ICTD Research Fellow Max Gallien talked in-depth about his work researching smuggling in North Africa during an episode of the ‘Babel: Translating the Middle East’ podcast run by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
“[W]orking with communities is really important in dealing with smuggling. It has an even stronger economic aspect to it, and even stronger recognition of the degree to which communities have been economically dependent on it,” he said.
This is what “makes it so difficult to engage with policymakers on this issue, because it als makes it often vey expensive to deal with,” he added.
Listen to the podcast here or read the transcript.
