From Alternative Development to Sustainable Development: The Role of Development Within the Global Drug Control Regime

Brombacher, Daniel; Westerbarkei, Jan

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“…Development practitioners highlight that the most recent international drug control treaty, the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, references the role of development, but in subservience to eradication efforts. Development could serve as a mechanism to achieve drug control goals, but has not been seen as an end in itself (Brombacher and Westerbarkei, 2019). This chapter has sought to highlight the historical counter-narratives to this prohibitionist mindset that captured UN discourses following the Second World War.…”

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Imperial Drug Economies, Development, and the Search for Alternatives in Asia, from Colonialism to Decolonisation

Collins

2020

Drug Policies and Development

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This chapter challenges contemporary policy conceptions on the historical relationship between drugs and development policies. It uses a historical analysis to examine the interaction of drugs, governance, security, welfare and economic development policies within drug producing contexts in Asia, from colonialism through the period of decolonisation. It highlights that although modern narratives of drugs and development tend to view the latter as new and involving even immediately contemporary innovations for dealing with the outcomes of drug economies and drug policies, the historical reality is much more complex. Managing drugs and development was a fundamental historical process of state regulation, control and the settling of geographical boundaries, both economically and physically. This chapter posits two foundational ideas. First, the issues of drugs and development have always been fundamentally linked, from the globalisation of trade through mercantilist imperial policies, state formation, the limits of governance, the distribution of economic gains, and political economy outcomes stretching from the local to the global. Drugs, licit and illicit, have therefore always been an issue of economic development. Second, policymakers have long recognised and developed state responses based on the above reality. While not going under its now 'official' title, many of the principles of 'alternative development' have been ingrained in policy responses and limitations over the past several centuries.

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Imperial Drug Economies, Development, and the Search for Alternatives in Asia, from Colonialism to Decolonisation

Collins

2020

Drug Policies and Development

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“…Enforcement tends to be interpreted as the silver bullet in both the fields of drug control and wildlife trafficking, despite the above-mentioned shortfalls of such an approach and its potential harms in the logic of the third dimension of this chapter. However, the role of development in global drug policies has steadily enhanced in the past years (Brombacher & Westerbarkei 2019), while in the field of wildlife trafficking a strong focus on interdiction efforts prevails. Given the rather livelihood-oriented character of the bushmeat value chain studies in this piece, deterrence and enforcement may not be the most effective approach to tackle all stages of this market, as in other first layer cases in this volume.…”

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Introduction Special Issue: Environmental Impacts of Illicit Economies

Brombacher¹,

Garzón²,

Vélez³

2021

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

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For decades, illicit economies have predominantly been studied and debated as a security problem with social and development consequences. However, the interaction between illicit economies and the environment, in cases such as illicit drug crop cultivation and drugs production, is more recent and a rather unexplored discussion-despite that it is not a new phenomenon. From an environmental standpoint, illicit economies can lead to a broad array of negative impacts, with complex interactions. This Special Issue of the Journal of illicit Economies and Development seeks to enhance the evidence basis and understanding of the environmental impacts of illicit economies beyond traditional crime-focused indicators. The special issue pursues to shed more light on the manifold interlinkages between illicit economies and the environment, contributing to a growing body of research of a rather young branch of research in the field of illicit economies. The special issue gathers a broad array of phenomena, perspectives, and disciplines, combining original research and policy considerations. The Special Issue includes contributions on the environmental impacts of illicit drug crop cultivation, drug trafficking, drug production, illicit trade in bushmeat and wildlife in general, land grabbing and illicit sand mining, covering a broad range of regions and continents.

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“…The UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in 2016 pursued a more open and wide-ranging discussion, which placed drug control in the context of too-often siloed issues, such as human rights, gender, development, and public health. UNGASS 2016 witnessed the idea of development, in particular, graduate from a subordinate role to a widely accepted and UN-endorsed pillar of global drug policy [16]. This progress, however, has occurred during a period of increased policy fragmentation globally, with different issue areas interacting, overlapping, contradicting, and at times even competing.…”

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From Illicit to Value Added: The Lessons of Community and Institutional Change in Northern Thailand’s Opium Growing Regions

Collins¹,

Brombacher

Diskul³

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LSE Public Policy Review

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International drug control remains a polarised and complex sphere of policy debate. Until relatively recently the predominant global response was one of repression and strict prohibition. Within this paradigm, small scale producers have been caught up in a war, with harsh choices between subsistence and heavy criminalisation by the state. This paper examines the complex issue of transition from illicit to licit in areas dominated by illicit drug economies. It begins by examining the international paradigm for drug control and how this is evolving to take greater account of sustainable development. In doing so, it looks to the 'New Drugs and Development School' as a paradigm for understanding these changes. It continues on to highlight the role of concepts such as economic thrivability and the utilisation of a nudge strategy to explain the needs of communities seeking to move beyond illicit crop cultivation. It concludes with an in-depth look at the development interventions in Northern Thailand, which succeeded in transitioning communities to sustainable licit livelihoods, and thereby seeks to draw some lessons from these.

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From Alternative Development to Sustainable Development: The Role of Development Within the Global Drug Control Regime

Cited by 29 publications

References 5 publications

Imperial Drug Economies, Development, and the Search for Alternatives in Asia, from Colonialism to Decolonisation

Imperial Drug Economies, Development, and the Search for Alternatives in Asia, from Colonialism to Decolonisation

Introduction Special Issue: Environmental Impacts of Illicit Economies

From Illicit to Value Added: The Lessons of Community and Institutional Change in Northern Thailand’s Opium Growing Regions

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