COUNTERING ORGANIZED CRIME: STRATEGY, STATECRAFT, PREVENTION, AND REACTION
Course date: 18-25 July 2020
Organized crime represents one of the most pressing national and international security threats. It is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit. There is a tendency to use criminal organizations as a tool to reach military or political aims in hybrid type conflicts. The Baltic States have encountered almost all possible forms of organised criminal activities. It is certainly the consequence of being long time a part of the Soviet Union. As MAJ Egidijus Čiūtas, Lithuania Armed Forces officer and scholar of US Army Command and General Staff College class of 2017, states in his study "Criminal Ethos of Russia: The Great Western Dilemma of Fighting New Generation Warfare", after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin, Russia institutionalized a criminal world and employed it as another instrument of national power. Post-Soviet organized crime became a power, able to proactively identify and seize opportunities in economic, political, and a number of other spheres.
Course content
This course seeks to present a tentative account of organized crime in the Baltic region as well as providing some recommendations on how to enhance regional cooperation in countering these threats. An Organized Crime will be analyzed from different perspectives: as illegal activity, as a legacy of Soviet system, as a political instrument. In addition, different methods to counter organized crime will be introduced. After the collapse of the Soviet Union many orgranized crime groups emerged in the Baltic States and we were able to counter them effectively. Therefore, we have unique experience and knowledge that could be useful for students and professionals who are interested in this area.
PROGRAMME
SATURDAY, 18 JULY | ||
18.00 – 20.00 | Ms Jurgita Jakevičiūtė
Dr Erikas Kaukas |
ORIENTATION | ICE BREAKING SESSION
WELCOME COCKTAIL |
SUNDAY, 19 JULY | ||
10.00 – 12.30 | TOUR AROUND OLD TOWN OF VILNIUS | |
12.30 – 14.00 | FREE TIME | |
14.00 – 15.30 | TEAM BUILDING in PUZZLE ROOMS | |
MONDAY, 20 JULY | ||
10.00 – 10.50 | LECTURE | Rosy Glasses Off: The Nexus Between Transparency, Corruption and Organized Crime | |
11.00 – 11.50 | ||
12.00 – 14.00 | LUNCH | |
14.00 – 14.50 |
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LECTURE | EU Policy and Practical Measures to Counter Organized Crime |
15.00 – 15.50 | LECTURE | Organised Crime: New Challenges and Response | |
16.00 – 16.50 | PRACTICAL SESSION & DISCUSSION | |
TUESDAY, 21 JULY | ||
10.00 – 10.50 | LECTURE | Criminal Ethos of Russia – The Great Western Dilemma of Fighting New Generation Warfare | |
11.00 – 11.50 | ||
12.00 – 14.00 | LUNCH
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14.00 – 14.50 | LECTURE | FCIS's Activities in Money Laundering Prevention | |
15.00 – 15.50 | LECTURE | Fintech in Lithuania | |
16.00 – 16.50 | PRACTICAL SESSION & DISCUSSION | |
WEDNESDAY, 22 JULY | ||
10.00 – 10.50 | LECTURE | Main Geographical and Historical Overview of Drug Trafficking | |
11.00 – 11.50 | LECTURE | The Role of Drugs for Organized Crime | |
12.00 – 14.00 | LUNCH | |
14.00 – 14.50 |
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LECTURE | Trends and Key Implications of Drug Trafficking in Contemporary European Drug Market |
15.00 – 15.50 | LECTURE | State Response to Counter Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking | |
16.00 – 16.50 | PRACTICAL SESSION & DISCUSSION | |
THURSDAY, 23 JULY | ||
13.00 – 14.30 | SITE VISIT SITE VISIT | Controlled Zone at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant | |
FRIDAY, 24 JULY | ||
10.00 – 10.50 | LECTURE | Human Trafficking: Realities of Lithuania | |
11.00 – 11.50 | LECTURE | Peculiarities of Organized Crime in Lithuania | |
12.50 – 14.00 | LUNCH | |
14.00 – 14.50 | LECTURE | Reality of Criminal World | |
15.00 – 15.50 | ||
16.30 – 17.00 | AWARDING CEREMONY | |
19.00 | FAREWELL EVENING | |
SATURDAY, 25 JULY | ||
DEPARTURE |
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