Drug Trafficking and Border Governance Responses to Countering It
Channel: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Date: 2023-03-17

Session Objectives:

• Understand the key actors involved in drugs trafficking and place their activities into local political and economic contexts.
• Explore the ways that drug trafficking affects and involves different members of border communities, both in terms of the harms that certain people experience, as well as the benefits that certain people may reap by being proximate to this criminal market.
• Discuss the ways that security sector actors can use border governance frameworks and approaches to insecurity to address drug trafficking.

Panelists:

Mr. John Pokoo
(Head of Conflict Management Programme, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC))

Dr. John Ndugutse
(Director, East African Police Chiefs Coordination Organization (EAPCCO) Counterterrorism Center of Excellence)

Moderator:

Dr. Catherine Lena Kelly
(Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Justice and Rule of Law, Africa Center for Strategic Studies)

Click here for the Program webpage, with recommended readings and panelist biographies:
https://africacenter.org/programs/2022ctoc-bc-border-governance-approaches-countering-transnational-organized-crime/#session5

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