Have Your Cake and Trade It: Is it Possible to Promote Legitimate Commerce While Reducing Illicit Trade?
Trade based money laundering and illicit trade both take advantage of the sheer scale of global commerce. Several solutions exist to tackling the issues.
Freeports: Harbouring Criminality in Brexit Britain?
The plan to introduce 10 new freeports across the UK after Brexit has drawn criticism. Introducing these provenly risky zones may contradict the UK’s wider efforts to ramp up the fight against financial crime.
Book Review: Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of the African Union Mission (AMISOM), 2007-2017
My review of Paul D William’s latest book about the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), arguably the world’s most complex – and most deadly – peace operation to date.
Small Parcels, Big Risks: The Forgotten Security Dimensions of the EU’s Digital Single Market Strategy
Postal and parcel delivery services are the unsung heroes of the global e-commerce revolution, licit and illicit.
Pangolin survival: How 'following the money' could save lives
Around the world, the illegal wildlife trade is having a devastating effect on our natural environment. We must target the finances of high level traffickers.
E-Commerce, Delivery Services and the Illicit Tobacco Trade
This Occasional Paper explores the exploitation of the internet and delivery services in relation to illicit tobacco and tobacco products.
A Missing Page: Strengthening the Response to the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Financial investigations in illegal wildlife trade cases are too rare. More must be done to identify the illicit proceeds of IWT and ally confiscation laws and money-laundering charges to tackle criminals’ ill-gotten gains.
UN Peacekeeping Cooperation With Regional Organisations: Time for a Frank Debate
With UN peacekeeper fatalities in 2017 at their highest levels since 1994, the organisation must reflect on how it works with regional partners.
Irrelephant: The Misleading Connections Between Terrorism and Ivory Poaching
Connections between terrorism and ivory trafficking exist, but they are not a solid foundation for combatting the issue.
Poetry and Reconciliation: the Poet’s Quest for Peace
Poetry offers an insight into the emotional experience of violence and conflict potentially beyond that found in academia.
Understanding Gender, Conflict and the Environment
Conflict is gendered. So are the environmental impacts of conflict.
War, human rights and biodiversity: turning conflict into conservation
Biodiversity hotspots cover just 1.4 percent of the planet's surface, yet 80% of major armed conflicts between 1950 and 2000 occurred in these areas.
Book Review: Bremmer, Ian (2015), Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World
Bremmer’s diagnosis of a declining America is deceptively simple, instinctively appealing and therefore utterly convincing at first glance.