Building resilience to organised crime

This report examines the drivers of community resilience against organised crime and violence within four specific communities located in Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau, and Burkina Faso, arguing that state-centric strategies must be supplemented by local, context-specific responses.

• The report argues that state-centric strategiesCSS approaches to combating organised crime are insufficient on their own and must be paired with community-basedS basedC based, context-specific responses to address violence and instability at the local level, particularly in conflict and post-conflict environments.
• The authors note a lack of understanding among stakeholders regarding the specific elements that contribute to community resilience against organised crime, especially in unstable settings.

APA

Dandurand, Y., de Lugo, L. B. R. B., Madueke, K., & Zombre, O. (n.d.). Building resilience to organised crime. Institute for Security Studies. https://issafrica.org/research/books-and-other-publications/building-resilience-to-organised-crime

Chicago

Dandurand, Yvon, Lucia Bird Ruiz Benitez de Lugo, Kingsley Madueke, and Oumar Zombre. Building resilience to organised crime. Institute for Security Studies, n.d. https://issafrica.org/research/books-and-other-publications/building-resilience-to-organised-crime.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{dandurandndbuilding, author = {Dandurand, Yvon and de Lugo, Lucia Bird Ruiz Benitez and Madueke, Kingsley and Zombre, Oumar}, title = {{Building resilience to organised crime}}, institution = {Institute for Security Studies}, url = {https://issafrica.org/research/books-and-other-publications/building-resilience-to-organised-crime}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }