The International Peace Institute IPI

The report argues peace operations usually treat organized crime like the elephant in the room: impossible to overlook, but too big to deal with.

It can be concluded from the report that UN peace operations have yet to fully adjust from a purely responsive mechanism to violent conflicts to a comprehensive strategy for stabilizing societies, including measures to address and eradicate organized crime. As trajectories of organized crime and peace operations converge, so too should operational responses – particularly in fragile states.
The Elephant in the Room