Robert Muggah on city mayors and how they define our collective fates
Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities
The Devasting Consequences of Urban Violence – and a bold new plan for peace in the streets
In order to help address escalating violence, UN Environment has launched the UN Initiative for Environmental Defenders. This brief analyses the initiative and looks into how member states can support peace by engaging in environmental diplomacy, with a focus on Brazil.
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.
Published 35 years after Palgrave Macmillan’s landmark International Political Economy (IPE) series was first founded, this Handbook captures the state of the art of contemporary IPE.
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.
Many of Africa’s armed conflicts constitute wicked problems. Across parts of the continent, organized violence is fusing political, criminal and extremist motives, explicitly targeting civilians and involving multiple armed groups.
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.
Today, more than 60 percent of all refugees and 80 percent of all internally displaced persons are living in urban areas. While cities are periodically overwhelmed by sudden mass influxes of forced migrants
The increase in the accessibility of firearms and ammunition represents a key factor of destabilization in many countries. It is also commonly associated with an escalation in intensity and organization of collective and interpersonal violence.
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
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
Our research director, Rob Muggah, contributed to this publication of the World Economic Forum on the use of public-private partnerships in the delivery of the New Urban Agenda.
Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Rob Muggah contributed to the annual compilation of global peace operations review of the Center on International Cooperation
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