Sand mafias in India
India has seen a tripling of demand for sand from 2000 to 2017, creating a market worth 150 billion rupees, or just over two billion US dollars. The...
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The UN System-Wide Response to Organized Crime
From peace operations to how to better manage forests and food supply chains, the United Nations (UN) is engaged in the fight against organized crime...
Extortion in Central America
In parts of Central America, extortion has become so endemic that it is now a feature of the daily socio-economic life of citizens, businesses and...
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New Security Council resolution recognizes broader links between terrorism and organized crime
Is the UN Security Council widening its approach to dealing with the links between terrorism and organized crime, or merely synthesizing existing...
Central America’s criminal culture: Lessons for Mexico
Extortion is becoming more pervasive in Mexico, in a region already notorious for its criminal culture. Can Mexico learn from its southern...
Organized crime and the UN Security Council
In 2018, 40% of UN Security Council Resolutions demanded a response to organized crime. Here, we present insights into the United Nations 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...
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...
Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld (video)
Contract killing and targeted “hits” in South Africa have become widespread and deeply embedded into parts of the country’s history of systemic...
Held to Ransom: An overview of Mozambique’s kidnapping crisis
A silver Mercedes-Benz pulls into the driveway of a luxury beachfront home on Maputo’s Avenida Marginal. As an electronic security gate begins to...
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Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa
Summary and Keywords Organised crime and criminal networks are an outcome of Africa’s weak systems of state reach and governance, and in turn they...
Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld (video)
Contract killing and targeted “hits” in South Africa have become widespread and deeply embedded into parts of the country’s history of systemic...
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Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa
Summary and Keywords Organised crime and criminal networks are an outcome of Africa’s weak systems of state reach and governance, and in turn they...
Life Under Gang Rule in El Salvador
Nearly 20,000 Salvadorans were killed from 2014 to 2017. That’s more violent deaths than in several countries that were at war during those years,...
Mexico Peace Index 2018: Mapping the evolution of peace and its drivers
This report contains a comprehensive measure of peacefulness in Mexico from 2003 – 2017. “Peace in Mexico has declined for a second year...