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The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar. Part one: Origins and reactions (2021)
Journal Article
Dan, S. L., Maran, J. H. P., Sadan, M., Meehan, P., & Goodhand, J. (2021). The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar. Part one: Origins and reactions. International Journal of Drug Policy, 89, Article 103181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103181

This commentary provides an introduction to the origins and emergence of Pat Jasan, a social movement that emerged amongst the Kachin population of northern Myanmar in response to a perceived crisis of illicit drug production and consumption. Althoug... Read More about The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar. Part one: Origins and reactions.

Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma (2021)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., Meehan, P., Bhatia, J., Ghiabi, M., & Gutierrez Sanin, F. (2021). Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma. International Journal of Drug Policy, 89, Article 103115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103115

Recent years have seen the emergence of a policy consensus around the need for fundamental reforms of global drug policies. This is reflected in the call for ‘development-oriented drug policies’ that align and integrate drug policies with development... Read More about Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma.

Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding (2020)
Report
Goodhand, J., Meehan, P., Thomson, F., Ghiabi, M., & Ball, L. Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding

Voices from the borderlands 2020 is the flagship publication of Drugs & (dis)order, a four year research project generating new evidence on how to transform illicit drug economies into peace economies. It aims to bring to light some of the experience... Read More about Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding.

Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone (2020)
Thesis
Pope, N. Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

This thesis examines the emergence and sustainment of milícias (militias) in the 1990s in the West Zone ‘margins’ of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It considers the rise of milícias as they coincide with urbanisation, economic liberalisation, democratis... Read More about Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone.