Violence has always been one of humanity’s most serious global challenges. This is because for most of history, we were natural born killers. Hundreds of millions of men, women and children have been killed or maimed by armed conflict, crime, extremism and sexual and gender-based violence.
Brazil is the world’s murder capital. No other country even comes close. That is why it was big news when the country’s minister of justice recently announced that homicide rates fell by over 20 percent in 2019 compared to the same period last year.
The absolute number, prevalence and lethality of terrorist incidents has decreased significantly around the world since its peak in 2014.
The objective of this study is to offer a data-driven review of the growth, trends, and the principle reasons behind the rapid expansion of the prison population in the region during the past two decades.
Brazilians have an uneasy but enduring co-existence with homicide. Over 1,060,000 of them have been murdered since 2000.
Gun makers and military industry companies from all over the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro for Latin America’s largest defense and security fair Tuesday, hoping to benefit from Brazil’s new far-right administration and President Jair Bolsonaro’s vow to loosen gun laws.
Brazil has an uneasy co-existence with homicide. At least 1,060,000 Brazilians have been murdered since 2000.
The stench of burning tires is hard to escape. Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is again littered with smoldering barricades.
in a country plagued by rising levels of violent crime, the sentiment is widely popular with voters — and reflected in government policy
Global Post – A considerable proportion of illegally acquired firearms in Mexico were originally sold by federally licensed dealers in the US
The disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of former combatants is a mainstay of the contemporary post-war peace agenda
India has reached the second largest number of homicides in the world, which policies should be applied in order to reverse these statistics?
Americas Quarterly – Economic growth alone won’t stem violent crime. But the right policies – and leadership – can make a difference
TeleSURtv – Brazil is suffering from an epidemic of gun violence, with more than 4,000 people killed this year in the state of Rio de Janeiro
BID – A vast array of public and private policies and programs are underway. Most of them can be categorized as “citizen security” interventions
The Huffington Post – Rio de Janeiro´s famously laid-back residents are in a state of panic. A string of high profile knifings in well-heeled areas of the city are putting Cariocas on edge.
The sheer pace and scale of urbanization is precipitating one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in human history. More than half of the world’s population now resides in cities
This report considers how citizen security have been operationalised across Latin America, assembling more than 1,300 citizen interventions across the region since the late 1990s.
This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations.
Igarapé Institute releases new report with IPI and USAID on using information communication technologies to prevent violence in Latin America.
This Article debates new ways to face the violence problem cause by the drug traffic in Central America and Caribe.
This report aims to generate more understanding of what works and what does not when it comes to armed violence reduction and prevention (AVRP), to stimulate further evaluation and to contribute to more effective and efficient policies and programmes.
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