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Coping With Crisis
Organized Crime
Recent Highlights
Policy Papers - October 12, 2011
Termites at Work: Transnational Organized Crime and State Erosion in Kenya
The threat posed by organized crime is not confined to serious crimes such as racketeering, the global drug trade, or human trafficking. For many developing countries and fragile states, powerful transnational criminal networks constitute a direct threat to the state itself, not through open confrontation but by penetrating state institutions through bribery and corruption and by subverting or undermining them from within. This paper examines whether Kenya faces such a threat. 
Meeting Notes - January 04, 2011
IPI Publication Reviews UN Transnational Crime Convention
André Standing, rapporteur
Ten years have passed since the adoption of the Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Convention) by the UN General Assembly on November 15, 2000.
Policy Papers - October 14, 2009
Drug Trafficking Through West Africa
James Cockayne, Phil Williams
An invisible tide is rising on the shores of West Africa, creeping into its slums, its banks, its courts, its barracks, and its government ministries.
Policy Papers - January 20, 2009
Transnational Organized Crime: IPI Blue Paper no. 2
James Cockayne, Lead Rapporteur
The paper highlights how states and international organizations so far have largely failed to anticipate the evolution of transnational organized crime (TOC) into a strategic threat to governments, societies, and economies.
Meeting Notes - April 14, 2008
Peace Operations and Organised Crime
James Cockayne, Daniel Pfister
Drawn from a seminar jointly convened by the International Peace Institute and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, this paper explores the relationship between organized crime and international peace operations al hitherto largely neglected area of both scholarly and practitioner-led discourse.
About This Project
This project focuses on developing more effective multilateral responses to transnational organized crime and the new threats it poses, most notably in conflict zones and fragile states. It aims at enhancing strategic and operational coordination between states and those multilateral mechanisms that currently address organized crime, such as the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, UN police, UN sanctions bodies, INTERPOL, and regional organizations.
Project Staff
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