Jessica’s story spotlights the stigmatisation and violence associated with coca farming, as well as the welfare benefits and development it brings to families and communities – it’s a story of hardship, resilience and tough trade-offs.
Jangul: conflict and drug trafficking in Afghanistan’s borderlands
This comic tells Jangul’s life story, in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan and how he ended up smuggling heroin from Kabul to Moscow.
Una conversación sobre erradicación forzada, PNIS y los acuerdos con campesinos cultivadores de cultivos de uso ilícito
This video is currently only available in Spanish. Entrevista virtuale con Pedro Arenas, investigador de la Corporación Viso Mutop.
Forced eradication: a policy that kills
Making visible incidents of violence and confrontation related to Colombia’s forced eradication of illicit crops policy.
Las Guardias Cimarronas y su rol en el control territorial del norte del Cauca
This video is currently only available in Spanish. Entrevista virtuale con Victor Hugo Moreno Mina, uno de los líderes de estas guardias del norte del Cauca en Colombia.
Ana Maria Arjona on illicit drugs and public engagement in Colombia
Ana Maria Arjona, former director of CESED at the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia talks about the importance of policy and public engagement for transforming illicit drug economies into sustainable peacetime economies.
Nicholas Thomson on the health dimensions of illicit drug economies
Nicholas Thomson, Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine talks about his work exploring the health dimensions of illicit drug economies in conflict-affected states.
Jasmine Bhatia on challenging prevailing narratives about drugs and conflict
Jasmine Bhatia, Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London talks about how drug economies are often deeply embedded in communities in ways that are very complicated.
Patrick Meehan on illicit drug economies in conflict-affected states
Patrick Meehan, Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London talks about how we seek to better understand how illicit economies can be deeply embedded in the social, political and economic dynamics of regions.
Sara Wong on visual storytelling in research
Sara Wong, Programme Manager at PositiveNegatives talks about how visual storytelling is being used to help people participate in the research process and to communicate complex issues to local and international audiences.
Camilo Acero Vargas on tough trade-offs for Colombia’s coca farmers
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 Gutierrez from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 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, Professor in Conflict and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, 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.