US Governmental Resources
• Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), State Department
• Drug Enforcement Administration
• National Drug Intelligence Center
• The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
• The National Institute on Drug Abuse
Non- and Inter-Governmental Resources
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission
• Observatorio Interamericano sobre Drogas
• International Drug Policy Consortium
• Open Society Institute Global Drug Policy Program
• Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy
• Rome Consensus for a Humanitarian Drug Policy
News
• Just the Facts News Links
• Drug War Chronicle: Stop the Drug War
• UNODC press releases
Government publications re. drug policy
• Government Accountability Office reports on drug trafficking
• Congressional Research Service reports on drug abuse
Publications from think tanks and NGOs re. drug policy
• Council on Foreign Relations, “Backgrounder: Mexico’s Drug War” (November 2008)
• The Brookings Institution, Partnership for the Americas Commission, “Re-Thinking U.S.-Latin American Relations: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World” (November 2008)
• Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), “Chemical Reactions: Fumigation–Spreading Coca and Threatening Colombia’s Ecological and Cultural Diversity” (April 2008)
• WOLA, “The Captive State: Organized Crime and Human Rights in Latin America” (February 2008)
• WOLA, “Reforming the Ranks: Drug Violence and Police Reform in Mexico” (June 2007)
• WOLA, “Assesment of Drug Control policy in Bolivia” (April 2007)
• WOLA, “State of Siege: Drug-Related Violence and Corruption in Mexico” (July 2006)
Theory
• Svante E. Cornell, “Interaction of Narcotics and Conflict” (pdf)
Rule of Law
• Vera Institute of Justice, “Developing Indicators to Measure the Rule of Law: A Global Approach” (pdf)
• Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform, “A Beginner’s Guide to SSR” (pdf)
Police Reform
• Washington Office on Latin America, “From Peace to Governance: Police Reform and the International Community” (pdf)
• FLACSO Chile, “Reforma policial y participación militar en el combate a la delincuencia” (pdf)
• National Institute of Justice, “Democratizing the Police Abroad: What to Do and How to Do It” (pdf)
