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In the Media
Social Technologies for Peacebuilding?
Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bissau
South-South...
The world’s cities generate more than 75% of global carbon emissions – it’s time for them to play a more...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
November, 2017
BARCELONA – Many cities are being overwhelmed by growing...
What Role in Peacebuilding?
Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bissau
Far from a novelty,...
Regional efforts like those against the LRA and Boko Haram could reinvent continental approaches to conflicts
Gustavo...
Here are some of the key talking points and a small selection of the ideas proposed by Seven hundred...
the Role of Climate Change in Recurring Violence
Giovanna Kuele and Ana Cristina Miola
The deadliest...
Local and international actors should reinforce their support to preventing conflict and sustaining peace...
The Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) Debate, Viewed from Brazil
Having rejected its demogogues just a few years ago, the region is now poised to welcome them back
The Safe Cities Index 2017 is a report from The Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by NEC.
Whether caused by a lone wolf or an intimate partner, gun violence is expensive
Delivering an effective law enforcement and criminal justice response to organized crime is challenging...
Progress has been made, but financing remains one among several key issues that must be resolved
The CopCast app, which was created by the Igarapé Institute in Brazil along with Google’s Jigsaw incubator,...
Feuding gangs and empty coffers are pushing up the murder rate
La información y el análisis son la única manera de evidenciar los verdaderos cambios en violencia.
A jump in Chinese investment could have a big impact on Latin America's largest economy.
Robert Muggah is back on TED. In this TED Global NYC, Muggah articulates an ancient but resurging idea:...
No Dia Internacional da Paz, organizações ligadas à consolidação da paz emitem declaração conjunta.
The Brazilian government is pushing to privatize state assets in a bid to raise revenues and boost investment....
In Rio de Janeiro, where murder rates this year have soared to their highest levels in a decade, violence...
The sense of unease on many Latin American city streets is palpable. Fear and uncertainty affect people’s...
La vuelta de la violencia en Río coincide con un recorte del 30% del presupuesto de seguridad en un Estado...
Even with the surge in attacks over the past three years, the number of deaths are much lower than then.
In Rio de Janeiro’s bohemian neighborhood of Santa Teresa, the rain-forest chic Aprazivel restaurant...
The Brazilian government has launched a consultation on the future of CGI.br, the body that sets internet...
The end of war hasn't released Colombia from the grip of violence. Homicide rates have fallen in the...
Latin American Solutions for a Latin American Problem, an article to Foreign Affairs.
While Brazil made some important strides in sustainable development over the past two decades, it also...
Ilona Szabó talks to Americas Quartely about violence in Rio de Janeiro.
Published originally on Insight Crime: Community policing has become the go-to security strategy in the...
Financial Times article talks about violence in Rio de Janeiro
Uma breve análise sobre o projeto de segurança do Rio de Janeiro
Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Robert Muggah falam sobre a crise da Venezuela
InSight Crime
August, 2017
In March 2017, two Rio de Janeiro police officers were recorded on video executing...
1.6 millones de brasileros fueron obligados a dejar sus hogares entre 2009 y 2016, de acuerdo a estimaciones...
HuffPost
July, 2017
Los homicidios no son el único problema que enfrenta el puerto guerrerense, uno de...
La Nación
Julho, 2017
O Rio de Janeiro continua lindo… Pero cada vez más peligroso. Cuando faltan...
Financial Times
July, 2017
In the EU, the chances of being killed by a terrorist in 2016 were just five...
OpenDemocracy
July, 2017
Rio de Janeiro is not one, but many cities. There´s the one that most people...
OpenDemocracy
July, 2017
If the test of successful political leadership could be distilled to a single...
OpenDemocracy
July, 2017
This article is published as part of the campaign Instinto de Vida.
Part of...
Financial Times
June, 2017
In the EU, the chances of being killed by a terrorist in 2016 were just five...
The Guardian
June, 2017
A silent emergency is spreading across Central America and Mexico. Unprecedented...
Devex
June, 2017
Brazil is the site of not one, but multiple forced migration crises. Since 2016, thousands...
The Conversation, Robert Muggah, 28/06/2017
In the 1990s, the capital of Colombia’s mountainous Antioquia...
USA Today
June, 2017
The new system works like this: Officers download the CopCast app on a smartphone,...
The Globe and Mail – ROBERT MUGGAH
Published Jun. 17, 2017
The world is buckling under multiple...
The Guardian – Maria Beatriz Nogueira and Maiara Folly
Brazil is failing to respond to one of the...