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publications2012A breakthrough in the making?Amira Armenta, Martin Jelsma andPien Metaal, July 2012. No. 21(Also in Spanish). There is an undeniableregional trend of moving away from the ‘war ondrugs’ in Latin America. This briefing explainsthe background, summarises the state ofongoing drug law reforms, and makes recommendationsto move the debate forward.Drugs, crime and punishmentGloria Lai , June 2012. No. 20 (Also inSpanish). Proportionality is one of thekey principles of the rule of law aiming to protectpeople from cruel or inhumane treatment.The level of penalisation should be determinedaccording to the severity of damage that acertain behaviour causes to others or to society.Towards revision of the UNdrug control conventionsDave Bewley-Taylor, March 2012.No. 19 (Also in Spanish). Recent years haveseen a growing unwillingness among increasingnumbers of States to fully adhere to astrictly prohibitionist reading of the threeprincipal UN drug control conventions.The Limits of Latitude DaveBewley-Taylor and Martin Jelsma,March 2012. No. 18 (Also in Spanish).A growing number of nations are developingpolicies that shift away from the prohibitionorientedfailed approach to drugs control.Ultimately however nations will need toreform the overall UN based global drugcontrol framework of which practically allnations are a part.Chewing over Khat prohibitionAxel Klein, Pien Metaal and MartinJelsma, January 2012. No. 17 (Also inSpanish). Khat has been consumed forthousands of years in the highlands of EasternAfrica and Southern Arabia. Strict bans on khatintroduced in Europe ostensibly for theprotection of immigrant communities have hadsevere unintended negative consequences.BURMAProspects for Ethnic Peace andPolitical Participation TNI/Burma Centrum Nederland, August2012. Conference report: Ceasefires have beenagreed; the NLD has elected representativesin the national legislatures; Western sanctionsare being lifted; and the World Bank and otherinternational agencies are returning to set upoffice in the country. Such developments arelikely to have a defining impact on ethnicpolitics, which remains one of the centralchallenges facing the country today.Financing Dispossession TomKramer and Kevin Woods, February2012 (also in Chinese). China’s opiumcrop substitution programme has very little todo with providing mechanisms to decreasereliance on poppy cultivation or providealternative livelihoods for ex-poppy growers.Financing dispossession is not development.12 tni Annual Report 2012 Publications
publications2012Assessing Burma/Myanmar’sNew Government TNI/BurmaCentrum Nederland, February 2012.Burma is in the midst of its most importantperiod of political transition in over twodecades. TNI and BCN hosted a conferenceto look at the challenges and opportunitiesin five key areas: politics, ethnic relations,the economy, social and humanitarian affairs,and the international landscape.Ending Burma’s Conflict Cycle?TNI/Burma Centrum Nederland,February 2012. Burma Policy BriefingNo. 8 Peace does not just involve thegovernment and ethnic armed oppositiongroups, but involves all of Burma’s citizens.Burma Policy Briefing SeriesBurma at the Crossroads TNI/Burma Centrum Nederland, June 2012.Burma Policy Briefing No. 9. The peopleof Burma are at a critical juncture in theirstruggle for democracy and ethnic reform.Decisions taken by leading parties andprotagonists in the months ahead could welldefine the direction of national politics formany years to come.Publications tni Annual Report 2012 13
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