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Organised Crime

Research report

16th June 2025
As geopolitical fragmentation deepens, conflicts are increasing in complexity and number, and internationalising in new ways as states, armed groups, ...

Event

12th June 2025
Following the conclusion of the Chatham House XCEPT research initiative, this event unpacks key findings and explores how policymakers can better resp...

Blog

26th March 2025
Syria’s new government has moved quickly to curtail Hezbollah’s movements of weapons, money, contraband, and people through Syria.

Blog

20th March 2025
In an interview, Mohanad Hage Ali talks about the Captagon trade’s impact on state institutions.

Briefing paper

19th March 2025
Lebanon’s financial collapse and the Syrian conflict have allowed for the growth of an illicit economy, giving rise to a new breed of drug traffickers...

Blog

21st February 2025
Migrant smuggling and trafficking has flourished through Libya since its 2011 conflict. This article explains how this happened and why European polic...

Research report

13th February 2025
A pervasive conflict economy has developed in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. Migrant smuggling and human trafficking became a key vecto...

Research report

18th November 2024
This paper examines how Iraq and Jordan are addressing the Captagon trade within their borders, outlines current gaps in the literature on Captagon, a...

Blog

15th October 2024
The contestation over gold – and its connection to transnational networks – is becoming a major driver of Ethiopia’s complex conflicts.

Research report

31st July 2024
This XCEPT research paper examines how armed conflict in Libya shapes the Agadez mobility economy.

Research report

24th July 2024
This XCEPT research paper from Chatham House explores how the movement of people from Edo State fuels the Libyan conflict economy

Publication

22nd July 2024
This XCEPT rapid literature review looks at how recent clashes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and related instability impact the military and powe...

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