August 2020
Fragility Forum 2020 – Pathways out of conflicts in borderlands
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 »Peace, illicit economies, development: pathways out of conflicts in borderlands
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.'
Find out more »November 2019
Gender, conflict and illicit economies workshop
A closed-door workshop on the gendered dimensions of illicit economies in conflict-affected states.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »The second International Advisory Group meeting
The group's second meeting to discuss key project activities, research, capacity building, policy engagement and governance.
Find out more »Myanmar workshop 2019
Bringing together the Myanmar partners to analyse emerging findings from year 2 fieldwork, and to plan for the next year's research and engagement work.
Find out more »Roundtable event in Kabul
On 5 November 2019, the Drugs & (dis)order Afghanistan country team held a roundtable discussion with members of the Afghan government and other stakeholders from the research and policy community in Kabul. The event included an overview of the project's goals and preliminary findings to date, as well as two policy briefings: one on the ongoing stakeholder analysis of drugs issues currently being developed by project-partner AREU, and another on the relationship between the illicit drug economy and the Sustainable…
Find out more »October 2019
Transitioning from war to peace: what role for the EU in addressing illicit economies?
Drugs & (dis)order experts join the Civil Society Dialogue Network policy meeting to inform how the EU can better engage with the issue of illicit economies in its development and conflict prevention work.
Find out more »Comparative research workshop
Partners meet in London to develop the comparative research component of the project.
Find out more »First conference of the Latin America Network on Drug Studies (REDESDAL)
Latin American academics working on illicit drugs meet for the first conference of the Latin America Network on Drug Studies (REDESDAL) in Mexico City.
Find out more »August 2019
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.
Find out more »July 2019
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 »Consortium workshop 2019
This project-wide workshop brings together the Drugs and (dis)order team from four countries to share emerging findings and plan for the year ahead.
Find out more »January 2019
Researching violence and illicit economies: methods, ethics and security
This workshop asked challenging questions about the tensions and trade-offs of researching violence and illicit economies.
Find out more »November 2018
Myanmar workshop 2018
Bringing together the Myanmar partners to start analysing the first round of fieldwork, and build capacities on methodological approaches, visual storytelling, geo-spacial analysis and stakeholder mapping.
Find out more »June 2018
The first International Advisory Group meeting
The group's first meeting to discuss key project questions, research, capacity building, policy engagement and governance.
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.
Find out more »Consortium workshop 2018
The first project-wide annual meeting, aimed at developed shared project vision, goals and methods.
Find out more »February 2018
Colombia workshop 2018
Bringing together the country partners to assess Colombia's emerging research agenda and policy context, as well as capacity building on geo-spacial imagery and visualising data through multi-media outputs.
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