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James Cockayne

James Cockayne is co-director of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, with programmes in New York and Washington, DC, Europe, Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. He is co-editor of Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies? (Routledge, 2011) and lead author of Beyond Market Forces: Regulating the Global Security Industry (IPI, 2009). A former director of the Transnational Crime Unit and the Extradition Unit in the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, he chaired the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice and is a founding editorial member of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies . He has also worked in war crimes trials in Tanzania and Sierra Leone and private practice in Sydney and Paris. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney (BA (Hons, Univ Medal); LLB (Hons)) and New York University (LLM, Hauser Scholar, Jerome Lipper Prize), and is a member of the International Institute for Security Studies.

Research areas: Armed violence and conflict in fragile settings

Publications

State fragility, organised crime and peacebuilding: towards a more strategic approach: James Cockayne 15 September 2011
Fragile states, with their ready pools of unemployed labour, populations inured to violence and weakened state capacity, offer sites of competitive advantage for militant organisations, criminal networks and political leaders alike. Collaboration among them may benefit all three – financing militancy, protecting crime and securing poli... more