Raphael Maretto
Raphael Maretto is a Master of Arts on Peace and Conflict Studies (Uppsala Universitet) with diversified professional experience grounded in the international system - specifically within the IGO system of States.
His area of expertise spans over Criminal networks, Data analytics, Discourse, Drug trafficking, Extortion, Financial flows, Firearms, Fraud, Gangs, Intelligence, Mafia, Maritime crime and piracy, Modern slavery and human trafficking, Money laundering, Nuclear smuggling, Policing, Prisons, Recruitment, State control, Terrorism, Threat assessment, Use of technology by criminals, War and conflict.
Recent publications
Maretto, R. (2023). On IGOs and states to improve intervention policies over governed and ungoverned territories vis-à-vis the trans-national criminal networks increasing local and global reciprocally operations. Paper presented at the 2023 ACUNS Annual Meeting: "Making, Keeping, and Sustaining Peace," The WED-C7 Panel on Organized Crime, The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington D.C., USA.
Maretto, R. (2022). The lack of surveillance and converging & simultaneous intervention policies on national maritime territories as global criminal hubs to disrupt transnational organized crime groups' operations. Paper presented at the 2022 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime: 24-hour Conference on Organized Crime, Panel 14C ‘Understanding organized crime: Definitions and governance,’ The GI-TOC, 14th October 2022, Geneva, Switzerland.
Maretto, R. (2022). The Dionisio Foianini Triangle - Addressing and meeting the non-State armed actors vis-à-vis the ongoing national and international security dilemmas. Paper presented at the 2022 European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR): 4th General Conference on Organised Crime, Panel: Responses to Organised Crime in Times of Crisis and Critical Environments, Section: The Standing Group on Organised Crime (SGOC) Conference, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 4–6 July 2022.
Maretto, R. (2020). On the transnational organized crime groups' illegal reciprocal routes throughout South America, Africa, and Europe. Paper presented at the 2020 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime: 24-hour Conference on Organized Crime, D17 Session: Illicit Markets and Smuggling, The GI-TOC, 11th November 2020, Geneva, Switzerland.
Maretto, R. (2020). On the non-State armed groups and organized armed groups operational but not addressed in the Amazon trapezoid region. Paper presented at the UN OHCHR / The Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), Geneva, Switzerland.