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In the Media
The murder epidemic in Latin America is an appalling tragedy. But it is also an incredibly complex public...
Nicaragua is taking a dangerous turn toward civil war. Since protests and riots began three months ago,...
There are ominous signs of growing turbulence around the world. The number of civil wars has doubled since...
This article explores the participation of uniformed personnel (military and police) from Latin America...
En Argentina y México, las leyes han sido reformadas con miras a introducir el principio del “donante...
Latin America accounts for 8% of the world’s population, but 33% of its homicides. A history of military...
Most technologies are dual use: take the case of digital technologies that are fundamentally transforming...
Two young men are lying face down on the green forest floor. His friend, he says, is the one in the dark...
The global migrant crisis is transcending borders, defining itself as one of the most important issues...
To Robert Muggah cities are places where people connect, feel safe and live. Places where people thrive and...
A new website that lets people delve into data on the world's cities has been launched.
Dr Robert...
Africans are moving to the city. Already home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population,...
Furious at corrupt politicians and fearful of deteriorating security, many Brazilians are calling for...
Did President Trump manufacture a border crisis where none existed?
A new website that lets people delve into data on the world's cities has been launched.
Dr Robert...
The images of children being forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are shocking...
The US Attorney General claims these separations are justified by the Bible and will deter illegal immigration,...
Today’s cities are on the frontline of crime and terrorism. While some of them are clearly more at risk than...
The risk of cyber crime is growing in Brazil amid a debate over the balance between security and privacy....
En Foro Global, Genaro Lozano entrevista a Robert Muggah, colaborador de Americas Quarterly y cofundador...
Millennials are an ethical bunch. Veganism is on the rise, primarily down to the environmental impact...
Rising homicide rates are damaging Brazil's economy and leading to skyrocketing public security costs.
Report finds that crime has worsened and lays out the cost over two decades
A new study shows that violence costs Brazil more than 4 percent of GDP. Here's how security policy could...
Rising homicide rates are damaging Brazil’s economy and leading to skyrocketing public security costs,...
Crime now costs Latin America’s largest economy over $75 billion a year, double the amount of two decades...
Brazil’s homicide rate soared over the past two decades even as the state and the public sector greatly...
Latin America is the planet's most urbanized region. In just over a generation - between 1950 and 2010...
The world is drowning in data. Every minute, there are roughly 456,000 tweets, 510,000 comments posted...
Today's armed conflicts also make conflict prevention more challenging. This is because armed conflict...
05/06/2018
Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Maiara Folly
Originally published on PassBlue
RIO DE JANEIRO —...
As warfare spikes, UN peacekeeping is at a breaking point, unable to keep up with relentless demand.
04/06/2018
by...
A bill passed yesterday by Brazil’s Lower House marks a major step forward in the push for privacy.
30/05/2018
The...
By Robert Muggah
24/05/2018
Originally published on the Small Wars Journal
Paraphrasing the Greek...
22/05/2018
Ana Paula Pellegrino, Dandara Tinoco, Renata Giannini, and Robert Muggah
Originally published...
Even from his jail cell, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, founder of the Workers’...
27/04/2018
By Deirdre Collings and Robert Muggah
Originally published on iPolitics
In war-torn Syria,...
Study shows region suffered 33 percent of world’s homicidal violence despite representing eight...
En cuatro países de la región, Brasil, Colombia, México y Venezuela, se comete un cuarto de todos los...
Region has experienced 2.5 million murders since 2000 and report paints bleak picture of extreme violence...
25/04/2018
by Amanda Erickson
Originally published on the Washington Post
Friends of 13-year-old...
Most of the world’s critical infrastructure—nuclear plants, electrical transmission systems, water...
Rejecting official information channels, Rio’s citizens are navigating their city using crowdsourced...
Latin America’s violent crime, and ways of dealing with it, have lessons for the rest of the world
05/04/2018
Originally...
Although democracy has spread from one country to more than 100 countries in the space of two centuries,...
In a country where jails are seen as ticking timebombs, a system of self-rule among inmates has proved...
Innovations from Kenya
Giovanna Marques Kuele and Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Nairobi
With the budget...
26/03/2018
by Robbert Muggah
Originally published on the Los Angeles Times
Gunfire kills or injures at...
Allegations that some of the victims were innocent residents executed in a revenge mission after a police...
By Anastasia Moloney
MEDELLIN, Colombia, March 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As a pink dusk...