Natural Security: Wargames Aid in Fighting Unregulated, Illegal Fishing

Illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing presents economic and security challenges to all maritime nations. Bad actors, ranging from local artisanal fleets fishing without a license inside their countries exclusive economic zones, to foreign distant water fleets who can take advantage of a lack of governance and management in developing ...

Natural Security Series: New Mines Mean Bloodshed in Brazil

Earlier this month, reports emerged of a massacre by illegal prospectors of approximately 20 indigenous people from the Warikama Djapar tribe in Vale do Javari, along Brazil’s border with Peru. If confirmed, it would be the deadliest incident between miners and indigenous people since the 1993 Haximu massacre. The news ...

Researchers Devise Forensic Tests to Track Contraband Conflict Minerals

Terrorism, political corruption, and human rights violations in sub-Saharan Africa are like any other business: management identifies and provides a needed product or service to willing buyers, thereby generating profits and reinvesting them. In the tragedy currently playing out in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, especially in the ...

How Africa’s Minerals Underground Threatens U.S. Security Interests

Last February, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order calling on the Department of Treasury to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. One Dodd-Frank provision the Trump Administration would like to suspend  is Section 1502, which requires U.S. companies that ...