Join Dr Orly Stern and Olivia Allison for a webinar examining the gendered dynamics of Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territories. They will consider how women participate in - and are harmed by - the illicit financial flows (IFF) underpinning the occupation economy.

The will explore how women are embedded across mid‑ and lower‑level administrative, judicial, and civil service structures, facilitatating property seizures, business expropriations, and corrupt reconstruction schemes.

Join SOC ACE researchers - Dr Zahid Mumtaz and Dr Caryn Peiffer - for a webinar exploring the complex relationship between corruption and informal security welfare regimes, with Pakistan as a case study. In contexts where formal welfare systems are weak or inaccessible, people often depend on kinship ties, community structures, and patron‑client networks for social protection.

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Join the SOC ACE Webinar to launch new research by Olivia Allison (University of Exeter/RUSI), ‘Looting Mariupol: Russia’s use of illicit finance and economic crime in occupied Ukraine’ and explore how Russia is using illicit finance and economic crime in occupied Ukraine to create new networks and bolster vested interests, often linked to Russian security services.

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New ACE Seminar! Join SOC ACE researcher, Dr Tena Prelec (University of Rijeka), and discussants Dr Bertram Lang (Philipps University Marburg) and Dr Claudia Baez Camargo (Basel Institute), to critically explore the concept of strategic corruption, an emerging framework for understanding the instrumental use of transnational corruption in advancing political and economic objectives. Register here or click through for more information!