Crime and Instability: Case Studies of Transnational Threats

By United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Updated: 07/06/2010

1789-300x199By, UN Office on Drugs and Crime, 2010.

Organized crime and attendant illicit trafficking has undermined the rule of law in various regions around Africa and become both cause and symptom of instability and conflict. Efforts to confront these challenges are too often merely national or bilateral in scope, against which the transnational complexity and sophistication of criminal networks has proven very resilient. Download the Article: [PDF]