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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...
[El Clarin. Alejandra Sánchez y José Luis Pardo]
En América Latina sólo vive el 8% de la población mundial,...
Bloomberg View – Data mapping offers cops the chance to leapfrog not just criminals, but a stodgy...
WEForum
June, 2017
The world has suffered an alarming increase in terrorism events over the past five...
06 Jun 2017
Robert MuggahResearch Director, Igarapé Institute
The world is facing unprecedented levels...
WEForum
June, 2017
The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65...
Earth TimeLapse, an interactive platform created by global security expert Robert Muggah and Carnegie...
VIOLENCIA – Caracas encabeza la lista con 130,35 homicidios por cada 100.000 habitantes
Latinoamérica...
Pacifista!
May, 2017
Este domingo 28 de mayo se cumple un año de la intervención en la zona de “la L”,...
Open Society Foundations
May, 2017
Earlier this month in Culiacán, Mexico, according to a report from...
Business Insider
May, 2017
In the US, your risk of death due to terrorism is roughly 1 in 46,000.
Around...
Razón Pública
May, 2017
Por Katherine Aguirre, pesquisadora de Instituto Igarapé
Incumplimientos de todos...
New York Times
May, 2017
RIO DE JANEIRO — After months of trading messages on social media praising...
The Colombian Post
May, 2017
‘Some of the richest people in the world are from Latin America’
Inequality...
WEForum
May, 2017
President Trump’s administration has made repeated claims that its proposed...
DW
May, 2017
El presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, llega este 17 de mayo a Washington para su...
Business Insider
May. 2017
President Trump’s administration has made repeated claims that its proposed...
The Guardian
May, 2017
The Brazilian authorities have been accused of turning a blind eye to a human...
Americas Quarterly
April, 2017
That Mexico’s drug cartels get their firepower from the United States...
Yahoo Notícias en Español
April, 2017
La exposición a la violencia doméstica, la ausencia de escuelas...
JOTA
April, 2017
New infrastructure will make Brazil an even more critical component of the world’s Internet
Three...
O Globo
April, 2017
Referência mundial em governança, americano deu palestra no Rio a convite da FGV...
Defense One
April, 2017
Brazilian-made weapons – whether firearms, ammunition or cluster munitions –...
Nexo
April, 2017
Especialista em segurança pública e política de drogas responde a perguntas dos leitores...
Devex
April 7, 2017
Latin American and the Caribbean accounts for only 8 percent of the world’s population...
WEF
April 7, 2017
If yesterday was about analysing the challenges facing the region, today was about...
RFI
April 6, 2017
Brazil is on the sidelines of today’s wars, but at a Rio defense fair this week...
The Economist
March 31, 2017
COCAINE is grown primarily in South America, and trafficked to the world’s...
PRI
March 29, 2017
Brazil has a murder problem. It also has a gun problem. Both could get worse if some...