Deep Dive: Recent Episodes
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
From drug trafficking to human smuggling and from cybercrime to illegal mining. The Deep Dive podcast takes an in depth look at transnational organized crime investigations from the Global Initiative, drawing on the range of expertise from the GI Network of over 500 experts.
How will the ongoing violent Islamist insurgency in the Cabo Delgado region of Northern Mozambique overlap with the organized criminal networks that operate in the area. How has the corruption within the Mozambican state contributed to the growth of the insurgency?
Presenter: Lindy Mtongana (https://twitter.com/lindymtongana?lang=en)
Guests:
Professor Adriano Nuvunga (https://twitter.com/adriano_nuvunga?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) , Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development and a leading civil society activist in Mozambique
Simone Haysom (https://globalinitiative.net/experts/simone-haysom/) , Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, researching the role of foreign organised crime groups in Africa.
Alastair Nelson (https://globalinitiative.net/experts/alastair-nelson/) , Senior Analyst who Coordinates the GI’s Resilience Fund work in Mozambique
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (https://globalinitiative.net/)
Destruction or Theft? Between 2014 and 2017, the Islamic State group occupied territory in Iraq. At it's height it controlled almost a third of the country and over 4,500 historical sites.
Alongside the dramatic pictures of the destruction of artefacts and irreplaceable ancient sites like Nimrud, others have claimed that this destruction was largely carried out to conceal extensive looting of valuable artefacts.
Presenters: Laura Adal and Jack Meegan-Vickers
Guests:
Colin P. Clarke (https://thesoufancenter.org/team/colin-p-clarke/) , Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center and Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Christina Schori Liang (https://www.gcsp.ch/Christina-Schori-Liang) , Head of Terrorism and PVE at GCSP.
ATHAR Project (http://atharproject.org/)