Tourism is consider fundamental for Haiti’s economy reconstruction, which may seem a paradox in a poor and prone to disasters country.
A note about how peacekeeping operations contribute to the durability of negative and positive peace and how it shapes organized violence.
Igarapé Institute releases new report with IPI and USAID on using information communication technologies to prevent violence in Latin America.
[In Portuguese] 12 papers on Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Responsibility While Protecting (RwP).
This new study estimates the volume and value of arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico.
[In Portuguese] In today’s world, quintessentially multipolar, more and more actors are involving themselves in the elaboration of the global development agenda.
[In Portuguese] A report about the brazilian hability to use their specialists in international missions.
[In Portuguese] Article about new opportunities for Brazil internacional insertion in pos-conflict contexts.
This report considers the extent to which disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and related concepts are accounted for in peace processes and peace agreements.
This article debates Brazil’s role in peacebuilding, reflecting on it’s new position as a ascendant power.
[In Portuguese] Brief survey of Brazil’s cooperation, emphasizing the recent background, juridic-institutional difficulties and operational mechanisms used by cooperation agents.
Brazil has accumulated experience in deploying civilian professionals to multilateral missions. These contributions, however, fall short of what the UN requires.
Article on Brazil’s position on the protection of civilians (PoC), “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) and the new approach “Responsibility While Protecting” (RwP).
[In Portuguese] The “Responsability to Protect” was officially inserted in UN on 2005. One of it’s main contributions is to put and end to some discussions about the material limits of military intervention for humanitarian purpose.
Crime and victimization are amongst the most pressing concerns cited by Haitian citizens today. Surveys indicate that they are increasingly common in urban centers.
[In Portuguese] This report highlights mechanisms developed by 10 countries to identify, prepare and employ civilian specialists over the last 15 years.
The Igarapé Institute coordinated the first ever seminar on Brazilian civilian capacities for peace support operations in February 2012.
[In English and French] This chapter demonstrates how Brazil has increasingly aligned its foreign policy with a ‘South–South Cooperation’ (SSC) agenda as a means of achieving these parallel objectives.
Random household surveys conducted on a monthly basis between August 2011 and February 2012 indicate that violent crime is increasingly common in Haiti.
This report aims to generate more understanding of what works and what does not when it comes to armed violence reduction and prevention (AVRP), to stimulate further evaluation and to contribute to more effective and efficient policies and programmes.
Report on the seminar ‘Expanding the Civilian Role in Peace Operations: Assessing Progress and Addressing Gaps’, held on 18–19 April 2011 in Rio de Janeiro.
This short report features an array of tried and tested innovations from Brazil that could have applicability for Haiti as it regains its footing after the devastating January 2010 earthquake.
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