The world is facing interconnected and complex global challenges
The world is facing multiple connected, cascading and compounding mega-threats. These challenges range from climate change, pandemic outbreaks and deepening inequality to massive digital vulnerabilities and nuclear proliferation. Yet global cooperation to address these and other issues is in short supply. More than ever, governments
The U.S. military responded less than 48 hours later with an unmanned airstrike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province
After all, they’ve been buying, pilfering and seizing them from ANDSF forces for almost two decades.
Nuclear weapons are without doubt the most indiscriminate and inhumane weapons ever conceived
This map shows how economic power moved from east to west over the course of centuries — and then snapped rapidly back east over the past few decades
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming virtually every aspect of our lives.
Mongabay caught up with Igarapé Institute co-founder Robert Muggah this week to discuss Ecocrime, a new data visualization platform that combines visual storytelling with access to raw data on environmental crime in the Amazon.
Robert Muggah contributed to this report that aims to campaign to halve violence by 2030 with cities around the world.
The Igarape Institute has prepared a series of products on the relationship between climate security and violence in West Africa.
Globalization is the most progressive force in the history of humankind.
As part of this launch, the Igarape Institute is releasing a new report – The Ágora is under attack: a typology for the analysis of the closure of civic space in Brazil and in the world
This article is part of a series in which leading experts reflect on emerging trends for cities seeking to address hate, polarisation and extremism.
JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, is turning to blockchain to ensure the traceability of the tens of thousands of cattle it processes every day in Brazil, following intense pressure from both investors and activists over its environmental record.
At the United Nations, the world’s longest Zoom meeting is underway as presidents and prime ministers meet virtually amidst a pandemic that has killed almost a million people, an economic depression with no modern parallel, and a tide of polarization and division that threatens the social fabric in many countries.
The world’s longest Zoom call is underway at the United Nations General Assembly today.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defended his administration’s record protecting the Amazon rainforest, telling the United Nations’ virtual meeting of global leaders on Tuesday that his country has been wrongly portrayed as an environmental villain. Bolsonaro’s critics were quick to pick apart his claims.
Even before the tumultuous arrival of COVID-19, many parts of the world were suffering from dangerous polarization and division.
Around the world, COVID-19 is accelerating polarization and division.
O OKA oferece informações sobre serviços oferecidos por agências públicas e da sociedade civil em todo o Equador
The U.S.-China dispute just took a dangerous turn. Late last week, the U.S. government issued three separate measures – two executive orders imposing sanctions on social-media networks WeChat and TikTok, and another to set up a “clean network” program – that, come mid-September, would prohibit any U.S. citizen or company from conducting business with those apps’ Chinese parent companies, Tencent and ByteDance respectively.
On July 7, Jair Bolsonaro, president of the world’s second hardest-hit country by COVID-19, announced he had tested positive for coronavirus and had mild symptoms. Shortly afterwards, he removed his mask to show everyone he was ok.
This week, PS talks with Robert Muggah, a co-founder of the SecDev Group and the Igarapé Institute.
As consensus was finally achieved on July 7, a final draft of the UN-75 political declaration has been approved and is expected to be adopted by world leaders on Sept. 21 at United Nations headquarters through virtual means.
This study considers the trajectories of armed conflict in a ‘business-as-usual’ scenario between 2020-2030.
The only surprise about Jair Bolsonaro’s diagnosis for COVID-19 was that it took him so long to test positive.
This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the peace, security, and development nexus from a global perspective, and investigates the interfaces of these issues in a context characterised by many new challenges.
«I can’t breathe!» «Jeg får ikke puste!» George Floyds siste ord er blitt slagordet for en verdensomfattende bevegelse
After a temporary lull brought about by sweeping Coronavirus quarantine measures, violence is increasing in many parts of Latin America
When Sérgio Moro resigned as justice minister on Friday, accusing Jair Bolsonaro of meddling in a police investigation, the former star judge shifted everyone’s attention away from coronavirus — by triggering the gravest political crisis of the Brazilian president’s administration so far.
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