With the 20th plenary the CGPCS has successfully consolidated its work and reconfirmed its position as the institution where global responses to piracy in the Western Indian Ocean are coordinated. The CGPCS continues to fill a major gap in the … Continue reading
The Trust Fund to Support Initiatives of States Countering Piracy off the Coast of Somalia operating since 2010 under the auspices of the UN has been one of the major vehicles to fund counter-piracy projects. The trust fund was created … Continue reading
On the 1st of February the CGPCS held a strategy meeting to take stock and plan its future activities. The one day event hosted by the Government of India and organized by the current chairmen, the Government of the Seychelles, … Continue reading
Since 2012 the CGPCS agenda was increasingly occupied by the question whether the High Risk Area (HRA) of the Best Management Practices (BMP) should be revised. Why did the high risk area become so controversial? What’s at stake in the … Continue reading
Dr. Christian Bueger, Cardiff University. In 2013 the Contact Group decided to start a process of reflecting on the nature of the group, which lessons can be learned from its work and whether these lessons might be translated to other … Continue reading
Prof. William Smith, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This analytical paper explores the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia from the perspective of its claims to legitimacy. Legitimacy is associated with those properties of an organization that … Continue reading
Dr. Anja P. Jakobi, Royal Holloway, University of London. This paper analyses the contact group against the background of other international initiatives against crime. I first elaborate on a typology of international coordination, ranging from international regimes to networks and ‘orchestrators’. … Continue reading
Dr. Douglas Guilfoyle, University College London & Associate Prof. Birgit Feldtmann, University of Southern Denmark. One of the central issues in connection with approaching the problem of piracy in the region of the Horn of Africa has been the question … Continue reading
Prof. Timothy Edmunds, University of Bristol. Security sector reform (SSR) has become an important component of international peacebuilding, stabilisation and democratisation efforts since 2000. However, and until recently, its impact on the maritime sector has been limited. This paper explores the … Continue reading
Dr. Christian Bueger, Cardiff University. Capacity Building has proven to be a terrain which is very difficult to coordinate in the way the CGPCS has done in other areas, such as prosecution or operational coordination. This papers inquires what is … Continue reading