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Grasping the Links in the Chain: Understanding the Unintended Consequences of International Counter-Narcotics Measures for the EU.
Start date:2012-02-01
End date:2015-01-31
Project Acronym:LINKSCH
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW | |
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Name:Joe |
University Avenue GLASGOW UNITED KINGDOM Region:SCOTLAND DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY, STRATHCLYDE Strathclyde |
| Tel:+44-1413303884 | |
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| URL:http://www.gla.ac.uk | Organization Type: |
Description
Objective:
Since the end of the Cold War there has been an explosion in the international drugs market and a consequent general desire to review and reform the existing international control regime. Academic understanding of the role of the drugs market in the international economy has increased, but the cumulative impact of counter-narcotics measures in transit chain countries between source and market remain poorly understood, nor are there many comparative studies of the manner that differing illicit drug economies work. These factors remain obstacles to understanding and eliminating the unintended consequences of current counter-narcotic policies, particularly since supply and demand-based counter narcotics measures are separated by the intermediary impact of the geographical 'transit chain' in most cases.
This proposal offers the novelty of undertaking a comparative strategic study of two major drug markets, heroin and marijuana, through the prism of the transit chains that currently operate between Afghanistan and the EU and North Africa and the EU respectively, with a view to then evolving a more comprehensive counter-narcotics policy aimed at minimising the proliferation of unintended consequences. The proposal aims to bring this about via a combination of building up an up-to-date strategic model of how these two drugs markets currently operate, conducting interviews with counter-narcotics practicioners and field research in both the source and transit chain countries concerned, and then disseminating this research in the form of concrete policy recommendations via conference activity and publications, including a collection of conference papers and at least one major monograph.
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Project Details
Start date:2012-02-01
End date:2015-01-31
Duration:36 months
Project Reference:285073
Project cost:1067166 EURO
Project Funding:881742 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-SECURITY
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Understanding of unintended consequences of global illicit-drug control measures â Capability Project
Contract type:Small or medium-scale focused research project
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Subject index:Security
Other participants
| Organization name:UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM | |
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Name:Regina |
AM NEUEN PALAIS POTSDAM DEUTSCHLAND Region:BRANDENBURG Potsdam, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-3319771080 | |
| Fax:+49-3319771298 | |
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| URL:http://www.uni-potsdam.de | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE | |
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Name:Franck |
Rue Michel -Ange 75794 PARIS FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Paris |
| Tel:+33-149604021 | |
| Fax:+33-149604146 | |
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| Organization name:SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | |
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Name:Jonathan |
THORNHAUGH STREET RUSSEL SQUARE LONDON UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON |
| Tel:+44-2078984483 | |
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| URL:http://www.soas.ac.uk | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:VAN DER VEEN HANS TAEKE (VISIBLE HAND RESEARCH) | |
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Name:Hans Taeke |
ADMIRALENGRACHT AMSTERDAM NEDERLAND Region:WEST-NEDERLAND NOORD-HOLLAND Groot-Amsterdam |
| Tel:+31-203375729 | |
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| Organization name:COVENTRY UNIVERSITY | |
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Name:Eva |
PRIORY STREET COVENTRY UNITED KINGDOM Region:WEST MIDLANDS |
| Tel:+44-2476888477 | |
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| URL:http://www.coventry.ac.uk | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:THORNLEY MANSFIELD LTD | |
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Name:David |
QUEEN ANNE TERRACE 22 NORTH HILL PLYMOUTH UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH WEST (UK) CORNWALL, DEVON Devon |
| Tel:+44-1413303884 | |
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| URL:http://www.davidmansfield.org | Organization Type: |
Record control number:102364
