Drug Policies and Development: Conflict and Coexistence

The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical perspective. Contributions address the drugs and development nexus from a range of critical viewpoints, highlighting gaps and contradictions, as well as exploring strategies and opportunities for enhanced linkages between drug control and development programming. Criminalisation and coercive law enforcement-based responses in international and national level drug control are shown to undermine peace, security and development objectives.

Contributors include: Kenza Afsahi, Damon Barrett, David Bewley-Taylor, Daniel Brombacher, Julia Buxton, Mary Chinery-Hesse, John Collins, Joanne Csete, Sarah David, Ann Fordham, Corina Giacomello, Martin Jelsma, Sylvia Kay, Diederik Lohman, David Mansfield, José Ramos-Horta, Tuesday Reitano, Andrew Scheibe, Shaun Shelly, Khalid Tinasti, and Anna Versfeld.

Julia Buxton is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Public Policy, Central European University Budapest/Vienna and a Senior Research Associate at the Global Drug Policy Observatory, University of Swansea.

Mary Chinery-Hesse is the first woman Chancellor of the University of Ghana. She was the first African woman UNDP Resident Representative, the first woman Deputy Director-General of the ILO, and Chief Advisor to the President of the Republic of Ghana.

Khalid Tinasti is the Executive Secretary of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva. He focuses on public policies, democracy, elections, and international drug control.