This Strategic Note identifies key thematic features of Brazil’s long history of United Nations operations, from the first one, in 1947, through present-day operations around the world.
The following report examines ways that companies can mitigate the risks of investing in fragile settings.
This research report examines the impact of criminal deportation to Honduras on public safety in Canada.
This book shines a light on digital protest and cyber crime from Argentina, Brazil and Colombia to El Salvador and Mexico.
This timely report comes at a decisive moment in history where we can reshape urban environments and health systems.
This article considers the digital ecosystem linking gangs in San Diego, Tijuana and more widely across Mexico and other parts of Latin America.
This text analyzes Brazil’s internal issues on justice and security agendas.
What Explains Criminal Violence in Mexico City? A Test of Two Theories of Crime There are competing theories of what drives crime in cities and neighbourhoods. Two widely cited theoretical approaches focused on social disorganization and institutional anomie propose different explanations for the
Stabilisation, as a concept and set of practices, has proliferated over the past two decades and is now implicitly integrated into a range of global frameworks
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?
The Cape Town Dialogue included a number of in-depth discussions about crime and violence prevention in urban communities.
After more than a century of steady city expansion in northern countries, the direction of twenty-first century population growth is shifting southwards. Over the next five decades, Africans, Arabs, and Asians will migrate in unprecedented numbers to cities, especially to their slums. Many of these
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.
Deconstructing the fragile city: exploring insecurity, violence and resilience An emerging social category – the fragile city – can be described as a discrete metropolitan unit whose governance arrangements exhibit a declining ability and/or willingness to deliver on the social contract. Fragility is thus no
Humanitarian agencies are questioning when and how to engage with violent urban settings. This article presents possible ways to solve this question.
The special collection – Citizen Security Dialogues: Dispatches from Mexico – features original research from Mexico’s leading security and justice experts.
The article introduces a basic typology to conceptualize various types of internal displacement in Brazil.
15/04/2014 Violent disorder in Ciudad Juarez: a spatial analysis of homicide This article considers the extent to which specific demographic and socioeconomic factors correlate with homicidal violence in the context of Mexico’s “war” on organized crime. We draw on Ciudad Juarez as a case study
[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 article considers the extent to which specific demographic and socioeconomic factors correlate with homicidal violence in the context of Mexico’s “war” on organized crime.
An interactive, web-based visualization that captures interlocking networks related to the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This report considers how changes under way in Latin America drug policy are challenging the foundations of the repressive regime – specially the “war on drugs”.
[In portuguese] This paper analyzes the opportunities for greater participation of Brazilian police officers in United Nations peace operations.
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.
Small arms and light weapons availability should be re-evaluated as a complex social phenomenon involving dynamic supply and demand dimensions. This article debates this subject.
Youth violence is reaching epidemic levels in some parts of Latin America
A study about the consequences of current drug policy and alternative approaches for harm reduction and violence decrease.
This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations.
A new social category recently emerged on the security and development landscape: the “fragile city”. This article debates the term and challenges to improve their autonomy.
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