The Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism (CST) is delighted to be hosting this virtual roundtable on the topic: 'Strategic Responses to Organized Crime: Lessons from the Americas'.
This will take place on Wednesday 14th October, 1pm-2pm, live on Microsoft Teams. The event is open to attend upon registration - and you can use this Event Registration Form to do so.
Chaired by Dr Edward Burke (CST, University of Nottingham), the Centre will be inviting the following guest speakers:
Panellists
Dr Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program, Brookings.
Mr Steven Dudley, co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, and senior fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies; American University, Washington, D.C.
Respondent
Professor James Cockayne, Professor of Global Politics & Anti-Slavery, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
Biographies
Mr Steven Dudley is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, and a senior fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, D.C. He is the former Bureau Chief of The Miami Herald in the Andean Region and the author of Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Routledge 2004). Dudley has also reported from Haiti, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba and Miami for National Public Radio and The Washington Post, among others.
Dudley has a BA in Latin American History from Cornell University and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 2007, and is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. In 2012 to 2013, he was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His second book, MS-13: The Making of the World’s Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins), was published in September 2020.
Dr Vanda Felbab-Brown is a senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. She is the co-director of the Brookings series on opioids: “The Opioid Crisis in America: Domestic and International Dimensions.” Previously, she was the co-director of the Brookings project, “Improving Global Drug Policy: Comparative Perspectives Beyond UNGASS 2016,” as well as of another Brookings project, “Reconstituting Local Orders.”
Felbab-Brown is an expert on international and internal conflicts and nontraditional security threats, including insurgency, organized crime, urban violence, and illicit economies. Her fieldwork and research have covered, among others, Afghanistan, South Asia, Burma, Indonesia, the Andean region, Mexico, Morocco, Somalia, and eastern Africa. She is a senior advisor to the congressionally mandated Afghanistan Peace Process Study Group.
Felbab-Brown is the author of “The Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It” (Hurst, 2018); “Narco Noir: Mexico’s Cartels, Cops, and Corruption” (The Brookings Institution Press, 2019, forthcoming); “Militants, Criminals, and Warlords: The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder” (The Brookings Institution Press, 2018; co-authored with Shadi Hamid and Harold Trinkunas); “Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan” (Brookings Institution Press, 2013); and “Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs” (Brookings Institution Press, 2010).
She is also the author of numerous policy reports, academic articles, and opinion pieces. A frequent commentator in U.S. and international media, Felbab-Brown regularly provides congressional testimony on these issues. She has also been the recipient of numerous awards in recognition of her scholarly and policy contributions. Felbab-Brown received her doctorate in political science from MIT and her bachelor’s in government from Harvard University.
Professor James Cockayne, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. Professor James Cockayne is Professor of Global Politics and Anti-Slavery in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He currently serves as Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Human Trafficking, and Head of Secretariat for the Liechtenstein Initiative on Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking.
He is a Consulting Fellow to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and a Visiting Fellow to the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. James was previously Director of the Centre for Policy Research at United Nations University; Co-Director, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation; and Principal Legal Officer in the Transnational Crime Unit, Australian Attorney-General’s Department. He is the author of Hidden Power: The Strategic Logic of Organized Crime (Hurst/OUP: 2016), and Developing Freedom: The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery (forthcoming 2020).