CSD2014 Conference Programme

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CSD2014

Organised Crime in Conflict Zones 2014 Conflict, Security and Development Conference

Thursday 6 March 2014 King's College London, Strand Campus, Great Hall

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About CSD2014 The 2014 ‘Organised Crime in Conflict Zones Conference’ is a joint initiative of postgraduate students from the Conflict, Security and Development (CSD) programme at King’s College London (KCL) and the War Studies Department. The one‐day conference will focus on transnational organised crime – a multi‐billion pound global business and an area of growing international concern. The programme will address the conflict‐crime nexus and focus on three key areas of organised crime. These are drug trafficking, terrorist criminality and human trafficking. The conference objective is to address gaps in policy and scholarship, and to encourage research into this subject of growing relevance. The event will provide an opportunity for students to engage with leading policymakers, practitioners and academics in the field. It will also offer a networking opportunity for recruiters and students. By organising the first CSD Conference at King’s, we intend to lay the foundations for a tradition that will be followed by future CSD students. We are confident that the event will become an important annual fixture in the London foreign policy calendar. Website: http://www.csd2014.wordpress.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/csd2014 Twitter: @CSD2014

King’s College London King’s College London is the fourth oldest university in England and one of the top 20 universities in the world, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) international world ranking. King’s has partnerships with universities from all over the world, in every continent. With over 10,000 postgraduates and students from 140 countries, it is a multicultural centre of excellence with global reach and presence. King’s provides world‐class teaching and cutting‐edge research, as one of the top seven UK universities for research earnings and member of the prestigious Russell Group in the United Kingdom.

Conflict, Security and Development M.A. Programme The CSD postgraduate programme in the KCL War Studies Department is led by Professor Mats Berdal. The programme explores the conceptual, historical and policy issues surrounding security and development, and how these manifest themselves in the wider context of contemporary warfare and international security. The programme aims to give students a detailed understanding of real conflict scenarios, while providing a well‐informed theoretical framework to approach case studies. CSD teaching staff have an extensive network of links with other departments, think tanks, policy‐making bodies and international institutions.

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AGENDA 6 MARCH, 2014

THE GREAT HALL, STRAND CAMPUS, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

9.30 Registration

10.00 OPENING KEYNOTE

Speaker: Professor Mats Berdal, Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Research Group, King’s College London

10.30 PANEL: THE CONFLICT‐CRIME NEXUS

Speakers: Nigel Inkster, Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk, International Institute for Strategic Studies

Lt. Gen. Jonathan Riley, Former Honorary Colonel of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and Expert Witness, International Criminal Court, The Hague

Holly Clark, Head of the Organised Crime International Team, Office for Security and Counter‐Terrorism, UK Home Office

Chair: Ana Maria Albulescu, MPhil/PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London

11.30 Coffee Break

12.00 PANEL: DRUG TRAFFICKING

Speakers: Charlie Edwards, Director of National Security and Resilience Studies, Royal United Services Institute

Dr Axel Klein, Lecturer in the Anthropology of Conflict, Criminal Justice and Policy, University of Kent

Professor George Philip, Professor of Comparative and Latin American Politics, The London School of Economics

Chair: Dr Domitilla Sagramoso, Lecturer in Security and Development, King’s College London

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13.00 Lunch

14.00 PANEL: TERRORIST CRIMINALITY

Speakers: Patrick Stevens, Head of International Division, Crown Prosecution Service

Antônio Sampaio, Research Analyst for Latin America, International Institute for Strategic Studies

Chair: Francisco Mazzola, PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London

15.00 PANEL: HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Speakers: Dr Kevin B. Bales, Consultant to the United Nations Global Program on Trafficking of Human Beings and Co‐Founder of Free the Slaves

Dr Lynellyn D. Long, Chair of Trustees at Her Equality, Rights and Autonomy and former Chief of Mission of the International Organisation for Migration in Bosnia‐Herzegovina

Parosha Chandran, Human Rights Barrister at 1 Pump Court and Co‐Founder of the Trafficking Law and Policy Forum

Chair: Dr Kieran Mitton, Lecturer in International Relations, King’s College London

16.00 CLOSING KEYNOTE

Speaker: Dr Mark Shaw, Director of the Global Initiative Against Organized Crime and Director of Communities, Crime and Conflicts, STATT Consulting

16.30 Drinks Reception

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Speaker Profiles

Opening Keynote

Professor Mats Berdal joined the War Studies Department of King’s College London in 2003 as Professor of

Security and Development. From 2000 to 2003 he was Director of Studies at the International Institute for

Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He directs the Conflict, Security and Development Research Group

(CSDRG) and is the Programme Director for the MA in Conflict, Security and Development. He is also a

member of the Academia Europaea.

PANEL 1. The Conflict‐Crime Nexus

Nigel Inkster is Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the International Institute for Strategic

Studies (IISS). Previously, Nigel served for 31 years in the British Secret intelligence Service (SIS). He had

postings in Asia, Latin America and Europe and worked extensively on transnational security issues. He was

on the Board of SIS (commonly known as MI6) for seven years, the last two as Assistant Chief and Director

for Operations and Intelligence. He is currently Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Committee on

Terrorism.

Lt. Gen. Jonathon Riley is a former honorary Colonel of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He commanded British

peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Iraq & Afghanistan. He also served for two years from 2007 as

the deputy commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF). He is on hold as

an expert witness for the ICC and is currently a visiting professor at King’s College London.

Holly Clark is Head of the Organised Crime International Team at the UK Home Office’s Office for Security

and Counter‐Terrorism. She is responsible for the international aspects of the Serious and Organised Crime

Strategy, working to improve UK capabilities overseas and our cooperation with international partners to

better tackle organised criminal networks. She has held a number of other positions at the Home Office,

including Head of International Drugs, Desk Officer for Afghanistan and Pakistan and Assistant Private

Secretary to the Minister for Immigration. Prior to joining the Home Office, she worked as an intelligence

researcher for Merseyside Police.

CHAIR: Ana Maria Albulescu is an MPhil/ PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies researching the

interplay between local and international dimensions of conflicts involving de‐facto states. She has studied

International Relations at the University of Birmingham and holds an MA in International Conflict Studies

from KCL. She is interested in conflict dynamics and transnational threats in South‐East Europe and the role

of education and employment in mitigating their societal effects. She has worked on education outreach and

employment generation projects in the region through collaborations with the Institute for Strategic

Dialogue in London, the European Social Fund and local NGOs.

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PANEL 2. Drug trafficking

Charlie Edwards is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the

Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on

Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including:

the evaluation and implementation of counter‐violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK

cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of

radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.

Axel Klein is a Lecturer in the Anthropology of Conflict, Criminal Justice and Policy at the University of Kent.

In 1999, Axel was a Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and moved the

following year to the European Commission as a Drug Control Officer. In 2001, he became Head of Research

at Drugscope and then in 2002, Head of UK Focal Point for the EU Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug

Addiction. He has worked with UN and EU agencies in over 30 countries (including Afghanistan, Cambodia

and Jamaica) and has published extensively on drug trafficking. He joined the University of Kent in 2005.

Professor George Philip did his BA at Oriel College, Oxford where he graduated in PPE in 1972. He then did

his doctorate at Nuffield College where he studied from 1972‐75. After a year as a research fellow at the

Institute of Latin American Studies in London, he joined the LSE in 1976. He has been here ever since, and is

now Professor of Comparative and Latin American Politics. He has edited and written in Mexico’s struggle for

public security: organised crime and state responses.

CHAIR: Dr. Domitilla Sagramoso is a Lecturer in Security and Development at the Department of War Studies.

She obtained an MA in War Studies (KCL) in 1992 and a PhD at the School of Slavonic and East European

Studies, University College London in 1999. She joined the Department in 2005, having previously been the

Principal Researcher at the Caucasus Policy Institute, within the International Policy Institute (KCL). She is an

expert on issues of violence, security and development in Russia and the Caucasus. Her most recent

publications include, “The Radicalisation of Islamic Salafi Jamaats in the North Caucasus: Moving Closer to

the Global Jihadist Movement?”, which was published by Europe‐Asia Studies, in May 2012.

PANEL 3. Terrorist Criminality

Patrick Stevens is Head of the International Division at the Crown Prosecution Service. Patrick began life as a

defence lawyer and joined the Crown Prosecution Service in 1994 as a local prosecutor in Buckinghamshire,

where he remained until 2001 when he moved to the Counter Terrorism Division. In 2007, Patrick moved to

the International Division as Deputy Head and was appointed International Director in 2008. He wrote the

CPS’ first International Strategy to include Rule of Law development work, often in challenging

environments. Today, the CPS has staff throughout the world working as part of a more focused UK

approach to the Rule of Law, on a range of thematic and regional threats.

Antônio Sampaio works as Research Analyst for Latin America at The International Institute for Strategic

Studies in London. He examines the foreign policies of key countries, regional politics, organised crime and

insurgency. Antônio has helped the IISS start its first full‐time programme of studies on Latin America,

planning and developing articles and events. He is the author of several articles and a frequent commentator

in UK and international media outlets. Antônio has a Master’s degree with distinction from the War Studies

Department, King’s College London. Prior to this, he worked as an editor at the international desk of Globo

News television, in Brazil.

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CHAIR: Francisco Mazzola is a PhD candidate at the Department of War Studies researching corruption and

patronage in post‐civil war Lebanon and the role that former militia leaders and civil society play in

maintaining informal clientelist networks of power. He studied Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies

at the University of Erlangen/ Germany and the American University of Beirut/ Lebanon. His research

interests include identity construction and conflict in the Middle East, political post‐conflict reconstruction

and dynamics of informal rule. He has previously worked for different non‐profit organisations, including the

Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Beirut.

PANEL 4. Human Trafficking

Dr. Kevin B. Bales, Co‐Founder and previously President of Free the Slaves. Consultant to the United Nations

Global Program on Trafficking of Human Beings. He has advised the US, British, Irish, Norwegian and Nepali

governments and the Economic Community of West African States on matters relating to the formulation of

policy on slavery and human trafficking. Bales edited an Anti‐Human Trafficking Toolkit for the United

Nations, and published a report on forced labour in the US with the Human Rights Centre at Berkeley.

Dr. Lynellyn D. Long is Chair of Trustees at ‘Her Equality, Rights and Autonomy’ (HERA, formerly WtW). She

was Chief of Mission of the International Organisation for Migration in Bosnia‐Herzegovina in 2000‐2002,

where she managed a programme to repatriate over 400 trafficked women. Inspired by the women’s

resilience and courage, she founded WtW in 2005 to prevent re‐trafficking and to support formerly

trafficked women in becoming economically independent. Lynellyn has researched, written, and taught

graduate courses on issues related to trafficking, migration, conflict prevention, microenterprise

development, humanitarianism, and human rights. Most recently (2010 – 2012), she served as Chief of Party

for the U.S Government Combating Violence against Women and Children programme in Egypt, organised by

Chemonics International.

Parosha Chandran is an award‐winning human rights barrister at 1 Pump Court Chambers in London and co‐

founder of the Trafficking Law and Policy Forum. She is recognised as a leading junior in her fields at the Bar

both by the Chambers and Partners Law Directory, and by the Legal 500. She is also a member of ‘The Times’

Law Panel’, a list of the 100 most influential lawyers in the UK. Parosha is the General Editor of ‘The Human

Trafficking Handbook: recognising trafficking and modern‐day slavery in the UK’. She has been involved in

projects at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, UNHCR London and

the Organisation for Security and Co‐Operation in Europe.

CHAIR: Dr. Kieran Mitton joined the Department of War Studies in 2012 as Lecturer in International

Relations, after completing an MA, MRes and PhD at King’s. Since 2007 he has worked with the Conflict

Security and Development Research Group (CSDRG), conducting extensive fieldwork with ex‐combatants in

Sierra Leone for a study of reintegration. He currently leads a new CSDRG project examining the causes and

shaping dynamics of extreme violence during conflict, and also researches narcotics trafficking in West

Africa. His book ‘Understanding Atrocity in the Sierra Leone Civil War’ is forthcoming in 2014 (Hurst/Oxford

University Press).

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Closing Keynote

Dr. Mark Shaw is Director of Communities, Crime and Conflicts at STATT Consulting, as well as Director of

The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. He has previously worked at the United Nations

Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as Inter‐Regional Adviser, Chief of the Criminal Justice Reform Unit, and

with the Global Programme against Transnational Organised Crime, with extensive field work in fragile and

post‐conflict states. He has held a number of other positions in government and civil society, including:

Director of Monitoring and Analysis in the South African Secretariat for Safety and Security, Head of the

Crime and Police Programme at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, Ford Foundation Senior Fellow

at the South African Institute of International Affairs and United States Institute of Peace Researcher on local

conflicts at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg.

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Conference Organising Committee Co‐Chairs

Kate Robertson is a Conflict, Security and Development MA student at King’s College London and a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to this, she was a Defence and Security Research Assistant at the RAND Corporation. At RAND, she produced research on areas including: ethical decision‐making in counterterrorism, the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation, and cyber‐security strategy in a number of European countries. She holds a History BA from the University of Cambridge and has worked at Bain & Company management consulting firm. Larisa Lara is an MA student in Conflict, Security and Development at King’s College London. She studied International Relations at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education at Mexico City and Sciences Po Paris as an undergraduate, and holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. She has being involved in different migration, development and security projects at the UNODC, PICUM and the Canadian Embassy. Her research currently focuses on emigration policies, the role of Diasporas in conflict zones and failed states. Olivia Armstrong is studying for a M.A. in Conflict, Security and Development at King’s College London. She is from Seattle, Washington and graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon with a degree in International Affairs with departmental honours. At Lewis and Clark College she co‐chaired the 51st International Affairs Symposium, and worked on the committee to put together the 50th International Affairs Symposium. She has previously worked as an intern to help start up the NGO New Story Leadership and as a research assistant in the International Affairs Department at Lewis and Clark College. Her research interests include: violent non‐state actors, organised crime, human rights, and diplomacy.

Public Relations Division

Hillary Briffa graduated with a first class Honours degree in International Relations from the University of Malta. Her interest in international affairs was sparked by receiving scholarship to the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Institute in North Carolina. Thereafter, she has been involved in a number of organisations ranging from the international Generation Europe Foundation and Bringing Europeans Together Association, to local initiatives such as founding the Malta Model United Nations Society. She recently completed an internship with the European Commission Representation in Malta and this year is serving as a youth ambassador to the OSCE. At present she is reading for an MA in Conflict, Security and Development at King’s College. Her research interests include frozen conflicts in Eastern Europe, small state diplomacy, soft power and media relations, and the UN system. Luciana Téllez Chávez is an MA candidate in Conflict, Security and Development at King’s College London. She is currently a researcher for the Polity Working Group, where she focuses in citizen security and organised crime in the Central American region. Amongst others, she has worked with Salamanca Group in London, human rights advocacy centres and humanitarian organisations in Nicaragua, as well as the Secretariat for Political Affairs of the Organisation of American States (OAS) in Washington D.C. Luciana holds a BA in Political Science and Latin American Studies from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo), and graduated first class from her final year as an Erasmus student at the University of Manchester.

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Logistics Division

Alex Rhona Martin completed her undergraduate degree in Modern History and Political Science at the University of Birmingham. Since graduating she has worked as a campaigns assistant for a NGO campaigning for UK nuclear disarmament and international non‐proliferation. She is now studying an MA in Conflict, Security and Development at King’s College London. Her research interests have a particular focus on Sub‐Saharan Africa and include inter‐group violence, polarisation and the role of women during and after conflict. Fanny Johanna Hoes started her academic career as a Dutch student at University College Utrecht where she obtained a degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences, with a major in International Law, International Relations, and Clinical Psychology. In 2012 she obtained her first MA degree at the University of Amsterdam in ‘Conflict Resolution and Governance’, with an honours dissertation on the US Framing of the Arab‐Israeli Conflict. Currently, she is enrolled in her second MA program, ‘Conflict, Security, and Development’ at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her main areas of interest include international security, terrorism and counter‐terrorism, and radicalisation and counter‐radicalisation.

Sponsorship Division

Melisa Tezcan is a Conflict, Security and Development MA student at King’s College London and holds a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Birmingham. Her current research is focused on emerging insecurities in post‐conflict settings, in particular where instances of conflict have resulted in a regime change. In addition to her academic pursuits Melisa works as an Operations Coordinator for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Waggener Edstrom Communications. Tala Kayed is a full time student at King’s College London, studying an MA in Conflict Security and Development. Pursuing her undergraduate in International Affairs in Beirut, Lebanon led Tala to realise she had a particular interest in conflicts, their causes, dynamics and consequences. She is fascinated by how different factors play a multitude of roles in not just stimulating conflicts but sustaining them. Tala is especially curious about security issues that develop with conflicts and the policies created to contain conflict zones, with a special interest in the MENA region. Richard Blunt is a part‐time master’s student at King’s College London reading Conflict, Security & Development. He received his BA Hons. in War & Security Studies at the University of Hull, graduating in July 2013. In the past Richard has worked in the House of Commons for Ms Penny Mordaunt MP, researching options for Trident renewal and assisting in constituency matters. Alongside his masters, he now has begun working at Raitt Orr & Associates Limited, a public affairs company dealing with developing world issues, especially in Africa. His interests include Maritime security, the International Drugs Trade, especially in West Africa, and British security in the 21st century.

First Row (left to right):

Luciana Téllez Chávez,

Fanny Johanna Hoes,

Larisa Lara, Olivia

Armstrong, Hillary Briffa,

Melisa Tezcan

Second Row (left to right):

Alex Rhona Martin, Kate Robertson, Richard Blunt,

Tala Kayed

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NOTES

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The Organising Committee of the CSD2014 Conference would like to

thank the KCL Department of War Studies and the KCL Student

Opportunity Fund 2013‐2014 for their generous contribution to this

event.

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