June 2021 |
TNRC Blog Post
This post captures insights from a TNRC virtual panel on June 14, 2021 in which speakers from Kenya and India discussed an understudied, yet environmentally devastating trend: the unsustainable mining of river sand, facilitated by corruption, that feeds the global construction boom while destroying habitats and livelihoods and fueling conflict. Insights were contributed by
Mohamed Daghar, Regional Coordinator for Eastern Africa, ENACT programme, Institute for Security Studies, and
Dr. Prem Mahadevan, Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. The panel was hosted by the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University, and moderated by TraCCC’s director,