Event Date: December 5, 2022 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: FSS4004

Presented by CIPS and the Security Studies Network

There is much debate about the salience of ‘organized crime’ as a lens on smuggling and cross-border crime in West Africa. This roundtable brings together four scholars who draw on their collective expertise of working on issues relating to drug trafficking and migration in the region. The panelists will discuss issues around the concept of transnational organized crime, the necessity and ethics of seeking overlooked narratives, and the social world of smuggling and policing in the region. To do so, they draw on their own personal research trajectories as well as the results of a collaborative project on local narratives on the drug trade and irregular migration in two of West Africa’s major trade and control hubs: Lagos (Nigeria) and Agadez (Niger).

Participants:

Gernot Klantschnig (University of Bristol)

Élodie Apard (URMIS, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)

Ini Dele-Adedeji (NatCen Social Research)

Lala Ireland (University of Bristol)

Chair: Philippe M. Frowd (University of Ottawa)

Light refreshments will be served.