February 2022
Drugs & (dis)order: Findings and future directions
Watch the recordings from the Drugs & (dis)order's final event to learn about the findings from four years of research, and listen to discussions on policy and practice at the interface of illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding.
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Dinero fácil: Exposición fotográfica sobre el mundo de la producción cocalera
Photo exhibition on the coca production process in Colombia.
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Fumigación: daños a la salud democrática
Presentación de los resultados de investigación y lazamiento del informe: 'Fumigación: daños a la salud democrática'
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Drugs and development: the great convergence?
What is the relationship between illicit drugs and development, and what are the implications of developmentalising drugs? Exploring the potential pitfalls and trade-offs of converging drugs and development policy fields in conflict contexts.
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Coca, conflicto y desarollo
En este evento se hará la presentación de los artículos publicados en el número especial 'Drogas, conflicto y desarrollo' del International Journal of Drug Policy.
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Myanmar: why peace remains elusive
This talk explores why peacebuilding efforts in Myanmar continue to face huge challenges despite the country’s democratic transition and formal peace process.
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Drugs & (dis)order: Building sustainable peacetime economies in the aftermath of war
Drugs & (dis)order researchers present their work in Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar helping to transform debates, practices and policies relating to drugs and development in conflict affected and post-conflict states at the University of Cambridge Centre of Development Studies Seminar Series 2021.
Find out more »November 2020
Borderlands, conflict and illicit economies: challenges for humanitarian action
The Drugs & (dis)order research team reflects upon the implications of their research findings for humanitarian actors operating in drug- and conflict-affected contexts.
Find out more »October 2020
Poverty, insecurity and migration: reducing COVID-19 risks and vulnerabilities
Speakers discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on mobile populations fleeing poverty and insecurity, and the role of research in proposing solutions.
Find out more »August 2020
Fragility Forum 2020 – Pathways out of conflict in borderlands (Part 2)
Guest experts discuss the implications of new research on illicit economies, development and pathways out of conflict in the borderlands at the World Bank Fragility Forum 2020.
Find out more »Wold Bank Fragility Forum 2020 – Pathways out of conflict in borderlands (Part 1)
Drugs & (dis)order researchers discuss their findings from the borderlands of Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar at the World Bank Fragility Forum 2020.
Find out more »July 2020
Tough trade-offs: integrating drugs, development and peacebuilding
Expert speakers discuss how we can rethink the relationship between drugs, development and violence in war-to-peace transitions, what the big trade-offs that need to be tackled are, and how can we better incorporate the voices and perspectives of those involved in illicit economies into policy debates. Launching 'Voices from the borderlands 2020: illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding.'
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Marginal development: states, markets and violence in drug-affected borderlands
Challenging how conflict, development and state-building are conceptualised and responded to, drawing on research from Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar.
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Colombia’s national illicit crop substitution programme: voices from the coca farms
To inform debates on the future of Colombia's illicit crop substitution programme, this event shares the results of a participatory study with coca farmers.
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Peace, illicit drugs and the SDGs: a development gap
Peace, drug economies and the SDGs, policy brief launch and expert panel discussion.
Find out more »March 2018
Drugs and (dis)order: Building sustainable peacetime economies in the aftermath of war
Launch event: researchers from three of the world's largest drug producing countries – Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar – discuss the need for new approaches to drug policy reform.
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