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The twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, 2000) is a timely moment for an appraisal of the Convention system, its developments (including the recently adopted review mechanism) and the challenges it faces. In The Palermo Convention at Twenty: Institutional and Substantive Challenges experts with different backgrounds begin such a discussion by focusing on the institutional and substantive features of the Convention and its potential as a tool for countering different forms of criminality - including some that were not meant, in principle, to fall under its scope.
Contents
Preface
The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 20 Years from Its Adoption
Strengths, Achievements and Challenges Ahead
Tania Bañuelos Mejía
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Introduction
1 Strengths
2 Achievements
3 Challenges Ahead
The Review Mechanism of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and Its Protocols
An Analysis Based on Peer Review Methodology
Christian Ponti
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Introductory Remarks
1 Common Features of the Peer Review Methodology and the Preliminary Phase of the Process
2 Consultation
3 Assessment
4 The Legitimacy of the UNTOC Review Mechanism
5 Conclusion
The Implementation Review Mechanism of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC)
What Role for Civil Society?
Ian Tennant and Prem Mahadevan
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Introduction
1 What Is Civil Society?
2 What Value Can Civil Society Add to the Review Mechanism?
3 The Debate about the Role of Civil Society
4 What Was Agreed in 2018?
5 What Space for Civil Society in the Mechanism?
6 Analysis of the Role Given to Civil Society by the Convention and the Review Mechanism
7 How Does the UNTOC Review Mechanism Compare with Other Mechanisms?
8 Conclusion
9 Postscript: Connecting the Local and the Global
Integrating the UNCAC and the UNTOC for Effective Prevention and International Cooperation
Challenges for Global Crime Governance
Uglješa Ugi Zvekić
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Introductory Remarks
1 The UNTOC
2 The UNCAC
3 The Role of Civil Society
4 Concluding Observations
The Palermo Convention and the Fight against Terrorism
Julie Alix
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Introduction
1 A Different Methodological Approach towards Two Categories of International Crime
2 Elements for Rethinking the Articulation between the International Efforts to Fights against Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime
International Cooperation for the Repression of Core Crimes
What Role for the UNTOC?
Alessandra Annoni
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Introduction
1 The Scope of the International Obligation to Prosecute Core Crimes
2 The Obligation to Cooperate for the Repression of Core Crimes
3 The Applicability of the Cooperation Regime Established by the UNTOC
4 Conclusions
