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Brazil police arrest more than 400 people in drug gang crackdown
Robert Muggah, co-founder of Brazil-based security and development think tank Igarape Institute, said...
World Economic Forum
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Mapping environmental crime seen as key to slowing Amazon forest losses
“This includes shining a light not just on crime groups and shady business but also the corrupt government...
Project Syndicate
The COVID City
As we show in our new book Terra Incognita, COVID-19 is exacerbating multiple forms of inequality within...
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Robert Muggah and Andrés Schipani: "Brazil Today and In The Future"
Brazil, a country in the world’s top 10 in population and GDP, is in the midst of three destructive...
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Strategic Dialogue on Global Trends: Violence and the Coronavirus
Welcome to the 2020 Virtual Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development 'Sustaining Peace in the Time of...
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100 Maps From CMU's EarthTime Chart Humanity's Greatest Challenges
EarthTime, the innovative data visualization technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE...
Vice
3 of the World’s Deadliest Serial Killers Come From the Same Place: Why?
Muggah, who runs a think-tank working on data-driven justice across Latin America called Igarapé Institute,...
Foreign Policy
World Economic Forum
Why maps matter in our response to COVID-19
During the first half of 2020 when more than two-thirds of the world’s population was in lockdown, many...
Foreign Policy
Trump’s TikTok and WeChat Bans Could Shatter the Global Internet
What remains of the global, open internet came under attack this month.
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What’s at stake in the U.S.-China rivalry? The very future of the internet
The U.S.-China dispute just took a dangerous turn. Late last week, the U.S. government issued three separate...
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How maps can guide us to a better future
As explained in my new book with Ian Goldin – Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years...
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Brazil and COVID-19: A Perfect Storm?
On July 7, Jair Bolsonaro, president of the world’s second hardest-hit country by COVID-19, announced...
Project Syndicate
Robert Muggah Says More…
This week, PS talks with Robert Muggah, a co-founder of the SecDev Group and the Igarapé Institute.
bbc
Brazil's racial reckoning: 'Black lives matter here, too'
A week before the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis in May, Brazilians were mourning...
Passblue
The UN’s 75th Birthday: A Critical Chance for the Globe to Save Itself
As consensus was finally achieved on July 7, a final draft of the UN-75 political declaration has been...
Americas Quarterly
How Latin America Can Tackle Its Post-COVID Priorities
On multiple fronts, data-driven policymaking has informed and improved Latin America’s response to COVID-19...
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Forecasting the Dividends of Conflict Prevention from 2020-2030
This study considers the trajectories of armed conflict in a 'business-as-usual' scenario between 20...
open democracy
Brazil feels the consequences of pandemic populism
The only surprise about Jair Bolsonaro's diagnosis for COVID-19 was that it took him so long to test...
Foreign Policy
To Downsize Bloated, Too-Powerful Police, Look at These Examples
Across the United States, the debate over the future of policing is gathering steam.
CBC
Testing positive for COVID-19 won't change Bolsonaro's pandemic response, says analyst
Political analyst Robert Muggah says Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro's positive COVID-19 test may spell...
ecowatch
Brazil’s Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has presided over the world's second worst coronavirus...
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How Brazilians react to the President's handling of COVID-19
Brazil has now surpassed a million COVID-19 cases, a grim milestone for the country with the second most...
chicago council
Deep Dish: Bolsonaro's COVID-19 Response Threatens Brazil's Democracy
Brazil is poised to overtake the United States for most total COVID-19 infections and deaths globally...
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Vinn eller forsvinn for demokratiet i USA?
«I can’t breathe!» «Jeg får ikke puste!» George Floyds siste ord er blitt slagordet for en verdensomfattende...
medium
Social unrest could undo or renew America
“I can’t breathe.” The final words gasped by George Floyd are now a global meme. They were recorded on...
the guardian
'Instead of doctors, they send police to kill us': locked-down Rio faces deadly raids
Maria Diva do Nascimento was worried as she set off for her job at one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest hospitals...
Foreign Policy
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Permanently Expand Government Powers
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the quality of governments around the world. Many national leaders...
conversation
Megacity slums are incubators of disease – but coronavirus response isn’t helping the billion people who live in them
Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into...
World Economic Forum
This is how cities in the Global South can fight COVID-19 most effectively
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be receding in some parts of Western Europe, East Asia and...
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro continues to downplay the pandemic
Head of Igarape Institute in Rio de Janeiro gives us more on the absurd situation in Brazil, due to the...
Foreign Policy
The Pandemic Has Triggered Dramatic Shifts in the Global Criminal Underworld
To say that COVID-19 changes everything is already a cliché. But it’s also true.
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Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, Urbanites Are Eyeing the Suburbs
Increased time inside close quarters during the coronavirus pandemic is causing some urbanites to consider...
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Joint letter on the Situation of the Yanomami in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Carta Conjunta sobre a situação dos Yanomami e Ye'kwana no contexto da pandemia do COVID-19
Project Syndicate
Brazil Needs Intensive Care
Following the recent ouster of Brazil’s popular justice minister, Sergio Moro, the world’s fourth-largest...
climate diplomacy
Don’t let the blue skies fool you: in Brazil, the pandemic is bad news for climate and environment
As the novel coronavirus spreads throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, social media have been rife...
financial times
El Salvador wields heavy hand to contain murder rate
After a temporary lull brought about by sweeping Coronavirus quarantine measures, violence is increasing...
Foreign Policy
How Life in Our Cities Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic
Cities are at the center of this pandemic, as they have been during so many plagues in history.
DEVEX
World Bank needs to make fragility a central priority in the COVID-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic is painfully exposing the world's many interconnected fragilities
financial times
Sérgio Moro resignation adds to pressure on Brazil’s Bolsonaro
When Sérgio Moro resigned as justice minister on Friday, accusing Jair Bolsonaro of meddling in a police...
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How do you build a city for a pandemic?
The pandemic has turned the world outside our doorsteps into a newly formed wilderness. Public spaces...
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Nota à imprensa sobre a saída do ministro da Justiça e Segurança Pública Sergio Moro
A demissão do ministro Sergio Moro é um abalo sísmico na política brasileira. Sua saída do governo sinaliza...
World Economic Forum
Migrants and mayors are the unsung heroes of COVID-19. Here's why
In every crisis it is the poor, sick, disabled, homeless and displaced who suffer the most.
npr
Redesigning The COVID-19 City
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the world's bustling cities to a screeching halt
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Brazil’s First National Cybersecurity Strategy: An Analysis of its Past, Present and Future
Published in Internet Governance Project By Louise Marie Hurel Late February this year, Brazil published...
Project Syndicate
Post-pandemic cities
Our cities will not be the same after COVID-19.
Foreign Policy
We Can Make the Post-Coronavirus World a Much Less Violent Place
Published in Foreign Policy By Robert Muggah The world is convulsed by the novel coronavirus, but that...
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Strategic Notes on Third Generation Gangs
Strategic Notes on Third Generation Gangs builds upon the third generation street gang (3Gen Gang) theory...
the new humanitarian
Coronavirus in the city: A Q&A on the catastrophe confronting the urban poor
To understand more about the crisis confronting the urban poor, The New Humanitarian interviewed Robert...
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