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Publications
This policy brief revisits the country’s evolving role and strategic use of peacekeeping.
This publication gathers the results of surveys done in partnership with World Vision in 12 cities across...
Fifty-seven researchers from public safety sign this manifesto against the Bill 3722/12.
September, 2016
This article aims to identify the main impacts of drug law enforcement on policing....
This brief examines Brazil’s potential for preparing civilian experts to work in unstable contexts.
This publication presents strategies that help enhance resilience in cities experiencing fragility.
This book offers some fact based approaches to building sustainable peace.
This Strategic Note identifies key thematic features of Brazil’s long history of United Nations operations,...
This Homicide Dispatch critically examines the relationships between organized crime and lethal viol...
The following report examines ways that companies can mitigate the risks of investing in fragile set...
This research report examines the impact of criminal deportation to Honduras on public safety in Can...
This book shines a light on digital protest and cyber crime from Argentina, Brazil and Colombia to El...
This timely report comes at a decisive moment in history where we can reshape urban environments and...
This article considers the digital ecosystem linking gangs in San Diego, Tijuana and more widely across...
This text analyzes Brazil's internal issues on justice and security agendas.
What Explains Criminal Violence in Mexico City? A Test of Two Theories of Crime
There are...
Brazil would do well to support a comprehensive approach to stability and reconstruction in Syria as...
This Homicide Dispatch explores regional variations of homicide rates, identifying the countries that...
Stabilisation, as a concept and set of practices, has proliferated over the past two decades and is now...
The disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of former combatants is a mainstay of the contemporary...
India has reached the second largest number of homicides in the world, which policies should be applied...
The Cape Town Dialogue included a number of in-depth discussions about crime and violence prevention...
This briefing note is intended to assist the Inter-Agency and Experts Group (IAEG) on SDG indicators...
[In Spanish] Study that examines the opportunities for disarmament of the FARC, drawing on evidence from...
This Dispatch offers several practical recommendations to reduce homicidal violence by 50% in the next...
After more than a century of steady city expansion in northern countries, the direction of twenty-first...
This briefing examines Brazil’s position on the inclusion of peace within the post-2015 development agenda...
Deconstructing the fragile city: exploring insecurity, violence and resilience
An emerging social category...
Humanitarian agencies are questioning when and how to engage with violent urban settings. This article...
The special collection - Citizen Security Dialogues: Dispatches from Mexico - features original research...
The article introduces a basic typology to conceptualize various types of internal displacement in B...
15/04/2014
Violent disorder in Ciudad Juarez: a spatial analysis of homicide
This article considers the...
[In Portuguese] In a collective statement, experts ask for the Brazilian government to work with a universal...
This article considers the extent to which specific demographic and socioeconomic factors correlate with...
An interactive, web-based visualization that captures interlocking networks related to the M23 rebel...
This report considers how changes under way in Latin America drug policy are challenging the foundations...
[In portuguese] This paper analyzes the opportunities for greater participation of Brazilian police officers...
This report considers how citizen security have been operationalised across Latin America, assembling...
Small arms and light weapons availability should be re-evaluated as a complex social phenomenon involving...
Youth violence is reaching epidemic levels in some parts of Latin America
A study about the consequences of current drug policy and alternative approaches for harm reduction and...
This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international rel...
A new social category recently emerged on the security and development landscape: the "fragile city"....
A note about how peacekeeping operations contribute to the durability of negative and positive peace...
Igarapé Institute releases new report with IPI and USAID on using information communication technologies...
La seguridad ciudadana en América Latina se encuentra en una encrucijada.
This new study estimates the volume and value of arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico.
This article debates the BRICS participation in a wider cooperation scenario.
[In Portuguese] Article about new opportunities for Brazil internacional insertion in pos-conflict c...
This report considers the extent to which disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and related...