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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819371803321

Titolo

Criminalized power structures : the overlooked enemies of peace / / edited by Michael Dziedzic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4422-6632-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Collana

Peace and security in the 21st century series

Disciplina

322.4/2

Soggetti

Peace-building

Crime prevention

Organized crime

Postwar reconstruction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Michael Dziedzic -- Bosnia : third entity movement / Karmen Fields and Oscar Vera -- Guatemala : the clandestine security apparatus / Carlos Castresana -- Sierra Leone : the Revolutionary United Front / Ismail Rashid -- Haiti : gangs of Cité Soleil / David Beer -- Kosovo : the Kosovo Liberation Army / Michael Dziedzic, Laura Mercean, and Elton Skendaj -- DRC : March 23 Movement / Jana Nyerges -- Afghanistan : Criminal Patronage Networks / Carl Forsberg and Tim Sullivan -- Iraq : Jaish al-Mahdi / Phil Williams and Dan Bisbee -- Colombia : paramilitaries / Jennifer S. Holmes -- Iraq : the rise, fall and persistence of the Maliki regime / Dan Bisbee -- Conclusions / Michael Dziedzic -- An overview of the international toolkit for subduing criminalized power structures / Michael Dziedzic -- Recommendations / Michael Dziedzic.

Sommario/riassunto

Criminalized power structures (CPS) are illicit networks that profit from transactions in black markets and from criminalized state institutions while perpetuating a culture of impunity. The book articulates a typology for assessing the threats of CPS and for implementing appropriate strategies to achieve sustainable peace effectively and



efficiently. A companion volume, Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit, provides practitioners with the means of coping with the challenges posed by CPS.