3. Why Costs of corruption: from $800 billion to $2 trillion in current U.S. dollars (source: United Nations, World Bank) Cost of war on terrorism in US since 9/11: over $1 trillion (Source: US Congress Research Service report) – March 2011 Cost of global drug trade: over $321,6 billion (Source: United Nations report, 2005) http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/features/GTD-Data-Rivers.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20190295~menuPK:34457~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf

4. Observatory on financial crisis LOW COMPLIANCE ORGANIZED CRIME CORRUPTION Extorsion racket systems Crime Observatory Observatory on epidemics

5. A paradigm shift in our understanding of complex, global, socially interactive systems revealing the hidden laws and processes underlying societies A deep change in the way policy makers face enormous challenges ranging from financial and economic instability to crime, environmental and climate change

6. Provide an innovative and evolutionary view of crime and social failures Forecast social failures and crime dynamics in interaction with other social phenomena Help design policy modeling (legal answers and social policies) Train decision makers through serious games and simulations Support decision makers in the public and in the private sector

12. Increase of tax revenues Reduction in the costs of crime and crime prevention Higher efficacy of fight against crime Higher quality of policy /decision making

14. About the stakeholders…

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