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With a MMOWGLI crowd-sourcing/simulation platform playtest currently underway, I thought I would provide a quick list of resources on Somali piracy and counter-piracy operations as a resource for participants.
- Wikipedia, Piracy in Somalia
- Wikipedia, Politics of Somalia
- International Crisis Group, Somalia
- UN OCHA ReliefWeb, Somalia
- Detailed information on economic and humanitarian conditions
- United Nations Security Council, Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to Security Council resolution 1897 (2009)
- UNSG update on measures to address Somali piracy.
- International Chamber of Commerce, Commercial Crime Services
- Best Management Practice 3: Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia and Arabian Sea
- detailed guidelines to ship owners, operators, and masters
- NATO, Operation Ocean Shield
- general information on NATO counter-piracy operations
- NATO Shipping Center, Counter Piracy Operation Ocean Shield
- live piracy reports/fusion center
- EU Navfor Somalia
- Information on EU counter-piracy operations
- EU Navfor Somalia, Maritime Security Centre (Horn of Africa)
- Information for shippers, online registration of vessels and routes for protection purpose
- UK House of Lords, Combating Somali Piracy: the EU’s Naval Operation Atalanta
- detailed report on EU counter-piracy efforts, issued April 2010
- Geopoliticity, The Economics of Piracy
- Analysis of the economics of piracy, May 2011
- Congressional Research Service, Piracy Off the Horn of Africa
- Report release April 2011.
- Yahoo: Somali piracy news
- latest news on Somali piracy
And last, but by no means least (from Wired magazine)::
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