Trends in Organized Crime, Smuggling, and International Security.
Excited to launch my new report, "Divided They Fall: Frontiers, borderlands and stability in North Africa", written with Max Gallien.
The report looks at smuggling and Maghrebi states, the change in border security approaches, and the impact of such changes on borderland communities and informal and illicit markets.
The report is available here.
In a new podcast from the Global Initiative, I dig into why and how irregular migration from Tunisia has surged over the last 12 months, and forecast what we can expect in 2021.
Addition segments of the podcast feature Hiba Tlili, discussing Tunisia’s political crisis, and Dr. Dalia Ghanem discussing her work on women and smuggling on the Tunisia-Algeria border.
The podcast can be accessed here: Tunisia: Political Unrest and the Illicit Economy.
Securing border areas is very different from other parts of a country and needs tailored security sector reform programming. This report delves into some of the idiosyncratic elements of the borders environment, and offers brief recommendations on approaches which can help to better tailor SSR programmes in those areas.
It is available here.
On 14 August, the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime held an hour long deep dive into drug production, trafficking and consumption trends in North Africa, with a special focus on Libya.
Presenters included Max Gallien and I, discussing our GI-TOC report “A Rising Tide": Trends in production, trafficking and consumption of drugs in North Africa,” and Fiona Mangan, detailing her USIP report “Illicit Drug Trafficking and Use in Libya: Highs and Lows.”
