Global Initiative

LSE Events | Militarisation and the “War on Crime”

...Recorded on 07 November 2017 From the 70 year old “War on Drugs”, to the more recent “War on Human Smuggling”, politicians use militarised responses to look decisive on crime. The deploymen...

Posted on 20 Mar 2018

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Adopted 18 years ago, why has the UNTOC still not achieved its aim?

...The world is changing and so is transnational organized crime. Yet the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) remains stuck in its original mould, struggling to be relevant. Why d...

Posted on 20 Mar 2018

Author(s): Peter Gastrow

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Guy Vinet

Head of the Strategic Police Matters Unit/Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat

...Guy Vinet is a colonel (rtd) of the French Gendarmerie. He worked extensively in South Eastern Europe for the UN, NATO and the European Union. He held many Gendarmerie leadership positions, worked as ...

Posted on 18 Mar 2018

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, AR-Obs

Social Inclusion from Below: The Perspectives of Street Gangs and Their Possible Effects on Declining Homicide Rates in Ecuador

...Authors: David C. Brotherton & Rafael Gude Since 2007, the Ecuadorian approach to crime control has emphasized efforts to reach higher levels of social control based on policies of social incl...

Posted on 16 Mar 2018
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RESPECT

The Extractive Industry: Environmental Degradation & Human Rights Challenges

...The extractive industry is highly vulnerable to human rights abuses and environmental crime, such as human trafficking along with the uncontrolled use of toxic substances and deforestation. The sourci...

Posted on 15 Mar 2018

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Atlas de la Violencia en América Latina

...Manuel Alcántara Sáez Villagonzalo de Tormes Prólogo El control de la violencia legítima es la razón de ser del Estado. Como bien se conoce, se debe a Max Weber la formulación de ese axiom...

Posted on 15 Mar 2018

UN-TOC Watch

The drug legalization debate: The case for an enforcement approach

...From a personal perspective, both as a veteran law-enforcement officer and someone raised in an inner-city area that experienced its fair share of drug problems, I have seen first-hand the destructive...

Posted on 15 Mar 2018

Author(s): James Soiles

UN-TOC Watch

Interview with Ruth Dreifuss on the decriminalization of drugs.

...How would you assess the current state of the debate around decriminalization of drugs? There have certainly been positive developments since the Global Commission issued its report on the failed ...

Posted on 15 Mar 2018

Author(s): Ruth Dreifuss, Julia Stanyard

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Ruth Dreifuss

...Ruth Dreifuss is former president and Minister of Home Affairs of Switzerland. During her time in office (1993–2002), she implemented new policy to combat drug addiction and enhance prevention of HI...

Posted on 15 Mar 2018
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Alexandre Bish

Head of Research Innovation, North Africa and the Sahel Observatory (NAS-Obs), Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

... Dr Alexandre Bish is the Head of Research Innovation in the North Africa and Sahel Observatory. He is also Honorary Research Fellow at UCL and the co-founder of MyRA, an ethical AI platform ...

Posted on 15 Mar 2018

Assassination Witness, SA-Obs

The rule of the gun: Hits and assassinations in South Africa, 2000-2017

The rule of the gun:

...Summary This report presents an analysis of data on hits (contract killings) carried out in South Africa. The data has been compiled as part of the work of a collaborative project, Assassination Wi...

Posted on 14 Mar 2018

Author(s): Kim Thomas

Global Initiative

Why do migrants die in trucks? – Interview to David J. Danelo

...Why do migrants die in trucks?...

Posted on 13 Mar 2018
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