The US Attorney General claims these separations are justified by the Bible and will deter illegal immigration, though there is no evidence backing either claim. His is a minority position.
There is growing recognition at the UN and among member states that peacekeeping must be made more effective, especially in face of major budget cuts and wavering leadership by traditional actors.
05/06/2018 Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Maiara Folly Originally published on PassBlue RIO DE JANEIRO — Only weeks from the start of the 2018 World Cup, soccer teams of refugees from Mali, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Angola, Burkina Faso and Gambia who had
As warfare spikes, UN peacekeeping is at a breaking point, unable to keep up with relentless demand. 04/06/2018 by Robert Muggah and Adriana Abdenur Originally published on The Hill Times The threat of catastrophic war between great powers is at the highest point since
On July 10, 2017, the President of Guinea Bissau, José Mário Vaz, met politician Domingos Simões Pereira, who had served as Prime Minister from 2014 to August 2015. Although Pereira remained head of the country’s major political party, the African Party for the Independence of
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.
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