UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

Can the UN deal with crooked states?

...The decades ahead portend significant technological, physical and social change. A recent study by the UN University concludes that these changes will challenge the central role of states as sources o...

Posted on 21 Dec 2017

Author(s): James Cockayne

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

‘The top of the pyramid’ – tackling drug trafficking by combating corruption

...Drug trafficking features consistently at the forefront of the global policy agenda, as the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs served to show. As one of the most lucrative form...

Posted on 15 Dec 2017

Author(s): Bente Angell-Hansen

UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

‘Cohesiveness’ and ‘inclusiveness’: Watchwords for UN System reform

...UN Secretary General António Guterres has described the complex system he now leads as a ‘fragmented structure’ marked by ‘Byzantine processes’, which do not to help achieve the organization...

Posted on 15 Dec 2017

Author(s): Bente Angell-Hansen

ENACT

Africa in arms: Taking stock of efforts for improved arms control

...This paper examines the current challenges posed by illicit arms flows in Africa and responses by the AU and regional organisations. The future of Africa’s development is intrinsically linked to ...

Posted on 13 Dec 2017

Global Initiative

Sweet secrets: sugar smuggling and state formation in the Kenya-Somalia borderlands

...by Jacob Rasmussen This DIIS Working Paper explores the role of Somali militants and the Kenyan army, bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and truck drivers in the lucrative but dangerous smuggling ...

Posted on 12 Dec 2017

Private Sector

Transnational Organized Crime and the Impact on the Private Sector: The Hidden Battalions

Transnational Organized Crime and the Impact on the Private Sector:

...This paper is based on a detailed review of the scale and nature of organised crime’s infiltration of the private sector.  These findings are a ‘call to arms’ for the international private and ...

Posted on 07 Dec 2017

Author(s): Robin Cartwright, Frances Cleland-Bones

Global Initiative

World Migration Report 2018

...This report is the ninth in the World Migration Report series. Since 2000, IOM has been producing world migration reports to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world. In...

Posted on 03 Dec 2017