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David Bright, Professor, Deakin University

...Professor David Bright is a criminologist and forensic psychologist. His research interests include criminal networks, organised crime, and illicit markets (e.g., drugs, tobacco, firearms). He runs th...

Posted on 28 Apr 2025

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Ben Smith, Head of Organised Crime and Peacemaking, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

...Benjamin Smith currently heads up the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD)’s Organised Crime and Peacemaking programme. He also provides strategic and substantive advice to mediators and conflict p...

Posted on 25 Apr 2025

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Renato Rivera, Professor of International Security. UDLA/FLACSO Ecuador

...Renato Rivera is a researcher, consultant and professor specializing in organized crime. He holds a PhD in Rule of Law and Global Governance from the University of Salamanca and has an outstanding tra...

Posted on 25 Apr 2025

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Dr. Juan Pablo Arci, Lawyer, Auxiliar Fiscal del Ministerio Público Fiscal de la Nación Argentina

...Juan Pablo Arci is a lawyer graduated from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires, with a postgraduate degree in Public Prosecutor's Office Specialization from the same University and a Dipl...

Posted on 25 Apr 2025

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Mervyn Patterson, Senior Adviser/Senior Political Affairs Officer, UNAMA

...Mervyn has almost 30 years’ experience of political affairs, research and analysis, conflict resolution, security sector reform, governance, humanitarian affairs and coordination, in a wide range of...

Posted on 25 Apr 2025

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Tessa Van Roomen, Senior Public Prosecutor, Netherlands Public Prosecution Service

...Tessa van Roomen is an experienced senior public prosecutor with a demonstrated history managing large scale cross-border corruption, fraud and money laundering investigations. She has ample experienc...

Posted on 25 Apr 2025

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Diego Tipan, Criminologist / Espiritu Santo University

...Diego Tipan, Expert on Financial Crimes, Anticorruption and organized crime. He graduate of the Graduate School of the University of Melbourne, Australia, with a Master's in Criminology. He has comple...

Posted on 25 Apr 2025

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Veronica Elizabeth Cirigliano, Architect, specialist in planning, design and evaluation of prison infrastructure for high-risk populations-Amassuru

...Veronica plans, designs and evaluates public housing policies for populations in contexts of confinement. Her degree is in Behavioural sciences, environmental psychology, environmental criminology i...

Posted on 25 Apr 2025

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Marwan Mohammed, Senior Research Fellow, National Center for Scientific Research, France

...Marwan Mohammed is a sociologist, CNRS researcher and member of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs in Paris. He taught sociology at EHESS. His main research topics are social, urban, racism and racial inequ...

Posted on 25 Apr 2025

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Disrupting al-Shabaab’s hold on Mogadishu’s economy

Commerce under siege

...The militant Islamist group al-Shabaab has long remained influential in Mogadishu through its sophisticated extortion system, which demands zakat payments —forced charitable tax— and levies on tra...

Posted on 24 Apr 2025

Global Initiative

Designating criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations

...Bodies hanging from bridges; beheadings and other brutal executions; assassinations, including of police officers and innocent youths; kidnapping and fear-mongering – the violent acts carried out by...

Posted on 24 Apr 2025

Author(s): Walter Kemp

Drug Policy

The thalassopolitics of international drug trafficking

...What if drug traffickers had already taken control of Europe’s major seaports? This alarming prospect is not just the stuff of crime fiction. The 116 tonnes of cocaine seized in 2023 at the Belgi...

Posted on 23 Apr 2025

Author(s): Florian Manet

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