Celebrating World Maritime Day

Webinar takes stock of piracy and counter-piracy infrastructures in the Gulf of Guinea

To celebrate World Maritime Day 28 September 2023, Senior Researcher Jessica Larsen participated in a webinar gathering international scholars on maritime security, government officials and private sector shipping representatives. The webinar took stock of piracy and counter-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Guinea, in a year that also marks the tenth anniversary of regional and international efforts to curb maritime crime through the so-called Yaoundé Code of Conduct signed in 2013.

The webinar focused discussions on the ways in which the concept of infrastructure can help policy-makers. Firstly to frame the analysis of piracy and counter-piracy, and secondly to support a deeper understanding of how to anticipate piracy and related crimes, while enhancing efforts to counter it.

The webinar is part of the Danida-funded research project Counter-Piracy Infrastructures in the Gulf of Guinea and was organised by Centre for Maritime Law and Security in Ghana.

The webinar can be streamed here (external Google drive, use the third link "video1410791346.mp4")

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Photo/illustration by Cecilie Castor von Spreckelsen

DIIS Policy Brief

2023

Power and path dependencies may weaken EU counter-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Guinea

It is useful to look at the EU’s counter-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Guinea as a piece of large-scale infrastructure that contains both visible and invisible elements. Using this lens illuminates the often unequal ways that technology, funding, expertise and other resources flow from the EU to Gulf of Guinea states. It also highlights power and path dependencies that need to be considered in order to tackle maritime crime in the region in a holistic and sustainable manner.

Celebrating World Maritime Day

Power and path dependencies may weaken EU counter-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Guinea

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