Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building: Human Security in the Western Balkans

This fascinating volume investigates the role of transnational terrorism and criminal organizations in the peace-building proceses in the Western Balkans. It maps organized crime and terrorism in the region and highlights the close links that have developed between organized crime and state institutions during and after the wars. Benedek and his team demonstrate how weak states in post-conflict situations can be strengthened. The international community, from the outside, and civil society, from within, play a role as counterforces to identified threats. They can strengthen the rule of law, transitional justice, control over money laundering, the promotion of human rights and democracy, as well as furthering reconciliation attempts and peace-building. This book identifies their good practices, successes and failures.

Wolfgang Benedek is Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (ETC) and of the Institute of International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz, Austria.
Christopher Daase is Professor of International Organisations at the University of Frankfurt and Head of the Programme on International Organizations and International Law at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany.
Vojin Dimitrijevic teaches Public International Law at the Union University Law School in Belgrade and is Director of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, Serbia.
Petrus van Duyne is Professor of Empirical Penal Science at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands.