Navigating Criminal-Threat Convergence Vectors in India and South Asia

I look forward to my upcoming visit to South Asia next month to continue to advance a global dialogue on criminal-threat convergence fueling greater chaos, insecurity, and instability around the world.

“Anticipatory security protocols and strategic intelligence are needed more than ever across South Asia – and beyond – to disrupt threat convergence vectors, dismantle criminalized power structures (CPS), and to secure vulnerable border corridors where non-state actors exploit an expanding ecosystem of criminality and corruption including through the lucrative illegal trade in narcotics and synthetic drugs, counterfeits, illicit cigarettes, illegal-mined gold, and an array of other illicit goods and contraband.

Such threat convergence incentivizes criminal gangs, mafias, and armed militias to profit from black markets and gray zones, weakening formal state economies, while corrupting institutions and financing their impunity and illicit empires.” David M. Luna, Executive Director, ICAIE