Camilo Acero Vargas, Political Scientist at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia talks about the positive and negative impacts of coca economies for farmers.
Karole Balfe on illicit drugs, development and the SDGs
Karol Balfe, Head of From Violence to Peace Programme, Christian Aid talks about how illicit economies are a development blind spot within the SDGs.
Mohammad Ahmadi on illicit drugs in Afghanistan
Mohammad Ahmadi talks about the positive and negative impacts of illicit economies in Afghanistan.
Dan Seng Lawn on responses to illicit drugs in Myanmar
Dan Seng Lawn, Director of the Kachinland Research Centre in Myanmar talks about the impact of drug use and responses to it in Kachin State.
Francisco Gutierrez on the war on drugs and the politicisation of evidence
Francisco talks about how issues related to drugs and conflict, and how best to tackle illicit economies, are not only about policy, but also about politics.
Orzala Nemat on illicit drug economies in Afghanistan
Orzala Nemat, Director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, on building a new evidence base by talking to people in the borderlands of conflict and drug-affected states.
Jonathan Goodhand on the borderlands and illicit drug economies
Jonathan Goodhand explains why country borderlands may hold the key to addressing illicit drug economies in post-conflict states.
States, markets and violence in drug-affected borderlands
Experts share insights from fieldwork in the drug-affected borderlands of Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar at the SOAS Development Studies Seminar.
About Drugs & (dis)order
Why and how we’re working to transform illicit drug economies into sustainable peace economies in Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar.