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Illicit economies and political opportunity: The case of Colombian paramilitaries (1982-2007)
This Journal of Political Power article discusses four mechanisms through which criminal involvement politicised paramilitaries.
‘Peace with hunger and bullets is very difficult’: PNIS implementation monitoring report
This Working Paper presents findings from the second survey of participants in Colombia’s crop substitution progrmme, carried out in Tumaco in 2021
Mangling life trajectories: institutionalized calamity and illegal peasants in Colombia
This Third World Quarterly article discusses the institutionalization of calamity – in the form of fumigation and exposure to lethal violence – and its consequences over coca peasants and workers in Colombia.
Modes of governance and the everyday lives of illicit drug producers in Afghanistan
This Third World Quarterly article considers the interaction between different governance arrangements and the everyday life of people involved in the drug economy in Nimroz and Nangarhar.
Archiving and sharing data from the Drugs and (dis)order research project
In this presentation, Veerle Van den Eynden, Data Manager outlines how data from the research is being archived and shared.
La Paz Incumplida De Colombia
Esta animación explora las historias de comunidades que viven en las fronteras colombianas a través de la historia de dos personajes, Roger, un liner social afrocolombiano, y Joanna, una líder campesina.
Colombia’s Broken Peace
This animation tells the story of Roger, an Afro-Colombian activist, and Joanna, a peasant farmer, as they navigate lives impacted by conflict and the illicit drug economy in Colombia’s borderlands.
Nang Nang and Sai Sai: Drugs and their impact on young people in Myanmar’s borderlands
This comic tells the story of Nang Nang and Sai Sai, illustrating the proliferation of drugs and their impact on young people in Shan State, Myanmar
Naw Hkam’s Story: Youth and Drugs in the Borderlands of Kachin State, Myanmar
This comic tells the story of Naw Kam, a young man who describes the impact on his life of sustained drug use
Militias at the margins: implications for post-war stabilisation
Militias are often long-term political actors of post-war frontier areas. central to how states and markets function. What does this imply those making and implementing security policies?
Drugs & (dis)order Policy Lab: An experiment in sustained critical engagement between researchers and policymakers
This working paper shares reflections from an ongoing conversation between researchers and policy stakeholders on drugs, development and peacebuilding policy.
Crop substitution challenges in environmentally protected areas in Colombia
María Alejandra Vélez and María Juliana Rubiano-Lizarazo of CESED reflect on challenges in implementing crop substitution in environmentally protected areas and indigenous reserves.
Colombian state reactions to peace: The legacies of the narcoguerrilla-narcoterrorist discourses
This Journal of Political Power article analyses the effect of the Colombian peace process on the discourse of ‘narco-guerillas’.