LEAHN’s Greg Denham was a guest speaker at the Griffith Criminology Institute’s (GCI) ‘International Workshop on Drug Crime and Harm Minimisation’ at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University, Queensland. Speakers ere also present from with speakers from GCI, Yunnan Police College, Queensland Police Service, Victoria Police and Peking University.
The January 2019 workshop aimed to ‘Build innovation networks for harm reduction and drug law reform’ and was funded by the prestigious Australia-China Council awards from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Read more about the workshop below.
Project description
(Link to project on Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website)
“This project entails a two-day workshop, hosted by Griffith Criminology Institute, at Griffith University in January 2019. Practitioners and scholars from Yunnan Police College, the College of Criminal Law Science at Beijing Normal University, Wuhan University, and China’s Ministry of Health will be invited to join Australian scholars, police and health practitioners to exchange information on innovation that reduces the harm arising from illicit drugs and their regulation.
This project aims to lay the foundation for sustained future collaboration and networks between Chinese and Australian practitioners, police and scholars. The network will facilitate communication and collaboration in innovation that can inform drug law reform that reduces harms arising from illicit drugs and their regulation. This workshop will highlight opportunities and challenges for exchange of strategic and operational knowledge and practices, and identify and share cutting edge research that explores and tests new models for drug control and drug law reform that involves closer cooperation between police, health and welfare.”
