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antiquities, drugs and arms – organised crime, intelligence operations and...

Returning to the “series” of posts on Turkey, I want to trace the connections between antiquities trafficking and drug trafficking, arms trafficking, organised crime and conflict financing (or other...

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a very preliminary review of destruction, trafficking and politics of...

troll factories: the Internet Research Agency and state-sponsored agenda building Identified members of a Russian state-linked propaganda outlet, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), are being...

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methods for analysing the relationship between antiquities looting and armed...

Alongside my study of the potential and limits of digital data, netnographic data and market data (which is summarised in another blog post), there are two other articles that explore the potential and...

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antiquities trafficking in the digital age

In World Politics Review, anthropologists Amr Al-Azm (@alazmamr) and Katie Paul (@AnthroPaulicy) have previewed their ongoing investigations into the Middle East’s other Facebook revolution:...

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online trafficking of cultural objects from crisis zones and conflict zones...

Thanks to the support of the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology (Nordisk Samarbejdsråd for Kriminologi), I was able to participate in their Research Seminar on Crime, Crime Control and...

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immoral, failed refugee policy in Europe and subsistence trafficking of fake...

When I was discussing subsistence trafficking of cultural objects by asylum-seekers with students of the ARCA Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection, I was reminded of a...

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in the line of fire: cultural heritage in hybrid warfare – occupation,...

At the seminar on archaeology in occupied territories and in zones of armed conflict, I (Сем Харді) explored cultural heritage in hybrid warfare – occupation, destruction, trafficking, espionage and...

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fuelling of an illicit market and financing of political violence in Syria,...

In the course of expanding a study (into two studies) of the practice of “rescue”-by-purchase of looted antiquities, I traced out a case, that I mentioned before in the context of fake conflict...

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trafficking of forgeries by forced migrants and forced migrants as false...

While I was piecing together English-language evidence of looting and trafficking of antiquities by internally-displaced persons and internationally-displaced persons, I looked at Turkish-language...

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organised crime in trafficking of cultural goods in Turkey and...

I’m delighted to say that my open-source research into organised crime in trafficking of cultural goods in Turkey and interconnections between antiquities trafficking and narcotics trafficking, arms...

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