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BIOGRAPHY
Raouf Farrah is a researcher and senior analyst for the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), a global platform examining illicit economies and organised crime around the world. He has studied Mathematics, Political Philosophy and Development Studies at the University of Ottawa and the University of Montréal. His research interests focus on illicit economies, trafficking practices and the interplay between geopolitical and securitarian dynamics in the Maghreb and Sahel. He has also researched migration movements in the Sahara-Sahel, and he regularly intervenes in international media on these topics.
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Raouf Farrah is a researcher and senior analyst for the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), a global platform examining illicit economies and organised crime around the world. He has studied Mathematics, Political Philosophy and Development Studies at the University of Ottawa and the University of Montréal. His research interests focus on illicit economies, trafficking practices and the interplay between geopolitical and securitarian dynamics in the Maghreb and Sahel. He has also researched migration movements in the Sahara-Sahel, and he regularly intervenes in international media on these topics.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
Raouf’s current research concerns mining in Algeria, a key sector in the country’s diversification strategy. He examines the “myth” of sustainable economic renewal through mining projects in southern and northern Algeria, focusing on the institutions driving these practices, the evolving legal setting and the national narratives that authorities employ to sustain these projects.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Thieux, L. and Farrah, R. “Algeria and the Western Sahara: Reactivating the “just causes” principle in the post-Hirak era”, Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).
Farrah, R. “No more peace: The end of the Peace Agreement and Illicit economies in northern Mali,” Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC), (forthcoming).
Farrah, R. “Zuwara’s Civil Society Fight against Organized Crime: Successes and failures of local community efforts,” Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, (December 2021). VIEW PUBLICATION
Farrah, R. “Algeria’s Migration Dilemma, The Political Economy of Smuggling and Migration in Southern Algeria,” Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, (December 2020) VIEW PUBLICATION
Farrah, R. “After the Storm: Organised crime across the Sahel-Sahara following the upheaval in Libya and Mali,” Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, (November 2019). VIEW PUBLICATION