Just like nearly every aspect of human experience, crime, conflict, and
violence have become increasingly global. Around the world, civil wars,
of which there are more today than at any time since the end of World
War II, displace greater numbers of people ever farther from their
countries of origin. Transnational terrorism has reached a 50-year high,
in terms of both its incidence and the number of reported fatalities.
Cross-border criminal markets--illicit drugs, human trafficking,
wildlife trade, and so forth--take a heavy toll on the many societies
they affect.
This Policy Research Report, 'Violence without Borders: The
Internationalization of Crime and Conflict', offers a unified framework
to take stock of the theoretical and empirical literature on crime,
conflict, and violence and to discuss how the international community
organizes itself to address security as a regional and global public
good. The increasingly global effects of crime and conflict require an
equally global response to violence.