CIVAD and the Serious Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Evidence (SOC-ACE) research programme are hosting a policy lab, bringing together policymakers, practitioners and researchers whose goal is to support sustainable war …
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In this Working Paper, Kathy Win discuses the role of CSOs, faith-based groups and ethnic armed organisations in harm reduction programmes in Northern Shan State.
This paper discusses intersectional approaches to understanding pathways out of harmful drug use in Kachin state, Myanmar, through telling the life story of a well-known advocate for better treatment of drug users.
This Working Paper presents findings from the second survey of participants in Colombia’s crop substitution progrmme, carried out in Tumaco in 2021
This working paper shares reflections from an ongoing conversation between researchers and policy stakeholders on drugs, development and peacebuilding policy.
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 …
An overview of current literature on how militias and their relationship with illegal economies vary between countries and what accounts for these variations.
A closer look at the evolution of Colombian and international illicit drugs policies and actors.
An examination of how drugs policies and programmes intersect with conflict, peace, health and development in Myanmar.
An overview of counter-narcotic laws, policies and programmes in Afghanistan since 2001 and what it means for policy engagement today.
This paper seeks to explain the process of fragmentation of the international drug control system and suggests a new analytical framework for discussing trends and outcomes within the drug control system and its interaction with other areas of global governance.
This global stakeholder analysis examines the recent changes in international drug policy and the implications of these changes for shifting alignments and coalitions of stakeholders.
This publication looks at cross-border production and trade in Nimroz, and how it shapes the political economy of this Afghanistan borderland province.
This paper looks at the ‘chokepoint’ border crossings in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan – who controls the chokepoints, what commodities are transported through them, and what rules govern the amount of rent extraction.
Los principales hallazgos obtenidos de la encuesta aplicada a usuarios del Programa Nacional Integral de Sustitución de cultivos de uso ilícito (PNIS) en los municipios de Tumaco y Puerto Asís. Currently only available in Spanish.
A summary of key insights and debates from academic literature on the illicit economy in Afghanistan, from it’s origins to present day.
A summary of academic literature on illegal drugs in Latin America published in 2018.