'A Nodal Approach to a Global Problem: Tackling Sports Corruption through Collaborative Security Architectures'

'A Nodal Approach to a Global Problem: Tackling Sports Corruption through Collaborative Security Architectures' 
19 November 2012

Sophie Nakueira, a doctoral candidate at the Centre of Criminology will be presenting a paper at the Interpol Global Academic Experts Meeting for Integrity in Sport, on the 28th -29th of November 2012.

This Global Experts Meeting, which will be held in Singapore, ‘brings together international experts from academia to discuss issues surrounding match-fixing and how to combat corruption in football through channels of education’.

Nakueira’s paper which is entitled ‘A Nodal Approach to a Global Problem: Tackling Sports Corruption through Collaborative Security Architectures’ highlights the role of international laws and domestic laws in addressing global issues and the importance of a networked or collaborative security governance model to addressing issues of match-fixing.

Sophie’s doctoral thesis examines collaborative security structures of sports mega-events. Her thesis title is the ‘New Security Governance: Transnational Private Actors, Neoliberalism and the Art of Enrolment.’