UN - Security and Rights

UN Peacekeeping Ministerial 2025: GI-TOC joins the Global Alliance for Peace Operations

UN Peacekeeping Ministerial 2025

...GI-TOC has joined the Global Alliance for Peace Operations – a collective endeavour of more than 50 leading think tanks, research institutes and civil society organizations working on UN and regiona...

Posted on 02 May 2025

Author(s): Summer Walker

13 May

UN - Security and Rights, UN Reform

The future of spoilers

...At this year’s United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial in Berlin, governments will come from around the world to discuss the future of peacekeeping. A particular thorn in the side of peacekeeping ha...

Posted on 02 May 2025

EAS-Obs

Odesa: An oasis for organized crime

Odesa

...As Ukraine continues to resist Russia’s full-scale invasion, the port city of Odesa presents a paradox: while under frequent aerial assault, many aspects of life appear remarkably normal. This repor...

Posted on 30 Apr 2025
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MSc. Carolina Andrade Quevedo, General Secretary for Security Affairs of Quito, Ecuador

...Political Scientist. Master’s degree in Political Science with a specialization in Public Affairs from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris. Specialist in Intelligence Services (UNED–Spain) and ...

Posted on 29 Apr 2025
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Carlos Charme, Specialist in Security and Justice, Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe

...Carlos is a lawyer who is an expert in the strategic design, implementation, control, execution, and territorial application of public policies, particularly programs related to the prevention, treatm...

Posted on 29 Apr 2025

Global Organized Crime Index

Morocco’s cannabis policy aims high, but faces resistance in its bid to formalize a deeply rooted informal economy

...For decades, Morocco has been one of the world’s largest producers of illicit cannabis. Cultivation is deeply woven into the social and economic fabric of the northern mountainous region of the Rif....

Posted on 29 Apr 2025

Author(s): Raouf Farrah

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Abigail Robinson, Independent Expert

...Abigail Robinson is an international security expert who has focused throughout her career on the role good governance plays in security and conflict prevention. Her current work focuses on climate an...

Posted on 29 Apr 2025
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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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