Analyzing trends in targeted killings in Nigeria
This report analyzes the dynamics of targeted killings in the country using a specially designed dataset over the period 2000 to 2017. The report...
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Learning from community responses to gangs in Cape Town
South Africa, which has long experienced an exceptionally high rate of violent crime, has seen a worrying increase in the murder rate in recent...
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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Freedom of press threatened by organized crime in Western Balkans
On 30 August, in the early hours of the morning, Albanian journalist Klodiana Lala was targeted by gunmen while she was in her father’s home in...
East Africa: Organized crime and terrorism
In East Africa, three spheres co-exist – informal economies, organized-crime networks and terror groups. We need a better understanding of how they...
Mexico election
Mexico’s presidential election opens a new chapter in democracy and security against a backdrop of pervasive violence. Mexicans have voted to...
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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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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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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...
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...