Transnational Drug Trafficking in Global Context: Common Challenges, Comparative Insights and Lessons Learned

Dealing with NSAAs is complicated and complex shifting between repression and dialogue. NSAAs are highly flexibkle and able to adapt to changing local and global contexts. Policies must be comprehensive and include local communities as well as structural drivers of violence.

Gewalt gilt in Lateinamerika meist als “kriminell“. Aber politische und kriminelle Gewalt sind nicht trennscharf zu unterscheiden. Politiken zur Gewaltreduzierung schwanken zwischen Repression und Dialog; umfassende Ansätze mit einem Fokus auf Prävention, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Menschenrechte fehlen.

Second Workshop

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This visual exploration examines two distinct aspects of drug trafficking using seizure data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The first focuses on maritime drug trafficking, analyzing sea-related seizures that occurred in ports, harbors, territorial waters, rivers, or aboard vessels. The second shifts to cocaine paste (pasta básica), exploring the scale, distribution, and concentration of large interdictions. Through interactive visualizations, this exploration provides insights into where and how major drug seizures take place, offering a data-driven perspective on interdiction patterns.

Der „Krieg gegen Drogen“ scheint gescheitert. Drogenkonsum gilt heute als Aufgabe der öffentlichen Gesundheit und die Politik diskutiert zunehmend über Alternativen zu restriktiver Drogenpolitik. Bei diesem GIGA Forum werden die sich verändernden Diskurse über illegale Drogen in Europa, Lateinamerika sowie weltweit analysiert. Video jetzt online.

This visual exploration examines sea-related drug seizures recorded by the UNODC, focusing on seizures in ports, harbors, territorial waters, and vessels. It highlights trafficking patterns, enforcement efforts, and geographic distribution of maritime drug flows.

Focusing on cocaine paste (pasta básica) seizures, this visualization examines the scale, distribution, and concentration of large interdictions. By analyzing seizure sizes and geographic hotspots, it highlights key trafficking routes and the role of enforcement in disrupting supply flows.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazilian urban peripheries, this article proposes a theoretical reflection on normative multiplicities and their relations to the dynamics of violence in contexts of sharp conflict.

This chapter considers the Dismantling Law through the journey of the Ford Ka stolen from Uber driver Diego in the East Zone. Prior to the Law, the dismantling market was highly susceptible to illegality, as might be expected from a market in stolen car parts. This has led to a conflict between actors competing for economic and political gains from illegal money.

En Brasil, cerca de 500 mil vehículos son robados todos los años, siendo un 45% en São Paulo. En el caso de los autos, los destinos son conocidos – deshuesaderos, negocios de autopartes, fronteras, subastas, reventa, usos en otras acciones delictivas. Este artículo traza la trayectoria de un Ford Ka 2018 robado y desarmado en São Paulo y debate la regulación de las economías ilegales.

The interview begins by tracing the trajectory of this experienced researcher through his theoretical, thematic and empirical choices. Next, we explore some issues raised in the thematic dossier “States of circulation: The co-production of logistical and political orders”

Do war economies thwart postwar transformations and peacebuilding? This paper reveals a complex relationship shaped by political regimes and state capacities. It suggests that postwar countries can strengthen democratic institutions and state presence, rather than being inherently doomed by their war economies.

In Kriegen oder bewaffneten Konflikten sowie in gewalttätigen Kontexten werfen nichtstaatliche bewaffnete Akteure ernsthafte Probleme für die Friedenskonsolidierung, die demokratische Staatsführung und die nachhaltige Entwicklung auf. Diese Trendanalyse bildet überregionale Entwicklungen ab.

Dealing with NSAAs is complicated and complex shifting between repression and dialogue. NSAAs are highly flexibkle and able to adapt to changing local and global contexts. Policies must be comprehensive and include local communities as well as structural drivers of violence.

Gewalt gilt in Lateinamerika meist als “kriminell“. Aber politische und kriminelle Gewalt sind nicht trennscharf zu unterscheiden. Politiken zur Gewaltreduzierung schwanken zwischen Repression und Dialog; umfassende Ansätze mit einem Fokus auf Prävention, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Menschenrechte fehlen.

Second Workshop