Combating Serious Crimes in Postconflict Societies

A Handbook for Policymakers and Practitioners

Postconflict societies often suffer from a breakdown of law and order, resulting in varied forms of criminal activity that can have a profoundly destabilizing impact on the society. Criminal activity can undermine the general security of the population, endanger establishment of postconflict peace, and jeopardize economic, legal and political reform efforts.

Drawing on firsthand experience in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and elsewhere, Combating Serious Crimes in Postconflict Societies: A Handbook for Policymakers and Practitioners distills practical, hard-won knowledge into guidance for policymakers and practitioners who are facing the challenge of addressing organized crime and other destabilizing crime in peace and stabilization operations.

At this event, the speakers will discuss the nature of the serious crimes challenges, the lessons and guidance presented in the handbook and its relevance for societies who are currently emerging from conflict.

The handbook will be available for purchase at the event. You can also purchase it through our online bookstore or download it online.

Speakers

Jacques Paul Klein
Former Chief of United Nations operations in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Liberia
Dr. Govind Prasad Thapa
Additional Inspector General of Nepal Police (Retired), and Chairperson, Centre for Security and Justice Studies, Nepal
Major General David C. Ralston
Former Chief of Staff for Operations and Intelligence, Kosovo Force (KFOR) and an author of the handbook
Dr. Max Hernández
Technical Secretary of the Peruvian National Accord
Colette Rausch, Moderator
Deputy Director, Rule of Law, U.S. Institute of Peace and Editor of the handbook