Large scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) impact women: loss of rights and access to land, water resources, fuel wood, adequate shelter, compensation and livelihood.
The wide swath of political actions, including those that renegotiate gender through the appropriation of digital space, tend to be “fragments” of micro-power that do not necessarily add up to making a political agora.
Organizational strengthening and governance activities in the fisheries and fish farming sectors have brought together all the stakeholders involved in fish value chains and contributed to the approval of tools that will impact the development of
Using Social Networking Analysis (SNA) and case studies from Cape Town in abalone trafficking, protection racketeering, and drug trafficking, the presentation analyses criminal enterprise in terms of organised crime that identifies and assumes a p
Dakar is increasingly proving to be a transit zone in international drug trafficking. This brings about interactions between organized crime and public institutions.
Criminal governance in the abalone trade takes various forms.
The presentation reviews criminal markets and networks in Dakar from the policing point of view, and media and public opinion.
A two day International Workshop on Peace and Development brought together researchers and academics from Canada, USA, Africa, Asia and South America.
This paper examines protection racketeering in Cape Town, primarily in the central business district (CBD) and on the Cape Flats, two areas in which protection racketeering is evident despite their markedly different socio-economic profiles.
Current perceptions of organised crime are too rigid and narrow. Organised crime should be re-defined to comprise a set of core activities which should encompass the ancillary acts of those who assist core actors.