🚨 Apply today for the Summer School of Illicit Trade 2024!

🤔Are you interested in organized crime and illicit economies? Then this course is for you!

Join us at Uniwersytet Warszawski 🇵🇱 from 8-12 July 2024

👉 For more information and how to apply: globalinitiative.net/analysis/summe…

🌰 At Navuti's Site in Doi Tung🇹🇭, the 🇳🇬 delegation NDLEA NIGERIA explores how Arabica coffee and macadamia nuts drive sustainable growth through #AlternativeDevelopment . Showcasing innovation in agriculture for economic resilience. #CapacityBuilding

1/ Reps from 🇳🇬 NDLEA NIGERIA are in 🇹🇭 exploring Mae Fah Luang Foundation's #AlternativeDevelopment projects. This GPDPD-facilitated study visit embodies UN Guiding Principles on AD, aiming to integrate successful strategies into national #drugpolicies . #CapacityBuilding

🚨 Online event: 'Mapping synthetic drug markets in Africa: Enabling evidence-based responses' 🌍💊 by DrugsDevHub

📆 29 April 2024
⌚ 3-5PM CEST / 2-4PM WEST / 8-10AM EDT

Register now and join us for this crucial discussion: gitoc.heysummit.com/talks/mapping-…

📢 Just 1 week left to join a crucial roundtable on #synthetic drug markets in #Africa ! 🌍
🔍 Explore the complex market dynamics and their impacts📅 29 April 2024 🕒 15:00 CET 🌐 Register: gitoc.heysummit.com/talks/mapping-…
🗣️ English & French interpretation available!

#UNODC 's latest report on #drug trafficking in the #Sahel is out!

Here's a 🧵on why drug seizures have exploded in the region and what this means for peace, stability and development: unodc.org/documents/data…

🗓️ 29 April 🕒 3 PM CET

Join us for a crucial discussion on the rapid expansion of synthetic drug markets across #Africa .

Our roundtable, will delve into the dynamics, impacts, and urgent need for comprehensive responses.

Don't miss out!
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My paper #Cocaine and the port of #Piraeus on #policing #organisedcrime and the utopia of #security is now in a physical issue of the European Journal of Criminology and it is #openaccess | fieldwork was funded by Global Initiative

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A worrying trend in 🇨🇴 as noted by Manuela Andreoni: despite a significant reduction in #deforestation by 49% in '23, '24 begins with a drastic increase, up 40%. This flip is mainly due to armed groups controlling key ecological areas. #NarcoDeforestation nytimes.com/2024/04/11/cli…

🇪🇸Spain’s effective risk and #harmreduction strategies during the 1980s #heroin epidemic lowered drug-related deaths and improved quality of life. Now, the challenge is to apply these approaches to emerging #stimulant use while maintaining #evidencebased #publichealth policies.

📢Excited to unveil the 'Guide to Good Practices & Intervention Models' for #COPOLADIII ! This guide is a beacon for addressing #drug -related social vulnerabilities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the EU.
Join us to explore impactful strategies! 👇
🗓️Apr 22
⏰04:30 PM CET

🎓Explore the world of #IllicitTrade at the University of Warsaw #SummerSchool ! From July 8-12, engage in expert-led sessions, gain valuable insights, network & earn a certificate.

📅 Apply by May 31 to secure your spot!
globalinitiative.net/analysis/summe…

What does the data from drug checking services tell us about purity of different drugs? Check out the interactive maps, including amphetamine, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, MDMA pills and MDMA powder: ow.ly/ZB3E50Rfavw

This IISS hybrid event addresses drug-trafficking, organised crime and electoral processes in Latin America.

📅 Monday 15 April
⏰ 16:00 - 17:30 BST
💬 Dr Monica Serrano, Raúl Zepeda Gil 🏳️‍🌈🌹🇲🇽, Dr Pilar Domingo, Vanessa Buschschlüter & _IreneMia

Register here. bit.ly/4cMonuH

Synthetic drugs are sweeping the world, incl the Middle East. Yet current problems of captagon - propping up the Assad regime, funding pro-Iran militias, & fueling violence - pale before meth exploding in the Middle East

My new piece in Foreign Affairs

foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/mi…