Workshop

Experts Workshop Port Cities Fighting Transatlantic Drug Trafficking

Options, Opportunities and Challenges for EU-LAC cooperation

Date

07/04/2025 - 08/04/2025

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  • This workshop offers a unique space to generate in-depth, interdisciplinary and insightful dialogue and discussions between experts from diverse backgrounds in order to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and action-oriented reflections on the challenges of and responses to changing dynamics of illicit drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe, and in particular what role ports and port cities play in combating drug trafficking. 

    Emphasizing the key role of ports, the workshop aims to discuss developments both in producer and transit countries, as well as the strategic European logistic hubs from which drugs are distributed. The workshop seeks to analyse the promises and pitfalls of different types of responses to drug trafficking, to shed light on the determinants and consequences of drug trafficking in communities in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, and to highlight civil society’s contribution in addressing drug trafficking, drug control and its negative externalities. 

    Workshop sessions are composed of practitioners from political authorities and law enforcement, academics and members of civil society organisations from Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond. The workshop’s discussions are intended to share insights, experiences and recommendations for tackling the challenge of drug trafficking, to strengthen bi-regional cooperation between Europe and Latin America and to identify priorities for the bi-regional Summit EU-CELAC in Bogotá in November 2025. 


    This workshop is supported by the Senate of Hamburg and the "Transfer for Transformation (T4T)" project at the GIGA, funded by the Leibniz Association through its Leibniz Competition grant, T95/2021.  


    Address

    Hamburg International Maritime Museum, Hamburg

    Visualizing Drug Flows: Maritime Routes, Cocaine Seizures, and Coca Cultivation

    This visual exploration examines four aspects of the cocaine trade using seizure and cultivation data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The first focuses on maritime trafficking, analyzing sea-related seizures in ports, harbors, rivers, and aboard vessels. The second explores cocaine paste (pasta básica), visualizing the scale and distribution of large interdictions. The third examines cocaine powder seizures, highlighting trafficking patterns and concentrations across regions. The final section shifts to the source, tracking coca cultivation trends in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. Through interactive visualizations, this exploration provides insights into where and how major drug seizures take place, offering a data-driven perspective on interdiction patterns.

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    The Law of God, the Law of the State and the Law of Crime: an Anthropological Account of the Consolidation of Multiple Normative Regimes in Brazilian Urban Margins

    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.

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