Thomson Reuters Foundation News – A handful of cities are booming and rewiring international affairs, but many more are falling behind
World Economic Forum – The 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington were devastating, including for dozens of countries
Foreign Affairs – The world has never been safer than it is right now. Most forms of violence have dropped precipitously
Open Democracy – The hacktivist group has significantly ramped up its cyber attacks for the Olympic Games
A lot of people are fretting about the safety of the Summer Olympics. Zika fears have kept some athletes from competing in Rio de Janeiro. Then there’s the notoriously unsafe water in Guanabara Bay, an Olympic venue so filthy that some rowers and sailors are planning to wear protective gear.
Institute for Security Studies – The 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations (UN) last year has prompted new questions about
Council on Foreign Relations – Around the world, social media is being colonized not just by extremist groups but
Los Angeles Times – Brazilian security personnel are not the only ones preoccupied with security threats
TED Ideas – Cities are the the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization – and they’re where humanity’s struggle for survival will take place
Thomson Reuters Foundation News – Cities are the frontline of twenty first century humanitarianism
Igarapé Institute assembled governments and civil society groups from across Latin America to identify priorities and capacities to deliver on the evolving international peace and security agenda.
A brazilian state judge ordered mobile phone operators to block nationwide the extremely popular WhatsApp chat service
World Economic Forum – High-profile attacks on major cities in Belgium, France and the United States have set the world on edge
Virtually every government, business and civil society organization around the world has to contend with some kind of fragility
World Economic Forum – More and more cities are being held hostage to the threat of terrorism
The Guardian – This week, New York and LA reacted very differently to the same bomb scare. So how does a city judge how seriously to take such threats – and is it really that easy to bring a major metropolis to a halt?
The Wire – India records the second highest number of murders in the world every year
Are the Sustainable Development Goals in danger of collapsing under the weight of their own lofty ambitions?
The New Yorker – This is the second in a three-part series, “Faces from the Border,” about Mexican-American agents on the border between the United States and Mexico
India has reached the second largest number of homicides in the world, which policies should be applied in order to reverse these statistics?
Thanks to the technology revolution, policing in Brazil and around the world is changing
Violent crime is deeply entrenched in some developing countries, particularly in Latin America. Our experts offer these solutions to bringing down high rates
In the wake of recent cases of police violence in the United States, a national conversation has started about the use of body cameras.
A new social category recently emerged on the security and development landscape: the “fragile city”. This article debates the term and challenges to improve their autonomy.
Article that debates the violence and fragility of cities of developing countries.
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