Mark Shaw

Mark Shaw and Tuesday Reitano work for STATT (www.statt.net), a consulting firm dedicated to building community resilience to transnational threats. Working in partnership with the Institute of Security Studies (www.issafrica.org), STATT has embarked on a year-long research project that will explore the relationship between organized crime and democratic governance in West Africa. This paper was drawn from initial fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau, funded by the International Peace Institute “Peace Without Crime” Program (www.ipacademy.org).