SAFETY & SECURITY

Pirate groups concentrated in the Niger Delta earn perhaps $5 million of direct income per year through theft and hostage-taking. The...

What We Know About Maritime Illicit Trades is the second in a series of reports produced in the Transnational Organized Crime at Sea: New...

This policy brief examines maritime security and governance in the Indian Ocean region across nine issue areas including the blue...

Post by Jay Benson Violent non-state actors (VNSAs) such as terrorist and insurgent groups are increasingly turning to the seas to...

Guest Post by Walker D. Mills In October 2017, Hurricane Matthew devastated the island nation of Haiti. Nearly 1,000 people were reported...

Stable Seas: Caribbean provides a holistic overview of maritime security covering nine issue areas with a focus on those countries...

In recent years, much of the policy attention around maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea has prioritized approaches to combat piracy...

The threat of piracy and armed robbery against vessels in the waters off West and Central Africa has loomed for decades. In 2013, the...

Post by Kelly Moss Since April 2020, Ansar al-Sunna (ASWJ) has increasingly targeted islands off the coast of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s...

Post by Lydelle Joubert Wherever we find conflict and war, we find illicit weapons. Illicit firearms are a threat to peace and security,...

The Yaoundé Architecture is a critical piece of the maritime security picture in West and Central Africa, resulting from the...

This policy brief maps and measures threats to maritime security across Southeast Asia, as well as the efforts to counter them. The Index...

This policy brief maps and measures threats to maritime security across the Bay of Bengal region, as well as the efforts to counter them....

Guest Post by Marianne Péron-Doise - Research Fellow, Institute for Strategic Research, IRSEM Southeast Asia is often described as a...

Over the last ten years the focus of the annual State of Maritime Piracy report has expanded from piracy off the coast of Somalia to...

The Stable Seas Maritime Security Index maps and measures threats to maritime security in the coastal states of Africa and Asia, as well...

What We Know about Piracy kicks off a new three-part series of reports published with the SafeSeas Network as part of the Transnational...

Post by Lydelle Joubert FUNDING TERROR THROUGH MARITIME KIDNAPPING On 5 December 2018, three fishermen working for a company in Sandakan,...

Post by Curtis Bell The World Has Never Stored More Oil and Gas at Sea. Does This Increase the Risk of Maritime Terrorism? With the...

Stable Seas: Gulf of Guinea explores the connections between maritime governance themes and security challenges, drawing on interviews...

This policy brief examines how improvements in Philippine fisheries, blue economy, and maritime law enforcement can increase maritime...

Stable Seas: Bay of Bengal examines maritime security and governance in the Bay of Bengal across nine issue areas including the blue...

Post by Sarah Gutberlet Trade in illicit arms in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has been reported since the mid-1990s and continues today as...

Post by Meghan Curran Trinidad and Tobago, with their white-sand beaches and aquamarine waters, might not be the first place that comes...

The ninth annual edition of the State of Maritime Piracy report finds that the Gulf of Guinea was the area most affected by piracy and...

The Southeast Asian Archipelago includes the world’s busiest shipping lanes, its most biodiverse marine environment, and many of the...

OVERVIEW This issue paper explores the critical relationship between maritime enforcement capability and the rule of law in improving and...