‘Come meet us in Dubai’: The new offshoring of grand corruption
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During an interview one of us (Ricardo Soares de Oliveira) carried out in 2017, an African high net-worth individual said he was told by an executive whose business had long served him out of London: “Come meet us in Dubai”.
This is part of a large but still misunderstood shift. In response to the hardening of rules for foreign money of dubious origins in traditional financial centres, sensitive business has been moving toward new, more permissive jurisdictions. This offshoring of services is giving corrupt strategies a new lease of life, while also making the fightback more difficult.
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Nuclear memories for the future
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Professor Benoît Pélopidas, founder of the Nuclear Knowledges programme is one of the keynote speakers of the Nobel Peace Conference 2025, to take place on 6 August in Oslo, Norway.
The Nobel Peace Conference 2025 celebrates Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo’s work for a world free of nuclear weapons. The same day, the world marks 80 years since the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With the testimonies of the survivors as a backdrop, and in a time of international tension, we discuss today’s nuclear threat and look at solutions which strengthen the work to ensure that these weapons are never used again.
Visit the conference programme and list of speakers.
This conference is the occasion to announce the recent publication of the Open Access article, "Nuclear memories for the future: Gaps and forgetting in European publics’ understandings of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", by Sterre van Buuren, Benoît Pélopidas and Alexander Sorg.
On the issue on luck and nuclear weapons, we invite you to view the video presentation by Prof. Benoît Pélopidas
The full ERC final conference "Nuclear Weapons Choices - Governing Vulnerabilities between Past and Present" is also available online.
Cover image: A post-war model of 'Little Boy', the atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945
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