishing knives ...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Vigilante Justice: Militias, and Michoacán

...Abajo la versión en español The line between drug war and civil war in Mexico is becoming increasingly tenuous. For the last six years, the violence has pitted heavily armed drug trafficking gangs ...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Sanctions and organized crime, Wildlife Watch

Wildlife trafficking sanctions: The first heavy rounds in a longer war?

...Abajo la versión en español The response to wildlife trafficking has long been lamented as uncoordinated, un-strategic and falling between the cracks of different national agencies. The global fram...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Crime and Punishment: the death penalty for drug offenses?

...Abajo la versión en español Frustrated with the insider trading and violent behaviors similar to those described in Brazil, a senator from the Philippines has been actively campaigning for his coun...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Crime & Conflict, Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics, Wildlife Watch

Analyzing Organized Crime – February 2014

Analyzing Organized Crime - February 2014

...[Analyzing Organized Crime brief covering key events in January, explores what makes an appropriate and effective punishment for those who commit organized criminal acts? Escalating levels of viole...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Private Sector

Maritime Marauding

...For international mariners, 2014 began on an optimistic note. Pirate attacks were at their lowest level in seven years, driven in large part by a steep drop in Somali piracy.  However, there is reaso...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Global Initiative

Organized crime looks East

...Abajo la versión en español In 2013, international attention began to fixate on the organized crime challenge in East Asia. The region is no stranger to organized crime; groups such as Japan’s ...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Global Initiative

Boom, bust and bitcoin

...This January, bitcoin celebrates its fifth birthday.  This flagship of digital currencies, has truly come of age in the last year, achieving unprecedented attention and legitimacy.  Germany recogniz...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Global Initiative

Amped for Amphetamines

...Abajo la versión en español Amphetamines are quickly becoming the favored drugs of the modern age. Cheap, easy to manufacture, and heavily addictive, meth has percolated throughout the world and is...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Development Dialogue

Organized crime and the development debate

...Abajo la versión en español Organized crime is a spoiler to peacebuilding, governance and development.  It preys on weak and fragile states.  It exacerbates conflict, increases insecurity – bot...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014