The development of the Case study: Crime prediction for more agile policing in cities has been researched and written by Katherine Aguirre (Igarape Institute), Emile Badran (Igarape Institute) and Robert Muggah (Igarape Institute) and has been edited and revised by Okan Geray (Smart Dubai Office).
Igarapé’s Peace and Security Coordinator, Adriana Abdenur, contributed with the section “The Crisis of Multilateralism, Viewed From the Global South”
Robert Muggah and Renata Giannini contributed with a section for this report.
Coordinator of Igarapé’s international security division, Adriana Erthal Abdenur and researchers Lycia Brasil, Ana Paula Pellegrino, and Carol Viviana Porto launched the publication, Los delitos ambientales en la Cuenca del Amazonas: el rol del crimen organizado en la minería, in which they discuss the connections between environmental crimes and criminal organizations, especially regarding illegal mining.
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.
Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order sheds light on the place of “Africa Agency” in the competitive and changing global system
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.
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.
There are signs of growing resistance to repressive approaches to crime prevention—so-called mano dura—in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Robert Muggah on city mayors and how they define our collective fates
Crime and violence are a common threat to Latin America and the Caribbean, but their manifestations vary across countries, cities, and neighborhoods.
By merging the biological, physical and digital worlds, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming the way people live. The
This book is our sixth Small Wars Journal–El Centro anthology, covering writings published between 2016 and 2017.
ATT Monitor is a project of Control Arms. The project was launched in January 2015 with the support of the governments of Austria, Australia, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, and Trinidad and Tobago.
As cities get smarter, they are becoming more livable and more responsive—and today we are seeing only a preview of what technology could eventually do in the urban environment.
Three years into the 2030 Agenda it is already apparent that those living in fragile contexts are the furthest behind. Not all forms of fragility make it to the public’s eye: fragility is an intricate beast, sometimes exposed, often lurking underneath, but always holding progress back.
The focus of this report is on the intended and unintended consequences of mano dura in Latin America, particularly as they relate to youth. The assessment draws on available evidence that, albeit patchy, offers a state of the art overview of the real costs and
Brazil is not facing so much a conventional “armed conflict” as a systemic crisis of public security. Its high levels of insecurity are not due to a single cause but rather a combination of individual, household and societal factors; concentrated disadvantage and fragmented families together
February, 2018 Current drug policy too often has a negative impact on communities and runs counter to efforts to ameliorate poverty through sustainable development. However, this is often not captured by the metrics used to measure the impact of drug policy. One way to improve
This discussion paper takes a look at some of the key challenges facing global policymakers as they seek to craft a modern-day migration policy which meets some of the most compelling security concerns while also tackling many countries’ longer-term need for migrants.
Data-Driven Cities: 20 Stories of Innovation seeks to highlight how cities have achieved the use of data to drive their development.
This article considers the state of insecurity in Rio de Janeiro, highlighting official trends in crime prevalence and the dynamics of criminal governance.
The Safe Cities Index 2017 is a report from The Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by NEC.
This Report is an output of Know Violence in Childhood – an independent global learning initiative. The Initiative makes the case for ending violence in childhood across the world.
Multilateral development agencies have played a highly important role in the prevention and reduction of the violence in Latin America, particularly in the shift from a “public security” approach focussed on maintaining public order to a “citizen security” one of prevention and strengthening institutions.
The present publication is a Synthesis of the Spotlight Report of the Civil Society Working Group for the 2030 Agenda – GTSC A2030 – and was built collaboratively with the participation of various organizations focusing on the seven goals that will be the theme of the upcoming edition of the Forum.
Pesquisadores e especialistas falam do tema sob os mais variados espectros da questão humanitária, do deslocamento e migrações e da violência na região.
Latin American and Caribbean societies are among the most violent on earth. The problem appears to be worsening. Why? There is not one, but several explanations accounting for the steady increases in crime and victimisation across the region. In addition to jarring inequality and chronic impunity,
Drawing on interviews with Brazilian diplomats and official documents, this paper examines the context, key principles, and main mechanisms of Brazilian peacebuilding.
Robert Muggah and other independent thinkers talk about global governance
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