Matt Herbert | Global Initiative

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Matt Herbert

Senior Expert at the North Africa and Sahel Observatory, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Matt is a Senior Expert at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, managing research activities for the North Africa and Sahel Observatory. He specializes in transnational organized crime, fragility, stabilization, and security sector reform and governance.

He has worked on security sector reform, irregular migration, and organized crime issues in North and West Africa, consulted on security, development, and public health issues in East Africa, worked on transnational organized crime for the state of New Mexico, and served as a policy aide to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.

He has authored a number of articles, reports and book chapters on transnational organized crime, irregular migration, border security, and security sector reform with organizations including the Global Initiative, Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance, Migration Policy Institute, Institute for Security Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and U.S. Institute of Peace

Matt holds a PhD in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, with a sub-specialization in security studies and law & development. He has a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the same institution, and a joint Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts from The College of Santa Fe.

Selected Articles and Assessments

A Rising Tide: Trends in the Production, Trafficking, and Consumption of Drugs in North Africa, Global Initiative, June 2020

“Just Across the Sea: The Changing Politics of Irregular Migration from and through Morocco and Tunisia,” in Mediterranean Challenge: What pushes people from Africa northwards, Edited by Stefano Torelli, Reset Dialogues on Civilizations (November 2019).

“‘La Mal Vie’: The Routes, Drivers, and Politics of North African Irregular Migration,” Institute for Security Studies (May 2019).

“Less than the sum of its parts: Europe’s fixation with Libyan border security,” Institute for Security Studies (May 2019).

“States and Smugglers: The Ties that Bind and How they Fray,” in Transnational Organized Crime and Political Actors in the Maghreb and Sahel, Mediterranean Dialogue Series no. 17, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (January 2019).

“The Insurgency in Tunisia’s Western Borderlands,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (June 2018)

“At the Edge: Trends and Routes of North African Clandestine Migrants,” Institute for Security Studies and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (November 2016)

“Border Security Challenges in the Grand Maghreb,” Peaceworks Report 109, U.S. Institute of Peace, Co-Authored with Dr. Querine Hanlon (May 2015)

“Partisans, Profiteers, and Criminals: Syria’s Illicit Economy,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 38:1 (Winter 2014)

Selected Commentary

“Largely fleeting and hardly convergent: Libyas crime-terror nexus,” written with Mark Micallef. In The Nexus Between Organized Crime and Terrorism: Types and Responses, edited by Letizia Paoli, Cyrille Fijnaut and Jan Wouters (Elgar, Cheltanham: 2022).

“The Challenge of Coordinating Border Management Assistance between Europe and the Maghreb,” Migration Policy Institute (March 2022).

“Losing hope: Why Tunisians are leading the surge in irregular migration to Europe,” Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (January 2022).

“Extractive Resource Protection in Libya – The Challenge of Reforming and Supporting the Petroleum Facilities Guard,” in The Road To Stability: Rethinking SSR in Post Conflict Libya, DCAF (November 2021).

“Communities and Crime Wars,” written with Tuesday Reitano and Siria Gastelum Felix. In The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling, Edited By Max Gallien and Florian Weigand (Routledge, November 2021).

“10 Years After the Arab Spring: Illicit Economies Evolve, Expand and Entrench,” in Beyond the Arab Risings: What Kind of Future, NATO Foundation Defense College (October 2021).

“Conflict, Coping and Covid: Changing human smuggling and trafficking dynamics in North Africa and the Sahel in 2019 and 2020,” written with Mark Micallef, Rupert Horsley, Alex Bish, Alice Fereday and Peter Tinti. Global Initiative (May 2021).

“Divided they fall: Frontiers, borderlands and stability in North Africa,” written with Max Gallien. Institute for Security Studies (December 2020).

“Securing and Stabilising Borders in North and West Africa,” written with Max Gallien. Institute for Security Studies (December 2020).

A Rising Tide: Trends in the Production, Trafficking, and Consumption of Drugs in North Africa, written with Max Gallien. Global Initiative (June 2020)

“‘La Mal Vie’: The Routes, Drivers, and Politics of North African Irregular Migration,” Institute for Security Studies (May 2019).

“Less than the sum of its parts: Europe’s fixation with Libyan border security,” Institute for Security Studies (May 2019).

“States and Smugglers: The Ties that Bind and How they Fray,” in Transnational Organized Crime and Political Actors in the Maghreb and Sahel, Mediterranean Dialogue Series no. 17, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (January 2019).

“The Insurgency in Tunisia’s Western Borderlands,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (June 2018)

“At the Edge: Trends and Routes of North African Clandestine Migrants,” Institute for Security Studies and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (November 2016)

“Border Security Challenges in the Grand Maghreb,” written with Querine Hanlon. Peaceworks Report 109, U.S. Institute of Peace (May 2015)

“Partisans, Profiteers, and Criminals: Syria’s Illicit Economy,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 38:1 (Winter 2014)

Website

https://www.mattherbert.org

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