Highly Capitalized Anti-Social Activities

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The workshop in progress

Tom Diaz and Sidney Zabludoff

Convened by:

Jack Blum
Former Senior Investigator, U.S. Senate (where he was the principal investigator of the B.C.C.I. scandal, General Noriega's drug trafficking, and Lockheed overseas bribes, among other cases)

Participants:

Peter Andreas
Co-Editor, The Illicit Global Economy and State Power; Co-Author, Drug War Politics, Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Institute for International Affairs, Harvard University

Kathi L. Austin
Visiting Scholar, Center for African Studies, Stanford University; Consultant, Human Rights Project/Arms Project; Author, Controlling Light Weapons Trafficking in the Great Lakes Region of Africa; she was formerly the project director for the Environmental Investigative Agency

Tom Diaz
Senior Policy Analyst, Violence Policy Center; Former Counsel, Subcommittee on Crime, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives; Author, Making A Killing; Editor, Political Warfare

Robert I. Friedman
Award-wining Investigative Reporter; Author, Zealots for Zion, "Brighton Beach Goodfellas" (Vanity Fair), "The Organizatsya" and "The Money Plane" (New York Magazine), and "Power Play" (Details)

Rensselaer Lee III
Author, The Andean Cocaine Industry and Smuggling Armageddon: The Nuclear Black Market in the Former Soviet Union and Europe; Political Analyst, Global Advisory Services

Robert Lindquist
Director, Forensic Accounting Unit, PricewaterhouseCooper; Investigator of Corruption, World Bank

Frederick Martens
Director, Corporate Investigations/Loss Control, Claridge Casino Hotel; Author, Understanding Organized Crime in Global Perspective; Pennsylvania Crime Commission

Thomas Naylor
Professor of Economics, McGill University; Author, Hot Money and the Politics of Debt and Patriots and Profiteers (forthcoming)

Timothy O'Brien
Economics Correspondent, The New York Times; Author, Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gaming Industry

Francois Pascal
Lt. Colonel, French Marines; Senior Intelligence Analyst, Investigations Section, Internal Oversight Services, United Nations Situation Center, Department of Peacekeeping Operations

Nikos Passas
Professor of Criminology, Temple University; Editor, Transnational Crime, The Future of Anomie Theory, and Transnational Crime: The Interface Between Legal and Illegal Actors

Louise Shelley
Director, Center for the Study of Transnational Organized Crime and Corruption, American University; Editor, Trends In Organized Crime

Fred Wertheimer
President, Democracy 21; Former President, Common Cause

James Wesberry
President, Accountability21; Director, America's Accountability/Anti-Corruption Project, Casals and Associates and U.S. A.I.D.; Former Director, Auditing and Anti-corruption Unit, The World Bank

Sidney J. Zabludoff
Former Deputy Chief, Counternarcotics Operations, CIA; Special Assistant to the Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Department of the Treasury, U.S.

This workshop was presented in collaboration with the Global Development And Environment Institute at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.