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GNOSIS - n. 2/2007
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Assets of the Criminal Organizations at the service of society
 Answers by: Raffaele CANTONE, Francesco FORGIONE, Angela NAPOLI, Lucia REA
 It is a year at least since we all started whitnessing a clear attack of the clans against those groups set up to re-utilize the assets and goods siezed from the criminal organizations: could this be a challenge and, all toghether, a message to the institutions? It clearly appears that, for the fight against the mafia organizations to prevail, we need to locate their assets, sieze them and re-convert them... (photo Ansa)
Editorial
Cronology of Terrorism
INTERVIEW

Reflections on 1977
by the Eminent former President of the Republic
Francesco Cossiga
 edited by Pio MARCONI
 Since the year 1977, there has been an ever increasing number of journalistic and scientific works dedicated to a crucial period of contemporary history: the 70’s and, above all, the year 1977. The 1970’s are accompanied by a serious economic, social and political crisis of the West, but they represent also a laboratory able to generate new products: both innovative and regressive. On one side, in Italy and Germany, there is the effort to overcome the great divisions tied to the Cold War and to the antagonisms of the 30’s: In Italy, with the Historic Compromise, in Germany, with the Great Coalition. On another side, the large majorities went hand in hand with the multiplication of the conflicts, and to the rooting of the political violence....
CONFERENCES

Organized Crime
the phenomenon and the method
 Piero Luigi VIGNA
 The SISDe’s Academy hosts academics and experts in topics of institutional interest, so as to support the knowledge of those who operate in the intelligence community. Because of the peculiarity of the topics dealt with each time, we deemed convenient to offer to our readers the content of the conferences. We shall start with the speech given by Dr. Pietro VIGNA, on the phenomenon of organized crime. The speaker, while outlining the new strategies of “Cosa Nostra”, focuses, amongst other aspects, on the evolution of the mafia enterprise, that has been changing, since its original form, into its present shape, where the presence of the mafia’s interests remains concealed to the outside world.
Coca and kidnappings a war to be won
 edited by Fabrizio FEO
The notable drop in the use of cocaine recently registered in zones like North America is counterbalanced by an alarming increase in many European countries, where levels have reached among the highest in the world. A correct evaluation of the phenomenon cannot be reached without considering an analysis of the vertiginous change in the scenes relative to both the production and commercialization of narcotics and the consequent repercussions, particularly, on Columbia, one of the major producers of cocaine, which is, at the moment, shaken by problems of guerrilla warfare, kidnappings and by a tormented “moral question”. Let us try to understand how the situation stands through considerations made by Columbia’s Vice-President, Francisco Santos Calderon in a recent interview with Tg3.( Francisco Santos Calderon)
Counter terrorism looking for a european policy
 Ciro SBAILO'
By now, united Europe represents a geopolitical reality in the extreme foreground of the world scene. But still there is no coherent common policy in the fight against terrorism although on this ground one can speak of a “shared memory” on the Old continent. In this article, the various possible explanations for this deficit will be taken into consideration. In this regard, one realizes the tendency to add up, rather than to integrate, the various experiences, with the result of favouring the technical aspects over the precise political ones. Therefore, a compared analysis will be made of the principle European constitutional courses on the subject of fighting the subversive phenomena and of the management of emergency situations...
The complete version of issue no. 2/2011 will be online in February 2012.