4/4 UNGASS 2016 Preparations - The member states battle
The CND On December 18, 2014, the General Assembly adopted resolution 69/ 200 entitled “Special session of the General Assembly on the...
3/4 UNGASS 2016 Preparations - Official Timeline and implicated U.N. actors
The timeline of the debate preparation (IDPC, 2015k) leading up to the Special Session has been set up by the UNGASS preparatory...
2/4 UNGASS 2016 Preparations - “A comprehensive, integrated and balanced approach to addressing the
The upcoming 2016 Special Session - as we will see in the next article on UNGASS 1998 - is based on certain documents, but more...
1/4 UNGASS 2016 Preparations - The Concept
As explained by Transform policy analyst Steve Rolles (2015a), “Special Sessions of the General Assembly are called to review and debate...
Intro - Why we should stop talking about the 'War on Drugs'
The persistence of the prohibitive paradigm, despite its many refutations, is indicative of the difficulty to think the complexity of...
Intro - The triple layers of securitization
The fact that the drug control international system has not achieved its stated objectives of eradicating drug supply and use, as well as...
Intro - The International Drug Control Regime (IDCR)
The current global drug control system is based upon three international conventions, namely the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic...
Introduction to the Introduction
In the 2010’s decade amidst numerous experimentations and alternative drug policy alternatives in many heterogeneous geographical...