Khalid Tinasti teaches the International Drug Policy course, part of the Interdisciplinary Master programme. The course adopts an interdisciplinary, crosscutting analysis of different dimensions of drug control in relation to development and international relations. The main objective is to introduce the complexities of the international drug control regime into students’ own disciplines and specialties. For the course, students were assigned research projects to reflect their ownership and understanding of drug control policies, based on research and analysis of existing data on drug policies.
Master students Colette Fogarty and Matvej Dubianskij have provided, through their research podcast on "Peacebuilding and Drug Policy", a dynamic and vibrant discussion and an example of an innovative project both in substance and in its format, which captures its audiences through its rich country examples and the ease with which they explain complex policy interactions.
“The Cure Has Been Worse Than the Disease”: Punitive Drug Policies and Peacebuilding
For decades, the global approach to the drugs-war nexus has been defined by heavily securitised policies, encompassing everything from forced crop eradication to militarised confrontations with drug cultivators and traffickers. In this podcast, Colette and Matvej seek to address the question of whether counter-narcotic policies, under the mantle of the War on Drugs, have been conducive to sustainable and inclusive peace-building efforts and processes in conflict contexts, specifically in the cases of Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar.