Tag: building peace

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 measures – two executive orders imposing sanctions on social-media networks WeChat and TikTok, and another to set up a “clean network” program – that, come mid-September, would prohibit any U.S. citizen or company from conducting business with those apps’ Chinese parent companies, Tencent and ByteDance respectively.

13 de August de 2020

Forecasting the Dividends of Conflict Prevention from 2020-2030

This study considers the trajectories of armed conflict in a ‘business-as-usual’ scenario between 2020-2030.

22 de July de 2020

Globale Trends Analysen

Adriana Erthal Abdenur, coordinator for International Peace and Security at Igarapé, has published the article “Making Conflict Prevention a Concrete Reality at the UN” in the peer-reviewed policy journal Global Trends Analysis, hosted by the German think tank SEF.

10 de January de 2020

Climate and Security in latin America and the Caribbean

The articles in this volume explore how climate contributes to insecurity in the LAC region. They resulted from a partnership between the Igarapé Institute and the Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS), both in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the support of the German Embassy in Brasília.

10 de December de 2019

Status and the Rise of Brazil

Researcher Eduarda Hamann contributed with a chapter entitled “Brazil’s Evolving ‘Balancing Act’ on the Use of Force in Multilateral Operations: From Robust Peacekeeping to ‘Responsibility While Protecting’”.

12 de November de 2019

Navigating the Ripple Effects: Brazil-China Relations in Light of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

This paper draws on official documents and statistics to analyze how the BRI affects Brazil´s relations with China along three dimensions: the economic, strategic, and political spheres. I argue that, despite the geographic distances separating Brazil from the Belt and Road Initiative, the initiative has concrete repercussions for Brazil’s bilateral and multilateral dealings with China through a ripple effect emerging out of the BRI’s spatial configuration.

17 de October de 2019

Cities are easy prey for cybercriminals. Here’s how they can fight back

Make no mistake: the world is in the early stages of a techno-war against city governments and urban infrastructure. And while some cities have bolstered their capabilities to patch their vulnerabilities, they are entirely unprepared for the scale of cyberthreats that are coming.

30 de September de 2019

My Year in Africa: Why This Brazilian Woman Peacekeeper Wants to Return

n one of the world’s most fragile and violent settings, Lieut. Comdr. Marcia Braga, a 45-year-old Brazilian naval officer, arrived in April 2018 as the third military gender adviser for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic.

11 de September de 2019

Financing the UN: Development System Time for Hard Choices

Igarapé’s Peace and Security Coordinator, Adriana Abdenur, contributed with the section “The Crisis of Multilateralism, Viewed From the Global South”

6 de September de 2019

Organized crime in the Amazon: Illegal mining hotspots

A new form of organized crime has recently been emerging in the Amazon: illegal mining. Miners fell trees, use high-grade explosives to oblast soils and dredge riverbeds.

29 de July de 2019

‘Good enough’ global cooperation is key to our survival

The future feels more threatening and ominous than ever. The sense of doom and gloom is deepening, not least in the West.

17 de July de 2019

What to expect from the new champions

Agenda 2030 is in trouble. The rare political consensus that led to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) four years ago has become fractured.

8 de July de 2019

Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order

Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order sheds light on the place of “Africa Agency” in the competitive and changing global system

9 de May de 2019

Assessing the effectiveness of the United Nations Mission in the DRC / MONUC – MONUSCO

By adopting the EPON’s methodology framework, the report has evaluated the effectiveness of the UN peacekeeping efforts in the DRC across eight critical dimensions. A number of significant strategic and operational impacts and three constraints that have undermined UN efforts have also been identified.

26 de April de 2019

BBC World News

Robert Muggah, diretor de pesquisa do Igarapé, falou à BBC sobre mudanças climáticas e sua influência na violência.

2 de April de 2019

World Governance Forum

Apresentação do diretor de pesquisa do Instituto Igarapé, Robert Muggah, no World Governance Forum.

2 de April de 2019

US pulls diplomats from its embassy in Caracas, and tensions between Venezuela and Brazil escalate

The United States will withdraw all remaining staff from its embassy in Venezuela, according to a late-night March 11 announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Twitter, who cited the “deterioriating situation” there.

13 de March de 2019

Fighting Climate Change Means Fighting Organized Crime

As the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink, the Amazon is a key front in the fight against climate change

13 de March de 2019

How climate change is fueling extremism

Climate change is already triggering devastating weather events across the planet, including prolonged droughts, flash floods and wildfires.

8 de March de 2019

Brazil and Venezuela clash over migrants, humanitarian aid and closed borders

Venezuela’s borders are now dangerous flashpoints in a tense showdown between President Nicolas Maduro and Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaidó.

8 de March de 2019

A new mega railway across Latin America

This idea has gained momentum as Peru, Bolivia and Brazil join forces to build a corridor that would stretch over 3,800 km from the port of Santos, in Brazil, across Bolivia to the port of Ilo, in Peru.

9 de November de 2018

Beyond Trump’s separation of migrant families lies a real border crisis that is proving bigger than the presidency

Did President Trump manufacture a border crisis where none existed?

25 de June de 2018

Preparing Civilian Experts to work in Vulnerable Places

This brief examines Brazil’s potential for preparing civilian experts to work in unstable contexts.

8 de September de 2016

Promover Gênero e Consolidar a Paz: A Experiência Brasileira

[In Portuguese] This article explores Brazil’s advances and shortcomings in protection activities and technical cooperation projects focused on preventing sexual violence.

1 de September de 2014

Brazilian Civilian Capacity and the UN System Opportunities and Challenges

(In Portuguese) SN-12: This strategic note considers the state of Brazilian engagement with the UN peace

5 de January de 2014

Implementing the responsabilty to protect: new directions for international peace and security?

[In Portuguese] 12 papers on Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Responsibility While Protecting (RwP).

18 de March de 2013

The Economic Costs of Violent Crime in Urban Haiti

Crime and victimization are amongst the most pressing concerns cited by Haitian citizens today. Surveys indicate that they are increasingly common in urban centers.

1 de July de 2012