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Conflict Research Group-lezing: ‘Construction étatique et capitalisme de contrebande en Transnistrie

CONFLICT AND ORGANISED CRIME. COPING STRATEGY OR ‘ALTERNATIVE WARFARE’? The complexity of modern conflict situations and global security derive in no small part from different forms of organized crime that sustain the use of violence. As such, they challenge governments and law enforcement structures, private companies and aid organizations alike. Yet what is seen as a security threat by political and economic centres in the West and elsewhere, is often a coping strategy with economic and social dislocation in the global periphery. Through three cases that all affect societies and official structures in the European Union in some way, this series explores how various forms of organised crime form a reaction by populations as well as local power players to conflict and resource scarcity.

This lecture will be in French with the English text on slides. The lecture is part of a series of three (the others are on 9 and 30 March 2011). For more information, please visit www.conflictresearchgroup.be