Wednesday, April 14, 2021
6:30 PM (ET)
Event Type
Academics Speakers & Programs
Department
International Studies
Event Url
Link
https://events.ship.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=291808
Meth and Methodology: Combining GIS
and Fieldwork to Investigate Illegal Economies in Afghanistan
Mr.
Richard Brittan and Dr. David Mansfield
Wednesday, April 14, 6:30 p.m.
Zoom Webinar Presentation:
https://ship.zoom.us/j/91810126746
To
discover Afghanistan's dramatic rise in methamphetamine production, the
speakers integrated high-resolution imagery and in-depth fieldwork to investigate
remote and insecure parts of Afghanistan. Their detective work began with aerial
photos of buckets of green gunge in Afghanistan's southwest that turned out to
be ground ephedra, a crop that grows wild in the central highlands. The cheap raw
material fuels a meth lab industry that produces low-cost, high-quality drugs for
the global black market.
Richard
Brittan is the founder of Alcis, a geographic information services company. David
Mansfield is an independent consultant and author of A State Built on Sand:
How Opium Undermined Afghanistan. Both speakers have worked extensively with
the U.S. and U.K. governments, NATO, and many international and
non-governmental organizations.
Sponsored
by the International Studies Program.