Case Study: Illegal Gold Mining in Peru
This case study presents the key findings of research conducted between June and August 2016 into the impacts of illicit gold mining in the Madre de...
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Resilience in Sinaloa: Community Responses to Organized Crime
The #GIResilience Project was designed to strengthen the resilient capabilities of the communities affected by organized crime. The ultimate aim of...
Organized Crime and Illegally Mined Gold in Latin America
Throughout history, man has venerated gold. Gold was the first of the three gifts of the Magi to Jesus. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the...
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Urban security: when gangs and militias run the streets
Originally published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in October 2018. Life in Maré, a Brazilian slum controlled...
IOM human trafficking remediation guidelines
The IOM’s recent Remediation Guidelines for Victims of Human Trafficking in Mineral Supply Chains should encourage business to both prevent and...
Mexico election
Mexico’s presidential election opens a new chapter in democracy and security against a backdrop of pervasive violence. Mexicans have voted to...
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Las Buscadoras – the searchers – #GIResilience Project
This is story was made as part of the #GIresilience
Resilience Dialogues: bringing forward the local perspectives in OC
On August 7, 2017, The Global Initiative hosted its first Resilience Dialogues in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, Mexico. These dialogues were...
Resilience in Sinaloa: Community Responses to Organized Crime
The #GIResilience Project was designed to strengthen the resilient capabilities of the communities affected by organized crime. The ultimate aim of...
Organized Crime and Illegally Mined Gold in the Americas
LAUNCH: Organized Crime and Illegally Mined Gold in the Americas Wednesday 6th April, 2-4pm, WMO Building, 2nd Fl, Geneva In the first decade of the...
Webinar: The New American Dream? Illicit migration, human trafficking and smuggling in the Americas
THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM? ILLICIT MIGRATION, HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SMUGGLING IN THE AMERICAS. Wednesday, 10th December, 10:00 am- 12:00 pm EST and...
Constructive Powers: the defining elements of transnational organized crime
Mark Shaw, Director, talks about Constructive Powers, the defining elements of transnational organized crime and how the role of private institutions...
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GIN Interview: Jorge Chabat, Professor, International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching on Economics (CIDE), Mexico City
Dr. Jorge Chabat is currently head of the Division of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching on Economics (CIDE) in Mexico...
Constructive Powers: the defining elements of transnational organized crime
Mark Shaw, Director, talks about Constructive Powers, the defining elements of transnational organized crime and how the role of private institutions...
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Life Under Gang Rule in El Salvador
Nearly 20,000 Salvadorans were killed from 2014 to 2017. That’s more violent deaths than in several countries that were at war during those years,...
Organized Crime and Central American Migration in Mexico
Abstract The following report was researched and written in response to a request by the Mexican Federal Police for an evaluation of the interactions...
Mexico Peace Index 2018: Mapping the evolution of peace and its drivers
This report contains a comprehensive measure of peacefulness in Mexico from 2003 – 2017. “Peace in Mexico has declined for a second year...