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In-depth briefings, reports, papers and backgrounders by TNI staff, fellows and associates.

  • ‘The Crisis’ and the Crises of Global Capitalism - Challenges for, and Alternatives from 'The South’
    Mar 17 2010
    Dot Keet

    Alternative socieconomic strategies implemented by countries and peoples of the South could serve as a model for global alternatives to the globalised capitalism.

  • The Statistics Bazaar
    Mar 5 2010
    Ricardo Vargas

    The drugs scene in Colombia is characterized by the fact that it is dominated by a confusion of insufficiently supported statistics and speculative diagnoses which produce policies that reflect this chaos.

  • Prohibition, a backwards step
    Feb 22 2010
    Diana Esther Guzmán, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes

    In December 2009, the Congress in Colombia passed a constitutional reform that prohibits the consumption and possession of certain quantities of drugs for personal use, that had previously been legal in the 1991 Constitution. This regressive step is unlikely to reduce consumption and will probably increase overcrowding which plague some of the country’s major prison centres

  • The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity
    Feb 4 2010

    Neoliberal market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which
    threatens human civilisation. Climate destruction, resource wars, and
    the replacement of democracy by an oligarchy face us if we don't act
    now to reduce the burden we place on our planet and reorganise society
    on a more egalitarian  basis.

  • Countering illicit and unregulated money flows
    Jan 25 2010
    Tom Blickman

    Since its beginnings in 1989, the international anti-money laundering regime has not worked as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work. A bolder initiative is required at the United Nations level, moving from recommendations to obligations, and fully engaging developing nations.

  • Contemporary discourses and contestations around pro-poor land policies and land governance
    Jan 12 2010
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    The concern for ‘pro-poor’ land policy has coincided with the mainstream promotion of efficient administration of land policies, leading to the concept of ‘land governance’. This paper aims at better understanding of contemporary policy discourses and political contestations around land and land governance.

  • The security approach to the drugs problem
    Dec 21 2009
    Ricardo Vargas

    The drugs problem in Colombia is intertwined with structural factors at the social, economic, institutional and cultural levels. Moreover, its relationship to the armed conflict has had serious consequences for the socio-economic conditions of peasant and indigenous communities affected by the production of raw materials used to produce cocaine.

  • Climate Chronicle
    Dec 7 2009

    The Climate justice newspaper is produced every two days during the Copenhagen climate talks, reporting and decoding what is going on both inside and outside the climate negotiations. Find out what is really going on behind the media headlines.

  • Redefining Targets
    Dec 7 2009
    Martin Jelsma
    Tom Kramer

    Afghanistan remains the world’s largest producer of opium and has an under-reported but growing heroin-use problem. Current drug control policies in Afghanistan are unrealistic, reflecting a need for immediate signs of hope rather than a serious analysis of the underlying causes and an effort to achieve long-term solutions.

  • The World at the Climate Crossroads
    Dec 2 2009
    Praful Bidwai

    It is depressingly clear that Copenhagen will at best produce a ‘political’ agreement—just as the Bali conference did two years ago—but not a global climate compact with time-bound, quantifiable, legally binding and enforceable goals or measures.

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