Crime and Conflict - Achim Wennmann
Channel: GSDRC
Date: 2015-05-18

This video accompanies the GSDRC Professional Development Reading pack on Crime and Conflict, available at: http://www.gsdrc.org/professional-dev/crime-and-conflict/

Practitioners increasingly recognise that they need a better understanding of the link between crime and conflict. Many informal accounts suggest the political power of organised crime groups in violent and fragile contexts is growing. In the absence of functioning institutions and strong state-society relations, organised crime groups infiltrate local and national political systems to serve their needs and, in the process, affect peacebuilding, statebuilding, and development efforts supported by national governments and the international community.

Dr Achim Wennmann is a researcher at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is an expert in economic perspectives on violent conflict, dispute resolution, and peacebuilding. He is the author of ‘Negotiated Exits from Organized Crime? Building Peace in Conflict and Crime-affected Contexts’ (Negotiation Journal, 2014), and of The Political Economy of Peacemaking (Routledge, 2011). Achim has held advisory roles for international organisations, government, business, and private foundations. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Global Governance, and Executive Coordinator of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform.