Local perspectives should shape multilateral responses to transnational organized crime

International Day for the Prevention of Transnational Organized Crime is an opportune time to explore potential ways forward. Among its key calls is the need to raise awareness of transnational organized crime’s far-reaching impacts on communities worldwide and highlight grassroots and community-led initiatives to address its root causes and effects. This call aligns closely with a year-long UNU-CPR research project that investigated multilateral responses to transnational organized crime, taking into consideration the perspectives of local officials, community leaders and directly affected citizens in one Mali’s leading gold-producing areas, the Kayes region. 

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