The Illicit Tobacco Trade in Zimbabwe and South Africa
This groundbreaking study of the illicit tobacco trade in southern Africa explores how this trade supports organized crime, helps enable official...
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Curbing Illicit Mercury and Gold Flows in West Africa
On 19 November, Senior Analyst Marcena Hunter presented the report Curbing Illicit Mercury and Gold Flows in West Africa: Options for a Regional...
Where crime compounds conflict
This report seeks to explain how the outbreak of violent conflict in northern Mozambique, driven by a group known locally as ‘Al Shabaab’, is...
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Do we need a global agreement on wildlife crime?
A recent article by former CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon calls for a debate on the way forward internationally in addressing organized...
Guns, pirates and charcoal
A report from the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group shows that Somalia remains a deeply fractured state, but doesn’t go far enough to suggest...
Trade infrastructure and organized crime
Trade infrastructure may enable the economic benefits of globalization, but at the same time it can also make countries more vulnerable to organized...
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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...
Human Trafficking and the Illicit Cigarette Trade: Global Consequences
The illicit trade of cigarettes has become a multi-billion dollar business today and has taken centre stage in the global debate in the last few...
Webinar: Responses to the Global Trade in Illicit Organs
The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and Babson College present The Price of Life: Responding to the Global Black Market in...
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In memoriam: Jean-Luc Vez
Global Initiative Board Member, Jean-Luc Vez, Managing Director for Security Policy and Security Affairs at the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the...
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...
GIN Interview: Gavin Corn, Federal Prosecutor in FBI’s Cybercrime Taskforce
Federal prosecutor on detail to FBI’s Cyber Task Force and founding member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime It’s...
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Munich Security Report 2019
Looking at the current state of international affairs it is difficult to escape the feeling that the world is not just witnessing a series of smaller...
The link between illicit tobacco trade and organised crime
by Prof. Dr. Arndt Sinn Introduction: Organised crime as a global economic power Hand in hand with the globalisation of the economy, the...
Sweet secrets: sugar smuggling and state formation in the Kenya-Somalia borderlands
by Jacob Rasmussen This DIIS Working Paper explores the role of Somali militants and the Kenyan army, bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and truck...