2017 Edition
The Summer School on Illicit Trade
Date & Place
Dates & location
3 – 8 July 2017, Groningen, the Netherlands
Level
Third year BA students and above, practitioners
Fee
€ 500 (excluding accommodation)
€ 750 (including accommodation)
Coordinators
Dr. Francesco Giumelli, Faculty of Arts
Dr. Tim Wittig, Faculty of Arts
Contact
illicittrade@rug.nl
Lecturers
Last summer lecturers included senior experts and officials from the following institutions:
· Interpol
· NATO
· Investigative NGOs
· Financial Institutions
· US Drug Enforcement Agency
· Risk Analysis Consultancies
· National Defense University
Target Group
This summer school is intended for Masters, PhD, third year BA students and above, and practitioners. The participants need to have an interest and/or experience in understanding and combating illicit trade, trafficking, finance, and related issues. It is expected that the participants have a sufficient command of the English language to actively participate in the discussions and to present their own work in English .
Course Schedule
Day 1: Overview
Day 2: Trade and Trafficking
Day 3: Money and Money Trafficking
Day 4: Practical Field Trip
Day 5: Responses
Day 6: Exam
How to apply
Please submit:
· CV (max 2 pages)
· Motivation letter (max 1 page)
Registration will close once we have reached our maximum number of qualified applicants. Final application date: 1 April 2019.
Course Coordinators
Dr. Francesco Giumelli
Francesco Giumelli holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florence and is assistant professor in the Department of International Relations and International Organization at the University of Groningen. He has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute and Fellow at the Kroc Institute of Notre Dame University. He wrote the ‘Success of Sanctions: Lessons Learned from the experience of the EU’ with Routledge/Ashgate, and ‘Coercing and Constraining and Signalling: Explaining UN and EU Sanctions after the Cold War’ with ECPR Press. He also authored reports for the European Union Institute for Security Studies and the European Policy Centre among others and gave talks at various international think tanks, such as Chatham House, the German Council on Foreign Relations and the Italian Institute for International Affairs.
Dr. Tim Wittig
Tim Wittig holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews, and is a research fellow at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on identifying and researching the social determinants of illicit trafficking, threat finance, and transnational organized crime, and how they intersect with other issues of international and environmental security. He is the author of numerous publications on these topics, including the book Understanding Terrorist Finance (Palgrave: 2011). In parallel to his academic work, Dr. Wittig has extensive experience as a practitioner, having worked for several years in the NGO sector on counter wildlife trafficking initiatives, in the defense/national security sector on counter threat finance and related issues, and as a consultant to public, private, and charitable sector clients. Prior to Groningen, Dr. Wittig has held a variety of university research and faculty positions, including at Johns Hopkins University, U.S. National Defense University, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of St Andrews.