UNU research focuses on the challenges faced by the United Nations and its Member States. Our current research portfolio supports all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 to inspire global action to overcome the world’s biggest challenges.
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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Assessing the Threat and Developing Solutions
Improving the international response in situations where crime and conflict intersected.
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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Centrifugal Forces - Exploring the Nexus of Global Illicit Flows and Local Conflict Dynamics
A new framework for thinking about the nexus of global illicit flows and local conflict dynamics.
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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Libya - a Patchwork State Sewn Together Along Trafficking Lines
Exploring the nexus of global illicit flows and local conflict dynamics.
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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Going Straight: Criminal Spoilers, Gang Truces and Negotiated Transitions to Lawful Order
The role of negotiation in contexts where crime and conflict intersect.
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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Criminal Agendas and Peace Negotiations - The Case of Colombia
How the FARC and the Government of Colombia have charted a way forward with respect to criminal agendas in the context of peace negotiations.
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Crime-Conflict Nexus: The Hellish Road to Good Intentions - How To Break Political-Criminal Alliances in Contexts of Transition
How a sharpened analysis can reduce the role of illicit economies and crime in post-conflict and regime-change situations.
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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Myanmar Maneuvers: How To Break Political-Criminal Alliances in Contexts of Transition
Policy recommendations to act against Myanmar’s illicit economies for the remaining time of Suu Kyi’s five-year term.
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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Afghanistan Affectations: How To Break Political-Criminal Alliances in Contexts of Transition
Four possible inflection points where the international community and Afghan government could have fundamentally altered the course.
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Civil War Trends and the Changing Nature of Armed Conflict
Guiding adaptations in conflict management tools for international entities.
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The Rise of High-Level Panels: Implications for the New UN Secretary-General
The evolving UN experience with high-level panels, the types of impact they have had, and how they might prove most valuable going forward.