# Book launch: Transforming the War on Drugs, with Dr. Annette Idler #### calendar\_today Date and Time **December 8, 2021** 04:00PM - 05:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Zoom** [ Registration is required arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkd-GtrTsiEt17D61WMWkwWyNKlo_NG1c9) [Book launch: Transforming the War on Drugs](https://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/special-event-book-launch-transforming-the-war-on-drugs-12-8-21?delta=0) **This session is open to the public and will be recorded. [Registration is required](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkd-GtrTsiEt17D61WMWkwWyNKlo_NG1c9) for this Zoom webinar.** The war on drugs has failed, but consensus in the international drug policy debate on the way forward is missing. Amidst this moment of uncertainty, militarized lenses on the global illicit drug problem continue to neglect the complexity of the causes and consequences that this war is intended to defend or defeat. Challenging conventional thinking in defense and security sectors, *[Transforming the War on Drugs](https://wcfia.harvard.edu/Description:%20Book%20launch%20with%20co-editor%20Annette%20Idler,%20WSP%20Visiting%20Scholar%20and%20Director%20of%20the%20Global%20Security%20Programme%20at%20Oxford%20University.%20%20The%20war%20on%20drugs%20has%20failed,%20but%20consensus%20in%20the%20international%20drug%20policy%20debate%20on%20the%20way%20forward%20is%20missing.%20Amidst%20this%20moment%20of%20uncertainty,%20militarized%20lenses%20on%20the%20global%20illicit%20drug%20problem%20continue%20to%20neglect%20the%20complexity%20of%20the%20causes%20and%20consequences%20that%20this%20war%20is%20intended%20to%20defend%20or%20defeat.%20Challenging%20conventional%20thinking%20in%20de)* constitutes the first comprehensive and systematic effort to theoretically, conceptually, and empirically investigate the impacts of the war on drugs. ### Speaker: **Annette Idler**, *Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program*. Director, Global Security Programme, Pembroke College, Oxford University. ### Chair: **Melani Cammett**, *Center Director*. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. ### Discussant: **Peter Andreas**, John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University. ### Contact: **Sarah Banse** **Erin Goodman** ### Remote Access Information: **To join by computer:** [https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkd-GtrTsiEt17D61WMWkwWyNKlo\_NG1c9](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fDpg8sZFQxatMU61pUA5WA) **Please note:** This event requires registration in advance in order to receive the meeting link and password. --- Attachments- [ image booklaunch120821.jpg ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8356/files/fellows/files/booklaunch120821.jpg) --- See also:- [ Academic Year 2021–22 ](/academic-year/academic-year-2021%E2%80%9322) - [ Open to the public ](/events/open-public) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://scholarsprogram.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/1622751/event-feed.ics) Copy link link