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Covid-19, Gangs, and Conflict: A Small Wars Journal El Centro Reader Paperback – August 28, 2020
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- Print length200 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherXlibris Corp
- Publication dateAugust 28, 2020
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.52 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101664124349
- ISBN-13978-1664124349
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- Publisher : Xlibris Corp (August 28, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 200 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1664124349
- ISBN-13 : 978-1664124349
- Item Weight : 1.11 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.52 x 8.5 inches
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John P. Sullivan was a career police officer. He retired as a lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He is an instructor at the University of Southern California, Safe Communities Institute; a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Global Observatory of Transnational Criminal Networks; an adjunct researcher at the Vortex Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia; a research fellow at Arizona State University, Future Security Initiative; and a senior fellow at Small Wars Journal-El Centro. Sullivan completed the CREATE Executive Program in Counter-Terrorism at the University of Southern California and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the College of William and Mary, a Master of Arts in Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis from the New School for Social Research, and a PhD from the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) in Barcelona. His doctoral thesis was "Mexico's Drug War: Cartels, Gangs, Sovereignty and the Network State." His current research focus is the impact of transnational organized crime on sovereignty in Mexico, Brazil, and other countries.

Dr. Robert J. Bunker is Director of Research and Analysis, C/O Futures, LLC (cofutures.net). He is also an Instructor, Safe Communities Institute, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California. He is a former Minerva Chair and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College and a twice past Futurist in Residence (FIR) with the FBI Academy, Quantico, VA. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Claremont Graduate University, five other university degrees, and has both undertaken and provided counter-terrorism related training. He has over 500 publications including numerous edited works, booklets, chapters, and articles in policy, law enforcement, and military venues. Past associations include the Los Angeles High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (LA-HIDTA); Counter-OPFOR Corporation; Claremont Graduate University; National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC)--West; National Security Studies Program, Cal State San Bernardino; and the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group. He can be contacted via docbunker@cofutures.net and #DocBunker at Twitter.
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Thorough review and much needed dialogue of COVID-19 impact on organized crime dynamics!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2020
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2020
The book of Sullivan and Bunker brings the subject of social banditry forcibly and painfully to the fore, and convincingly demonstrates that the horrifying precedent has been already firmly established. Combining a broad survey of primary data with scientific analyses by several highly regarded scientists, the editors offer an unvarnished and alarming picture of the “backstage creep” of social banditry in Central and South America, Africa and Asia that threatens to destabilize governments already facing social turmoil, to alter their fledgling political structures, and to pervert weak democracies by surreptitiously corrupting their workings. Moreover, the book clearly shows that the corroding impact of Robin Hoodism increases in strength: gangs demonstrate a vastly greater astuteness and flexibility in utilizing crises as the means of strengthening their position and authority than governments who at times seem to accept insertion of the gang-mediated social activism as a blessing in disguise.
The book points at another equally alarming fact. During the past quarter century of work with issues focused on major disasters, bioterrorism, etc., my colleagues and I often discussed issues of the likely collision between the disaster-responding forces of the government and the “Robin Hoods” of the underworld. We even created a virtual reality "war game” where, depending on circumstances, social banditry emerged and had to be dealt with. Once the latter element entered the play in its characteristic, sudden and unexpected fashion and "Robin Hood" influences took hold, the outcomes were always inconclusive and frequently quite alarming. It is when viewed in this context that the book of Sullivan and Bunker has its most powerful impact: it shows that despite clear awareness of the growing significance of the problem, despite discussions over the past quarter of the century and more, we still do not quite know what to do about social banditry, and most of our approaches (like much in the realm of disaster preparedness) are based on statements rooted in “should, would, will, intend” rather than a clearly defined, mature international (because it must be international) strategy based on a truly transboundary effort needed to combat the already emerged and now rapidly burgeoning threat. It is the book that every professional working with problems of law enforcement, national security, disaster and humanitarian relief, and social recovery activities ought to read. In other words, it is the book that will help you to answer two seemingly simple questions: ‘Are you ready to accept a new NGO – the “International Brotherhood of Robbin(hoods)” or are other solutions desperately needed?’ and “Are you ready to start developing answers to the hitherto unanswerable/uncomfortable questions?”
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2021
What was genuinely unprecedented in 2020 was the hyper-speed with which our many worlds cultures collective vocabularies related to the coronavirus, and how quickly they became a core part of a new language. While most of us drank the emotional ills of making these words daily realities, the editors of “COVID-19, Gangs, and Conflict” were able to monitor and analyze seismic shifts from words into new dark realities. A collection of well-crafted articles of fundamental humanistic enterprising problems developing from a dark triad of social maladies. This book addresses a precipitous frequency rising beyond these new coinages to a decade that could be even worse than a virus running loose. This has got to be the first book out – in managing the complexity of new world criminal elements under the cloak of COVID-19. The worst atrocities come from fear, not our hate, because people see only the handouts, thinking all is good. The enemy thus is invisible while encroaching on your village, and home.
Before COVID-19, humanity was headed toward two doors. Behind one door stood the opportunity to create some amazing new world technology, better health, economic growth, safer living conditions. Behind the other door now stands the threat of growing inequality, eroding privacy, authoritarianism, powerful transnational gang relations, conflict, IOU’s paid in blood, an all-new gang dystopia. True the pandemic has become a process of change for everyone, but now with chaos observed, raising questions why gangs, the mafia, and cartels having a sudden unprecedented truce to help neighbors in need. Neither of these sounds bad on its own. Don’t we want everyone cared for, and peace amongst gangs? This book briefly, but deeply examines the beast that is an asymmetric war – behind this “truce”. In specific, the techniques able to persuade a person, a village to support the evil, the distortions that motivate people to solder false flags of hope, and misrepresentation of right and wrong so to bring about greater conflict unimaginable.
“COVID-19, Gangs, and Conflict” is a must-read for anyone wondering why the world sounds quiet from general criminal activity, why people are distracted from the rise and fall of fragile societies, only soon to face emerging conflict potentials. Once the pandemic is over, and the multi lockdown measures have been removed, mafia, and cartels will return all the stronger from communities they are now nourishing and exploiting. We are almost guaranteed, the five hellish years, if not a decade or more to face. This book is a window watching such groups, that are manifesting new types of political engagement, infiltration of municipal administrations, and legitimate enterprises of violent power brokers aspiring to govern territories and markets. A crucial book in uncertain times.
