New research addressing the paramilitary-organised crime nexus in war-to-peace transitions

In this new series of publications, Dr Patrick Meehan (HCRI, University of Manchester) and Professor Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS) explore policy approaches and responses to paramilitaries and organised crime in war-to-peace transitions. The research offers policymakers, practitioners and others working in or on contexts affected by the paramilitary-organised crime nexus insights and tools to better understand the phenomenon and to move beyond template-based responses towards context-specific, politically informed strategies. Such strategies recognise paramilitaries as durable political actors, tak