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In the Media
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...
The police have failed to control violence. The army is doing no better
22/03/2018
Originally published...
22/03/2018
Por Katherine Aguirre Tobón
Publicado originalmente en El País Cali
El Plan Fortaleza es un...
20/03/2018
By David Biller
Originally published on Bloomberg
In the world’s most murderous country, gun...
19/03/2018
By Anthony Faiola and Marina Lopes
Originally published on the Washington Post
RIO DE JANEIRO...
15/03/2018
As published on the New York Times
RIO DE JANEIRO — On the eve of her killing on a downtown...
Ousmane Diallo and Gustavo de Carvalho
More than two and a half years since its signature in Bamako,...
An influx of eateries and artistic businesses is helping to sweep away decades of neglect and decay
13/03/2018
Originally...
13/03/2018
Originally published on the World Economic Forum website
Latin America’s largest city,...
05/03/2018
MARINA ESTARQUE
FROM FOLHA DE S.PAULO, AMAZONAS
Bodó, the Amazon sailfin catfish,...
There is a widespread perception that violence in Rio de Janeiro is spinning out of control.
During...
February, 2018
The Globe and Mail
Anne-Marie Slaughter is an academic, foreign-policy analyst,...
Innovations and Challenges from Colombia
Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bogotá
UN Security...
Febrero, 2018
World Economic Forum
En la reunión del Foro Económico Mundial en Davos la...
February, 2018
Project Syndicate
Since the end of World War II, Latin America has maintained a...
Venezuelans escaping economic crisis at home are also now pouring into Brazil. Though neighboring Colombia...
The question is whether our world leaders are capable of fully understanding what is happening in real...
Lessons from Colombia
Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bogotá
A signed agreement between warring parties...
iPolitics
Fevereiro, 2018
Three competing versions of the future world order clashed at the World Economic...
We are fixated to the forward march of democracies and the underlying principles on which they are based,...
The 2030 Agenda as Strategic Entry Point
Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bogotá
In 2017, UN Secretary...
It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the global liberal order hangs precariously in the bal...
Adriana Erthal Abdenur
In the 19th century Max Weber, a keen student of purpose-driven bureaucracies,...
Esta semana se celebró en El Salvador el foro internacional “Diálogos sobre seguridad urbana: datos,...
La proporción entre el número de asesinatos y el tamaño de la población en los respectivos estados fue...
While the order has come under criticism in the past, it has never experienced anything quite like the...
Para Katherine Aguirre- Tobón, investigadora del instituto Igarapé, un día sin homicidios es una anomalía...
Lessons from Colombia, Somaliland & Southern Somalia
Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Laurie Druelle
As...
While some world leaders resist global cooperation, city leaders are working across borders to tackle...