With 100% of the economy being dependent on nature, the way we choose to define our economies going forward will tip the scales towards either an equitable nature-positive future, or an irreversible nature-negative one – with devastating impacts for people and the planet. The ‘bioeconomy’
This study on Bolivia, in partnership with InSight Crime, provides a comprehensive overview of the complex network of actors, including state and non-state entities, and the relationships that perpetuate environmental crime in the Bolivian Amazon. It seeks to understand the contemporary dynamics of environmental crimes
Globalization is the most progressive force in the history of humankind.
The future feels more threatening and ominous than ever. The sense of doom and gloom is deepening, not least in the West.
The book Researching South-South Development Cooperation: The Politics of Knowledge Production, edited by Emma Mawdsley, Elsje Fourie and Wiebe Nauta, contains a chapter by Igarapé’s International Peace and Security Coordinator, Adriana Erthal Abdenur.
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.
Global cooperation is at a crossroads. Many of the world’s biggest challenges are not a result of disagreements about how to cooperate, but a profound loss of direction about why to cooperate in the first place.
The stench of burning tires is hard to escape. Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is again littered with smoldering barricades.
This volume is the culmination of a special Inter-American Dialogue project. Unlike other Dialogue publications, its essays attempt to stand back
and take a broad view of Latin America.
Are the Sustainable Development Goals in danger of collapsing under the weight of their own lofty ambitions?
Carta Capital (original in portuguese) – Part of Brazil’s diplomatic strength is in the upward trend of participation in international missions
This briefing note is intended to assist the Inter-Agency and Experts Group (IAEG) on SDG indicators in developing an indicator to track the number of “conflictrelated deaths per 100,000 people”.
Feiras de armamentos, treinamento militar, aéreo e naval: na África, a influência do Brasil vai muito além dos seis países de língua portuguesa
This briefing examines Brazil’s position on the inclusion of peace within the post-2015 development agenda and also engages with some of the arguments that Brazil has made to date.
[In Portuguese] In a collective statement, experts ask for the Brazilian government to work with a universal and inclusive agenda that has at its center, security and development of the poorest accordindg to Susteinable Development Objectives (SDO).
This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations.
A note about how peacekeeping operations contribute to the durability of negative and positive peace and how it shapes organized violence.
[In Portuguese] 12 papers on Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Responsibility While Protecting (RwP).
[In Portuguese] Article about new opportunities for Brazil internacional insertion in pos-conflict contexts.
This report considers the extent to which disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and related concepts are accounted for in peace processes and peace agreements.
Government officials estimate tens of thousands more were made homeless after Haiti hurricane season in 2010.
This article debates Brazil’s role in peacebuilding, reflecting on it’s new position as a ascendant power.
[In Portuguese] The “Responsability to Protect” was officially inserted in UN on 2005. One of it’s main contributions is to put and end to some discussions about the material limits of military intervention for humanitarian purpose.
[In English and French] This chapter demonstrates how Brazil has increasingly aligned its foreign policy with a ‘South–South Cooperation’ (SSC) agenda as a means of achieving these parallel objectives.
This short report features an array of tried and tested innovations from Brazil that could have applicability for Haiti as it regains its footing after the devastating January 2010 earthquake.
This concept note parses out emerging “southern-effect” and some of its wider implications for engagement with fragile states in the twenty first century.
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