An overview of current literature on how militias and their relationship with illegal economies vary between countries and what accounts for these variations.
Fumigación: daños a la salud democrática
El informe tiene como objetivo central identificar las afectaciones que el programa de aspersiones aéreas con glifosato ha ocasiones sobre aspectos y dimensiones básicas de la democracia colombiana.
Development zones in conflict-affected borderlands: The case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar
How are development zones ‘made’ in conflict-affected borderlands? What forms of territorialisation underpin the making of development zones in these contested spaces? What forms of public authority emerge to govern borderland development zones and whose interests do they serve? And how do long-standing histories of illicit border trade, fragmented sovereignty, and unresolved armed conflicts shape governance structures and everyday life in these development zones?
An analysis of Colombia’s drug policy and actors
A closer look at the evolution of Colombian and international illicit drugs policies and actors.
Understanding the drugs policy landscape in Myanmar
An examination of how drugs policies and programmes intersect with conflict, peace, health and development in Myanmar.
Evaluating trends and stakeholders in the international drug control regime complex
This article examines the recent trends in international, in particular multilateral, drug policy and the implications of these changes for shifting alignments and coalitions of actors and stakeholders.
International Journal of Drug Policy Special Issue: Drugs, conflict and development
Empirical research on the convergence of the drugs, development and peacebuilding policy fields.
Addressing illicit economies in peace processes
This policy brief looks at different strategies used by governments and donors to engage with illicit economies in peace processes.
Sharing data from research on illicit drug economies
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. By Veerle Van den Eynden.
The world seems ripe for policy change–But how to achieve it?
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. By Mark Shaw.
War-to-peace transitions and the behavioural legacies of civil war: A plea for looking beyond violence
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. By Ana Arjona.
The drug-conflict nexus: Resilience as organized crime
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. By Teo Ballvé.
Chicken or eggs?: Rethinking illicit drugs and ‘Development’
Viewpoint published in the International Journal of Drug Policy By Paul Gootenberg
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar, part three: Legal pluralism & the challenge of everyday justice
This paper provides and overview of the activities of a large drug eradication movement called Pat Jasan in northern Myanmar.
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in northern Myanmar, part two: Deep culture & cultural psychology
This paper intends to understand better the cultural and psychological response to worsening drug issues that underpin the rise of Pat Jasan as a mass social movement.
The substitution program on trial: progress and setbacks of the peace agreement in the policy against illicit crops in Colombia
This paper examines the design and implementation of the Colombian national illicit crop substitution program that was included in the Peace Agreement.
Dynamic borderlands–The challenge of adapting to hardening borders in Nangarhar and Nimroz
This paper looks at local effects of recent changes in how the international boders of two Afghan provinces, Nangarhar and Nimroz, are governed.
‘Whatever we have, we owe it to coca’. Insights on armed conflict and the coca economy from Argelia, Colombia
This paper argues that rural development and engagement with local governance mechanisms in drug-producing regions are paramount to address effectively the problem of illicit crops.
The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar, part one: Origins & reactions
An introduction to the origins and emergence of Pat Jasan, a social movement that emerged among the Kachin population of Myanmar.
Tough trade-offs Coca crops and agrarian alternatives in Colombia
This article compares coca with mainstream agrarian economies in Colombia. On the one hand, due to coca producers can escape from the ‘reproductive squeeze’ and extreme pattern of land concentration that affect other peasants; on the other, coca becomes an unending source of risk and distress. This contradiction puts peasants in front of very tough trade-offs, which in turn demand a careful reconsideration of what ‘alternative’ development can mean in the Colombian context.