Project 71861 - Approach to understanding the behavior of maritime drug trafficking networks, including the corruption practices associated with it, from the evolutionary framework, based on the simulation of social systems.

Project: Research Project

Project Details

Description

This project is part of the Minciencias Program 70593: Integrated response strategy from comparative and international public law to confront corruption associated with transnational organized crime in Colombia, in light of an evolutionary approach to the dynamics of maritime drug trafficking through simulation of social systems.

It proposes establishing an approach to understanding the dynamics of adaptation and flexibility of maritime drug trafficking in the Americas, including the corruption associated with it, through the use of social systems simulation instruments.

It addresses this phenomenon from the theoretical perspectives of 'organizations as social systems' and 'complex adaptive systems'.

These perspectives will allow us to analyze and explain the flexible, adaptable and evolutionary behavior of the transnational organizational system of maritime drug trafficking, beyond the paradigm of hierarchical, rigid and
centralized, which characterizes the study of drug trafficking structures.

Additionally, this proposal will seek to understand the logic of the behavior of the actors in the maritime narcotics trafficking chain, the tasks they perform, their corruption practices, distribution, modes of transportation, and their routes.

All these variables are subject to continuous processes of change imposed by contextual conditions.

To meet the stated objectives, this proposal is built through a qualitative methodological approach in two instances.

First, the bibliographic and data sources will be reviewed, information that will be obtained from primary sources such as the International Maritime Analysis Center against Drug Trafficking of the National Navy.

Second, simulation tools will be used, focused on the use of software, particularly the NetLogo 5.0 program, for the simulation of social systems.

Through this simulation we aim to explain the dynamics of adaptation and flexibility of the maritime drug trafficking system in the Americas. The simulation will be perfected with information obtained from field work in some municipalities relevant to the maritime traffic chain, including Cartagena, Buenaventura and Providencia, in which it is possible to interview officials of the state security forces, and the population.

Keywords

SIMULATION OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS

COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

ORGANIZATIONS AS SOCIAL SYSTEMS

MARITIME DRUG TRAFFICKING

ORGANIZED TRANSNATIONAL CRIME

CORRUPTION
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date8/28/208/28/22

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Main Funding Source

  • National

Location

  • Providencia
  • Bogotá D.C.
  • Buenaventura
  • Cartagena

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