Séminaire sur la lutte contre la criminalité transnationale organisée
Seminário sobre o Combate ao Crime Organizado Transnacional
January 13–17 janvier 2020
Niamey, Niger
Information Note / Document d’information / Nota Informativa : EN | FR | POR
Schedule / Calendrier / Horário : EN | FR | POR
Syllabus / Programme Détaillé / Programa : EN | FR | POR
Simulation Exercise / Exercise de simulation / Exercício de Simulação : EN | FR | POR
Biographies / Biographies: EN | FR | POR
Executive Summary: EN | FR | POR
Overview
Presented by:
Session 1: The Political Economy of Transnational Organized Crime: Drivers, Patterns, and Consequences
Presented by:
Recommended Reading:
- Mark Shaw, Africa’s Changing Place in the Global Criminal Economy, L’évolution de la place de l’Afrique dans l’économie criminelle mondiale, ENACT Continental Report 1, September 2017.
- Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Organized Crime Index Africa 2019
Additional Materials:
- Mark Shaw & Stephen Ellis, Does Organized Crime Exist in Africa? African Affairs 114 (2015), 505-528.
Session 2: Gateways to Transnational Organized Crime through Enabling Crimes
Presented by:
Recommended Reading:
- Interpol, Overview of Serious and Organized Crime in Africa, Evaluation stratégique de la criminalité organisée en Afrique 2018, ENACT Analytical Report 29, October 29, 2018. Please read “Executive Summary,” “Enabling Crimes and Criminal Convergences,” and “Illicit Flows of Money and Assets.”
- Serigne Mamba Guèye, Connections between Jihadist Groups and Sumuggling and Illegal Trafficking Rings in the Sahel, Connexions entre groupes djihadistes et réseaux de contrebandes et de trafics illictes dans le Sahel, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2017. Please read pp. 13-24.
Additional Materials:
- Richard Chelin, Southern Africa: Three Key Organized Crime Threats, ENACT Observer, July 10, 2019.
- Global Counterterrorism Forum, The Hague Good Practices on the Nexus Between Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism, Bonnes pratiques de la Haye sur les liens entre la criminalité transnationale organisée et le terrorisme
Session 3: Human Trafficking
Presented by:
- Ms. ‘Kemi Okenyodo (Slides: EN | FR | POR)
- Ms. Gogé Maimouna Gazibo (Slides: EN | FR | POR)
Recommended Reading:
- Lucia Bird & Tuesday Reitano, Trafficking in Persons in Conflict Contexts: What is a Realistic Response from Africa, ENACT Consortium Policy Brief, June 20, 2019.
- Ekaterina Golovko, Players of Many Parts: The evolving role of smugglers in West Africa’s Migration Economy, Des acteurs aux multiples rôles: L’évolution des rôles des passeurs dans l’industrie de la migration en Afrique de l’Ouest, Mixed Migration Center, June 2019.
- Bram Fouws & Christopher Horwood, Smuggled South: An updated overview of mixed migration from the Horn of Africa to Southern Africa with specific focus on protection risks, human smuggling, and trafficking, Danish Refugee Council, March 2017.
Additional Materials:
Session 4: Natural Resource Theft and Poaching
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Recommended Reading:
- Christopher Vandome & Alex Vines, Tackling Illegal Wildlife Trade in Africa: Economic Incentives and Approaches, Chatham House Africa Programme Research Paper, October 2018.
- African Union, African Strategy on Combating Illegal Exploitation and Illegal Trade in Wild Flora and Fauna in Africa, Stratégie Africaine sur la lutte contre l’Exploitation Illégale et le Commerce Illicite de la Faune et de la Flore Sauvages en Afrique, May 2015.
- André Standing, Criminality in Africa’s Fishing Industry: A Threat to Human Security, La criminalité dans la pèche commerciale en Afrique, Criminalidade na indústria pesqueira de África, Africa Security Brief 33, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, June 6, 2017.
Additional Materials:
- Vanda Felbab-Brown, Wildlife and Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, and Human Security, PRISM 7:4, 124-136.
- Hassoum Cisse, Laurent Kadima Mavinga, Jackson Miller, Oscar Nkala, Riana Raymonde Radrianariosa, Tuesday Reitano & Babar Turay, Razing Africa: Combating Criminal Consortia in the Logging Sector, ENACT Research Paper 6, September 2018.
- Deo Gumba, Cattle Rustling, Drought, and Conflict: Is Regional Policy the Missing Link, ENACT Observer Trend Reports, March 29, 2018.
Session 5: Drug Trafficking and Goods Smuggling
Presented by:
- Dr. Anouar Boukhars (Slides: EN | FR | POR)
- Deputy-Chief (ret) Ousmane Ndiaye (Slides: EN | FR | POR)
Recommended Reading:
- Kwesi Aning & John Pokoo, Understanding the nature and threats of drug trafficking to national and regional security in West Africa, Trafic de drogue et menaces pour la sécurité nationale et régionale en Afrique de l’Ouest, Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 3:1, 2014.
- Mark Shaw, Simone Haysom & Peter Gastrow, Tackling Heroin Trafficking on the East African Coast, Combater o tráfico de heroína na costa da África Oriental, ENACT Policy Brief 4, June 2018.
- Alexander Babuta & Cathy Haenlein, Commodity Smuggling in the Maghreb: A Silent Threat, Policy Centre for the New South, May 2018.
Session 6: Citizen and Community-Based Approaches to Response
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Recommended Reading:
- Mark Shaw & Tuesday Reitano, People’s Perspectives of Organized Crime in West Africa and the Sahel, Points de vue de la population sur la criminalité organisée dans l’Afrique de l’Ouest et le Sahel, A perspectiva da populacão em relacão ao crime organizado na África Ocidental e no Sahel, Institute for Security Studies – Africa Paper 254, 2014.
- Dominic Naish, Security and Conflict Management in the African Borderlands: A People-Centered Approach, African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), April 24, 2017.
Session 7: Linking Local Realities of TNOC to National Security Strategy
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Recommended Reading:
- Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, National Security Policies, Les politiques de sécurité nationale, SSR Backgrounder Series, 2015.
- Emile Ouedraogo, National Security Strategy Development Burkina Faso Case Study (Preliminary Draft), L’élaboration d’une stratégie de sécurité nationale, étude de cas de Burkina Faso (Brouillon), July 2018.
Session 8: Leveraging Military, Police, and Judicial Capabilities within Borders
Presented by:
- Deputy-Chief (ret) Ousmane Ndiaye (Slides: EN | FR | POR)
- Mr. Ronnie Matatiken (Slides: EN | FR | POR)
Recommended Reading:
- UN Security Sector Reform Task Force, Key Areas of Security Sector Reform to Tackle Transnational Organized Crime, in Security Sector Reform Integrated Technical Guidance Notes: Transnational Organized Crime and Security Sector Reform, 2016. Please read pp. 16-39.
- Choose one of the following:
- Constanze Blum, Complex Networks of Organized Crime and the Need for New Tools, in Transnational Organized Crime in Southern Africa and Mozambique, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2016. Please read pp. 20-30.
- Tim Goudsmid, Andrea Mancini & Andres Vanegas Canosa, Security Sector Reform, Crime, and Regional Development in West Africa, in Albrecht Schnabel & Vanessa Farr, eds. Back to the Roots: Security Sector Reform and Development, DCAF, 2012. Please read pp. 147-148, 156-165.
Session 9: Coordinating Responses across Borders
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Recommended Reading:
- African Union, Communique of the 845th Peace and Security Council meeting on Organized Transnational Crime, Peace, and Security in Africa, Communiqué du 845ème réunion tenue le 25 avril 2019 sur la criminalité transnationale organisée, la paix, et sécurité en Afrique
- Olga Biegus & Christian Beuger, Poachers and Pirates: Improving Coordination of the Global Response to Wildlife Crime, South African Crime Quarterly 60, June 2017.
- UN Security Sector Reform Task Force, Integrated Capacity Building, in Security Sector Reform Integrated Technical Guidance Notes: Transnational Organized Crime and Security Sector Reform, 2016. Please read pp. 8-12.
Additional Materials:
- Ian Ralby, Cooperative security to counter cooperative criminals, DefenceIQ, March 21, 2017.