Colombia is going through a crucial period of its political life. The peace process that is currently being conducted by the government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) and the one that is formally starting between the government and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) are having and will continue to have a […]

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has revised its Recommendation 8 on nonprofits (NPOs) to no longer characterise them as being 'particularly vulnerable' to terrorist abuse, and made important changes to the Interpretive Note to this Recommendation. NPOs are now wondering how their countries will react to these revisions and how they can ensure that […]

Large-scale investments in fragile states – in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia – have increasingly become magnets for conflict that undermines business, development and security. International policy has so far responded to these challenges with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, but with poor and often perverse results. Caught up in old […]

Large-scale investments in fragile states – in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia – have increasingly become magnets for conflict that undermines business, development and security. International policy has so far responded to these challenges with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, but with poor and often perverse results. Caught up in old […]

Large-scale investments in fragile states – in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia – have increasingly become magnets for conflict that undermines business, development and security. International policy has so far responded to these challenges with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, but with poor and often perverse results. Caught up in old […]