This Third World Quarterly article draws on coca farmer accounts to argue that if the state continues to wage war against the peasantry, it will hardly achieve effective governance of the coca frontier.
‘Erradicamos la coca, ¿y ahora qué?’ La sustitución desde las voces de los usuarios del PNIS en Tumaco
Con este especial, queremos ir más allá de los datos y cifras del incumplimiento del Programa Nacional Integral de Sustitución de cultivos de uso ilícito.
‘La Paz con hambre y bala está muy difícil.’ Informe de seguimiento a la implementación del PNIS
En este informe hacemos una evaluación a la implementación del Programa Nacional Integral de Sustitución de cultivos de uso ilícito.
Afghanistan: heroin and human trafficking are the only two sectors of the economy still thriving
The trade in drugs and people are growing in importance as other sectors of Afghanistan’s economy contract or shut down and poverty deepens.
Entangled lives: Drug assemblages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan
This Third World Quarterly article explores the lifeworld of drugs, following their journey from the farmers’ field to their arrival at the border with Tajikistan.
Drugs, development and peace processes in Afghanistan
Podcast: Drugs & (dis)order researchers explore how illicit drugs have been approached within peace process in Afghanistan.
Trading spaces: Afghan borderland brokers and the transformation of the margins
This chapter published in The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling focuses on brokers and brokerage in the context of cross border smuggling or illicit trade.
Drugs, development and peace processes in Myanmar
Podcast: Drugs & (dis)order researchers explore how illicit drugs have been approached within peace process in Myanmar.
Peace and illicit drugs at the margins: A borderland view of Afghanistan’s SDG 16
This AREU Policy Brief asks how the SDG-16 goals are being addressed in Afghanistan. In What ways do they specifically address the particular political challenges that Afghanistan faces, and the geographical divisions of the country?
Drugs, development and peace processes in Colombia
Podcast: Drugs & (dis)order researchers explore how illicit drugs have been approached within Colombia’s peace process.
A taxing narrative: Miscalculating revenues and misunderstanding the conflict in Afghanistan
The assumption that the Taliban collected significant amounts of money taxing the cultivation of opium, the production of opiates, and on the smuggling of drugs across Afghanistan’s borders is the …
Sharing the load 1: The distributive nature of the opium trade in, and from, Afghanistan
This chapter documents empirical research along the length of the value chain for opium in Afghanistan, and across its international borders.
Ethnicity and great power politics: A case of transnational ethnic Kachin of Myanmar and Singpho of Northeast India
Published in Communities, Institutions and Histories of India’s Northeast. By Dan Seng Lawn. At the outset it will be proper to trace the etymological development of the names, Kachin and …
Land formalization – The new magic bullet in counternarcotics? A case study of coca cultivation and tenure (in)formality from Colombia
This World Development article examines some of the causal mechanisms that underlie the relationship between land tenure and the cultivation of crops used for illicit drug production.
“Ploughing the land five times”: Opium and agrarian change in the ceasefire landscapes of south-western Shan State, Myanmar
This Journal of Agrarian Change article explores the relationship between the illicit opium economy and processes of agrarian change in south-western Shan state, Myanmar.
Afghanistan: what the conflict means for the global heroin trade
Jonathan Goodhand discusses how economic factors are shaping unfolding events, including the trade in opium and heroin.
Fumigación: daños a la salud democrática
El informe tiene como objetivo central identificar las afectaciones que el programa de aspersiones aéreas con glifosato ha ocasiones sobre aspectos y dimensiones básicas de la democracia colombiana.
Development zones in conflict-affected borderlands: The case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar
How are development zones ‘made’ in conflict-affected borderlands? What forms of territorialisation underpin the making of development zones in these contested spaces? What forms of public authority emerge to govern borderland development zones and whose interests do they serve? And how do long-standing histories of illicit border trade, fragmented sovereignty, and unresolved armed conflicts shape governance structures and everyday life in these development zones?
Pathways to opposing centralised and exclusionary drugs policy in Colombia
Six defining characteristics of the evolution of Colombia’s drugs policy and two possible entry point for policy influence with research.
An analysis of Colombia’s drug policy and actors
A closer look at the evolution of Colombian and international illicit drugs policies and actors.