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Alexandre Bish

Research Manager, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Alexandre Bish is a researcher specializing in migration, conflict and crime dynamics in West, Central and North Africa. Over the past eight years, Alex has conducted in-depth fieldwork across West Africa and supervised field networks of key informants in both government and hard-to-reach groups, including rebels, militants and smugglers. He is a PhD candidate in Security and Crime Science at University College London and a visiting researcher at Yale University and the University of Oxford.

Recent Publications
  • Bish, A. (2019) Niger: Has Securitisation Stopped Traffickers? Italian Institute of International Political Studies (ISPI), September 2019. https://bit.ly/3aYfbmL
  • Bish, A. (2019) The second coming of West Africa’s cocaine trade? The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, March 2019. https://bit.ly/34p6Wxq
  • Bish, A. (2019) From Resolutions to Responses: Organized crime and the UN Security Council, The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, June 2019. https://bit.ly/2xf9MJa
  • Micallef, M. Horsley R. & Bish, A. (2019) The Human Conveyor Belt Broken – assessing the collapse of the human-smuggling industry in Libya and the central Sahel, The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, March 2019. https://bit.ly/3c2iwkP
  • Micallef, M., Farrah, R, Bish, A. & Tanner, V. (2019) After the Storm: Organized crime across the Sahel-Sahara following upheaval in Libya and Mali, The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, November 2019. https://bit.ly/2JRFcrN

 

Recent speaking engagements
  • American Society of Criminology annual event, Panellist (San Francisco, USA, 14 November 2019)
    Presentation: Can human smuggling research yield insights into human trafficking? A case study of the Niger-Libya corridor.
    https://bit.ly/2JTlLz6
  • USAID Counter-Trafficking in Persons Evidence Summit, Panellist (29 and 30 October 2019, Washington D.C., USA)
    Presentation: Role of passeurs in human smuggling, trafficking and terrorist dynamics in the Sahel.
    Panel: Ethics of researching human trafficking – how to safeguard the ‘fixers’.
    https://bit.ly/34qomKb
  • Global Initiative and Clingendael report launch at EU Commission, Panellist (1 April 2019, Brussels, Belgium)
    Presentation: The Human Conveyor Belt Broken – Assessing the collapse of the human smuggling industry in Libya and the central Sahel. https://bit.ly/3eaLAZi
  • UCL – Master’s class in Security and Crime Science module, Guest lecturer (18 March 2019 and 19 March 2020, London, UK)
    Two-hour lecture: Preventing and Disrupting Organised Crime and Terrorism in Conflict Zones.
  • Invité Afrique – Radio France International, Interviewee (7 February 2019 Valetta, Malta)
    Rebelles de l’UFR frappé par la France: «Pourquoi aucune force armée tchadienne ne les a arrêtés?»
    https://bit.ly/39VxQ1b
  • Danish Refugee Council & Mixed Migration Centre annual event, Panellist (9 November 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark)
    Presentation: How human smugglers use, shape and create migrant aspirations.
    https://bit.ly/2wwXewE

 

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