Organized Crime
Organized Crime Transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.
2017 Alumni Scholars Announced
The Alumni Programs Office is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Marshall Center Alumni Scholarships. This year, we solicited applications from nearly 12,000 alumni, and received over 200 proposals for 8 available scholarships. The Faculty Scholarship Committee read through all...
African Illicit Commons Seminar Participants Network at ACSS Event
View photos from the event.The Africa Center for Strategic Studies hosted 19 African military and civilian leaders for an informal briefing and networking event at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 2012. The leaders were on campus as participants in the...
CONTRATULATIONS TO THE DIILS GRADUATES OF THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMBATING CORRUPTION COURSE
DIILS graduated 24 students from the 2020 LCC Course. Countries represented were Cameroon, Egypt, Guatemala, Maldives, Philippines, Kenya, Lithuania, Slovak Republic, Moldova, Mongolia, Republic of North Macedonia, Nigeria, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, Burkina Faso and Zambia. LCC is a three-...
Counternarcotics Seminar Session Focuses on Rule of Law and Corruption
View Photos From This Event. Guest speakers discussed the rule of law and anticorruption measures during a session of the four-day Countering Narcotics and the Illicit Commons symposium organized by the Africa Center and three other regional Department of Defense academic centers...
Counternarcotics Symposium Participants Asked to Share Knowledge During Closing Ceremony
Fifty-eight military and civilian officials from 32 countries received certificates for completing a four-day counternarcotics and transnational threats symposium on Feb. 16, 2012, at National Defense University in Washington, D.C. Four U.S. Department of Defense academic centers—Africa...
Defense Official Calls for More Cooperation Against Trafficking During Symposium Opening
View Photos From This Event. The only way for the world to counter the expanding international criminal drug trade is for nations to work together, a senior U.S. Defense Department official said during the opening of a transnational threats symposium in Washington, D.C., on...
Fast Facts: Countering Transnational Organized Crime 18-14
By Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Aug. 2, 2018) – The Marshall Center is hosting the Program on Countering Transnational Organized Crime 18-14 from Aug. 2 to 24. The Program on Countering Transnational...
February 2016 Global Countering Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) Alumni Community of Interest Workshop
The Marshall Center conducted its latest Global Countering Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) Alumni Community of Interest (COI) Workshop, 1-4 February 2016, on the topic of “Examining Anti-Corruption Policies, Measures, and Solutions”. This COI brought together 71 security...
GCMC and CEMA University in Argentina Hold VTC on Counterterrorism
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017, the Marshall Center and the CEMA University in Buenos Aires conducted a VTC as part of a CEMA conference on "Transnational Threats: Narcotics and Terrorism". Marshall Center PTSS Program Director James Howcroft spoke via VTC to the audience in Argentina on...
Global Law Enforcement Professionals Strategize Ways to Counter Transnational Organized Crime at Marshall Center
By James E. Brooks, George C. Marshall European Center Public Affairs Director GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Aug. 28, 2017) – Give any one of the 78 law enforcement professionals who graduated from the George C. Marshall European Center’s Countering Transnational Organized Crime course...
Marshall Center Alumni Spark Policy Change, Big Criminal Busts
By Christine June GCMC Public Affairs GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (March 2, 2017) – More than a half-a-million dollars was seized and several criminals arrested in the first and second stand-alone money-laundering busts in Trinidad and Tobago in November 2016. This historical bust...
Marshall Center Course Strengthens Language Skills to Fight Organized Crime
By Christine June GCMC Public Affairs GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (May 9, 2017) – Dr. Ion Nastas, who is tasked with preventing and combating corruption in his country, has an answer for those who ask him why he needs to speak English since he works in the Republic of Moldova and...
Marshall Center Educates Security Professionals to Counter International Illicit Threat Networks
By Christine June Public Affairs Office George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (March 8, 2019) – International illicit threat networks operate with the intent to cause great harm to people, resulting in mass causalities, said the Deputy...
Marshall Center’s Combating Transnational Crime Course ‘Brings Strategies to Life’
By Christine June GCMC Public Affairs GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Dec. 15, 2016) – Packing tools to bring strategies to life, 90 practitioners are heading home to 52 countries after graduating from the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies’ Program on Countering...
Marshall Center’s Seminar Encourages First Line of Defense in the Fight Against Corruption
By Christine June GCMC Public Affairs KYIV, Ukraine (April 17, 2017)—Nane Harutyunyan, a lawyer with the Ministry of Justice in Armenia, wrote notes, asked questions and researched in the evenings because she knew the “Black Sea-Eurasia Region Countering Corruption Seminar” she was...
Narco-States: Africa's Next Menace
Op-Ed Contributor Narco-States: Africa's Next Menace By DAVIN O'REGAN Since emerging as Africa’s first narco-state in the mid 2000s, Guinea Bissau’s slide toward instability has been swift and precipitous. The homicide rate has spiked by 25 percent and is now...
NESA-AFRICOM 2023 Workshop Series and NESA Center Women, Peace, and Security E-Book Release
From 29 April – 6 May 2023, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, in partnership with U.S. Africa Command, held three back-to-back workshop series in Bangkok, Thailand, for senior government and civilian security experts and a “whole of society” approach from 24...
NESA-AFRICOM Transnational Threats Part II/II: A Look at Shared Illicit Activities – Illegal Mining, Cultural Smuggling, and Wildlife Crime Online Roundtable
On 4 October 2023, NESA Center Professor Anne Moisan and Academic Specialist Fahad Malaikah conducted the“Transnational Threats: A Look at Shared Illicit Activities – Illegal Mining, Cultural Smuggling, and Wildlife Crime”online roundtable, the last in the series of in-person and online...
New Africa Security Brief Released
As in much of Africa, the vast majority of security threats facing Nigeria are internal, often involving irregular forces such as insurgents, criminal gangs, and violent religious extremists. Effectively combating such threats requires cooperation from local communities—cooperation limited by...
Perry Center Professor Conducts Counterterrorism Financing and Anti-Money Laundering Seminar in Panama
Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo conducted a counterterrorism financing and anti-money laundering seminar titled “Following the Money Trail to Combat Terrorism, Crime and Corruption” for the Superintendency of Banks of Panama on April 10, 2017 in Panama City, Panama in collaboration with...
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The Evolving Role of the Security Forces to Counter Transnational Organized Crime in the America
As transnational organized crime increasingly presents a national security threat throughout Latin America, governments must re-examine the roles and responsibilities of their security forces, both military and police, to ensure the welfare, security, prosperity and sovereignty of their countries....
The Rapid Evolution of the MS-13 in El Salvador and Honduras from Gang to Tier-One Threat to Central American and US Security Interests
The Mara Salvatrucha (MS 13) gang is now a tier one criminal, political, military and economic threat in the Northern Triangle. While it employs differing strategies from country to country, the organization nonetheless competes with – and often defeats – the state in important theaters of...
Tácticas Terroristas en Organizaciones Criminales: El Caso de México
Coches bomba que lanzan esquirlas en áreas urbanas repletas de gente y que son detonados en forma remota desde celulares. Cuerpos torturados con mensajes amenazadores dirigidos al público o al gobierno. Políticos acribillados a balazos por su trabajo. Estas escenas parecen evocar a Siria o...
China's Rise, Russia and Color Revolutions, Central Asian Power Transfer, Ukraine and its Impact on the Security of Russia and Europe. WINTER 2014
European and Eurasian Security: Viewpoints from Russia Connectionspresents diverse views on defense and security by authors from NATO and partner countries from the Partnership for Peace and beyond. For this particular issue we invited authors from universities and research centers of the...
Organized Crime. SUMMER 2016
The Summer 2016 issue of Connections is dedicated to the study of organized crime (OC). The lead article presents a study of the activities of organized crime groups in a megacity--Karachi--elaborating on their involvement in the implementation of impotantant governance functions and the local...
Foreign Terrorist Fighters. Countering Terrorism. FALL 2017
The Fall 2017 issue of Connections presents researches on NATO Strategy for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations and on countering terrorism in India, North and South Caucasus.
The Downsides of Digital Revolution: Confronting Africa’s Evolving Cyber Threats
The recently published report, "The Downsides of Digital Revolution: Confronting Africa’s Evolving Cyber Threats," examines four kinds of cyber-enabled threats: organized crime, critical infrastructure sabotage, espionage/surveillance and armed conflict innovation. The report was sponsored...
Brookings Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors
On 27 January 2023, The Brookings Institution released part I of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors annual briefing book. The newly released commentary discusses some of the key trends, issues, and priority areas regarding illicit economies, organized crime, and nonstate armed actors and...
Global Organized Crime Index 2023
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime released the Global Organized Crime Index 2023 whichfocuses on resilience and includes some newinteractivefeatures. The Global Organized Crime Index 2023 reveals the continuing rise of organized crime globally, with 83% of the world's...
Alumni Publication: “Analysis of Money Laundering in Sri Lanka: A National Security Saboteur" by Charani Patabendige
On 30 October 2023, theInternational Journal of Security Studies & Practice at the University of North Georgia Institute for Leadership and Strategic Studies published NESA Center alumna Charani Patabendige's article titled“Analysis of Money Laundering in Sri Lanka: A National Security Saboteur...
Africa Organised Crime Index 2023
The ENACT Africa Organised Crime Index 2023 highlights longitudinal data trends and resilience to organised crime across the continent. The ENACT Index is a tool that measures and assesses levels of organised crime on the continent. It ranks the 54 countries on the continent according to their...