Mark Shaw and I were very pleased to be able to contribute to a UN University lead research series on the “Crime-Conflict Nexus“, with an outstanding set of co-authors, including John de Boer, James Cockayne and Louise Bosetti from UNU; Vanda Felbab-Brown from the Brookings Institute, and Sasha Jesperson from RUSI. Our two papers were…
By invitation of the CT-Morse project, a policy advisory, support and monitoring unit for the EU’s programmes in counter-terrorism, I’ve had the pleasure to lead the development of two policy notes: Examining the Nexus between Organised Crime and Terrorism, and its Implications for EU Programming Co-authored with Colin Clarke of Rand / ICCT-The Hague, and Laura…
Over the past year, as the EU migration crisis continued to play out, I’ve had the great privilege to curate a series of research which took a close look at human smugglers themselves: who they are; how they came to be doing what they do; what they think about their work, and what it would…
Claire Hajaj and I were pleased to contribute an article to the Journal of Global Health Governance, an article that marked the 2014 re-emergence of polio in Syria after 14 years of absence. Polio, the archetypal disease of poverty was within a millimeter of complete eradication, thanks to incredible efforts of global-local cooperation and political…
The Global Initiative teamed up International IDEA and Clingendael to produce a paper series known as ‘Protecting Politics’ which examines the different strategies by which organised crime infiltrates into political systems. With colleagues Marcena Hunter and Adam Rodriques, we were pleased to author and contribute to two of these papers: Deterring the influence of Organised Crime…
Up to 77% of medicine found in West Africa is not as effective as its brand name would suggest; resources from drug trafficking fund terrorist groups and corrupt political elites; elsewhere, workers mine gold under questionable conditions. These different forms of illicit trade represent one source of illicit financial flows (IFF), spanning countries and continents.…
What began in 2014 as news reports of boats sinking in the Mediterranean has today grown into one of the world’s most tangled of Gordian knots – a profound humanitarian and security challenge affecting millions of people from the UK to the Levant and Afghanistan. It has also set the United Nations and the European…
