World Atlas of Illicit Flows
Organized crime takes the lion’s share of USD31.5 billion in illicit flows in and around conflict areas A new report warns that the illegal...
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The heroin coast: A political economy along the eastern African seaboard
This report examines the characteristics of the heroin trade off the East African coast and highlights the criminal governance systems that...
Resilience in Sinaloa: Community Responses to Organized Crime
The #GIResilience Project was designed to strengthen the resilient capabilities of the communities affected by organized crime. The ultimate aim of...
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Not killed on their home turf
Organized-crime groups deploy assassinations in general, and hits in particular, as a mechanism by which to achieve their political, economic,...
What’s happening below deck?
Fishing vessels are increasingly being used as instruments in transnational organized-crime activities. As is the case with legal global trade, a...
The Butcher’s bill – Cocaine trafficking in North Africa
As routes used by cocaine traffickers shift to North Africa, a large cocaine shipment intercepted in Algeria has roiled the country’s security...
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World Atlas of Illicit Flows
Organized crime takes the lion’s share of USD31.5 billion in illicit flows in and around conflict areas A new report warns that the illegal...
Las Buscadoras – the searchers – #GIResilience Project
This is story was made as part of the #GIresilience
Resilience Dialogues: bringing forward the local perspectives in OC
On August 7, 2017, The Global Initiative hosted its first Resilience Dialogues in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, Mexico. These dialogues were...
Resilience in Sinaloa: Community Responses to Organized Crime
The #GIResilience Project was designed to strengthen the resilient capabilities of the communities affected by organized crime. The ultimate aim of...
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Interview with Ruth Dreifuss on the decriminalization of drugs.
How would you assess the current state of the debate around decriminalization of drugs? There have certainly been positive developments since the...
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...
GIN Interview: Jorge Chabat, Professor, International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching on Economics (CIDE), Mexico City
Dr. Jorge Chabat is currently head of the Division of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching on Economics (CIDE) in Mexico...
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Patrones territoriales y factores sociodemográficos asociados a los homicidios y el narcotráfico en Costa Rica (Informe Final)
Leonardo Sánchez Hernández Introducción En los últimos años el país ha experimentado un aumento en el número de homicidios dolosos, en el 2017...
The Resurgence of Violent Crime in Tijuana
A new Justice in Mexico policy brief by Jaime Arredondo Sánchez Lira, Zulia Orozco, Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira, and David A. Shirk, entitled The...
World Drug Report 2017
I am proud to say that this year we are marking 20 years of the World Drug Report. Over the past two decades, the United Nations Office on Drugs and...