Side Event at the 34th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ)
Date and Time: 19 May 2025, 3:00-6:00 PM.
Venue: Vienna International Centre, Press Room
Organisers: The United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network Institutes (PNI)
PNI workshop title: Addressing new, emerging, and evolving forms of crime, including crimes that affect the environment, smuggling of commercial goods, and trafficking in cultural property and other crimes targeting cultural heritage.
The PNI workshop is live streamed via Teams.
Programme of the PNI workshop
John Brandolino, Director of the Division for Treaty Affairs, UNODC
Dr. Abdul Majid bin Abdullah Al-Bunyan, President of Naif Arab University for Security Sciences
• Dr. Marco Colacurci, Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, University of Campania and Research Fellow, ISPAC
• Dr. Amanda Cabrejo Le Roux, Deputy Director of the Green Corruption Programme, Basel Institute on Governance
• Dr. Nasser Aldosari, Program Director of the Master’s in Economic Crimes, NAUSS
2) The Impact of AI on Emerging Forms of Crime
• Dr. Jisun Choi, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Team, KICJ
• Ms. Ottavia Galuzzi, Associate Expert, UNICRI
• Dr. Rick Brown, Deputy Director, AIC
3) Regional Cooperation in Combating Environmental Crimes, Smuggling, and Trafficking in Cultural Goods
• Ms. Daniella Misail-Nichitin, Minister of Internal Affairs, Moldova
• Mr. Borys Indychenko, Head of the Specialized Environmental Prosecutor’s Office of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Ukraine
• Mr. Flavio Bellio, Legal Officer, (SII)
About the PNI
The Institutes of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network (PNI) form a global alliance of interregional and regional institutes, specialised centres, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), working collectively to promote international cooperation in crime prevention and criminal justice through research, training, policy development, public education, and the exchange of information.
Members of the PNI include the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC); the Basel Institute on Governance (International Centre for Asset Recovery); the College for Criminal Law Science (CCLS), China; the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI), Finland; the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR & CJP), Canada; the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC), Canada; the Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), Costa Rica; the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council (ISPAC); the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), South Africa; the Korean Institute of Criminology and Justice (KICJ); the Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS), Saudi Arabia; the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), United States; the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), Sweden; the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (SII), Italy; the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ); the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), Japan; the United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFRI), Uganda; and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Italy.