Brazil’s contribution to United Nations (UN) missions started exactly 70 years ago, when Brazilian military officers and diplomats participated in the first multinational team authorised by the Organisation to act in the Balkans in October 1947. About 10 years later, the first UN mission with
Georeferencing helps reveal the scale of impact from natural disasters and dam building Dom Phillips, for The Guardian At least 7.7 million Brazilians, or one every minute, have been forced to leave their homes since 2000, a pioneering study has found. Of those, 6.4
La información y el análisis son la única manera de evidenciar los verdaderos cambios en violencia.
No Dia Internacional da Paz, organizações ligadas à consolidação da paz emitem declaração conjunta.
The sense of unease on many Latin American city streets is palpable. Fear and uncertainty affect people’s day-to-day decisions — whether to take public transport, where to buy groceries, when to go out at night.
Brazil is increasingly becoming a less stable country and has been ranked one of the most worsened countries over the past year by the 2017 Fragile States Index report from the Fund for Peace.
Strategic Note about a relatively new phenomenon in international relations: since the nineties, there has been an increasing number of civilian experts who work in highly unstable contexts, once restricted to the military.
March, 2017 This report resumes the event which examined the extent to which the country has incorporated or could incorporate key recommendations of the HIPPO report across its own policies, programs, and activities, reinforcing its role as an active player of the international peace and
Esta Nota Estratégica tem como objetivo destacar boas práticas na implementação de diferentes planos nacionais de ação (PNA’s).
Drawing on interviews with Brazilian diplomats and official documents, this paper examines the context, key principles, and main mechanisms of Brazilian peacebuilding.
Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Rob Muggah contributed to the annual compilation of global peace operations review of the Center on International Cooperation
[Em Espanhol] Esta publicación contiene textos sobre el proceso de paz en Colombia – y un prólogo escrito después de la victoria del “No” en el referéndum celebrado por la población de Colombia.
Report of an informal event gathering Brazil and UK on current and future perspectives on United Nations (UN) peacekeeping.
This brief examines Brazil’s potential for preparing civilian experts to work in unstable contexts.
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.
This Strategic Note seeks to identify key thematic elements in Brazil’s long history of peacekeeping missions, from the first such effort in 1947 through present-day operations around the world.
Igarapé Institute assembled governments and civil society groups from across Latin America to identify priorities and capacities to deliver on the evolving international peace and security agenda.
To contribute to Brazil’s National Action Plan (PNA), the Igarapé Institute releases this Strategic Article highlighting lessons learned by countries that have previously developed national plans of this kind.
Brazil would do well to support a comprehensive approach to stability and reconstruction in Syria as advocated by the so-called Vienna Process since October 2015.
This Strategic Note presents the results of a national survey of 1,766 Haitian adults conducted in January, 2016; they were asked about their participation in voting, barriers to participating in the voting process, their choice for president, and about related subjects.
An Igarapé Institute research team administered household surveys in 135 polling stations before and after the election to assess attitudes about the electoral process; this publication gathers it’s results.
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?
This Strategic Paper studies the contradiction between high levels of violence in Latin America and the low priority given to achieve Susteinable Development Objective 16.
[In Portuguese] 2015 marks United Nations 70th birthday. With this, the existing debates about the adequacy of UN system to 21st century reality and needs gain strength.
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.
[In Portuguese] Collection of articles on the main challenges and development opportunities in Haiti.
[In Portuguese] This article explores Brazil’s advances and shortcomings in protection activities and technical cooperation projects focused on preventing sexual violence.
Discovered in Tanzania and diagnosed in America for the first time in december 2013, the Chikungunya virus has been spreading more and more quickly in Haiti.
An interactive, web-based visualization that captures interlocking networks related to the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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