The Brazilian Amazon is rife with illegal gold mining operations, with 321 identified points of illegal, active and inactive mines arranged in the 9 states that comprise the Brazilian Amazon Basin. This devastation has a price — according to Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutors Office, 1kg
Ações deliberadas para fechar o espaço cívico são cada vez mais comuns no Brasil
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.
Read the latest Igarape Institute article, in which Robert Muggah and Peter Schmidt analyze these complex relationships.
The Amazon is reaching a point that may be irreversible, in which its biome, and with it the global climate, will suffer irreparable damage, negatively impacting not only local communities, but also entire regions and industries. In this article, the Igarapé Institute analyzes challenges around
A new paper from the Igarape Institute – Environmental Crime in the Amazon Basin: a Typology for Research, Policy and Action – introduces a typology to help better understand the scope and scale of the problem and its extensive social and environmental impacts.
The articles in this volume explore how climate contributes to insecurity in the LAC region. They resulted from a partnership between the Igarapé Institute and the Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS), both in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the support of the German Embassy in Brasília.
Cities are where the future happens first.
The objective of this study is to offer a data-driven review of the growth, trends, and the principle reasons behind the rapid expansion of the prison population in the region during the past two decades.
Après un demi-siècle de déclin, la fréquence et la sévérité des conflits armés ont commencé à augmenter à nouveau en 2010.
This study explores the institutionalization of the cybersecurity agenda in Brazil and seeks to identify opportunities for multi-stakeholder cooperation.
Executive Summary Conflict prevention has a long history within the context of the international peace and security architecture. In recent years, there has been a push to vitalize the idea. The new UN Secretary General has called for the restoration of conflict prevention to
Los enfoques que prometen ser “duros contra el delito” son atractivos para la opinión pública. Líderes autoritarios y populistas suelen usarlos, ya que suenan “moralmente justos” y orientados a la acción.
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.
Many Latin American countries, states and cities are facing a chronic public security crisis.
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
This article presents an analysis of the content of the National Plan of Action (NAP) on women, peace and security, a document adopted by Brazil on March 8, 2017, in response to United Nations calls for its member states to promote national strategies for implementation
The publication analyzes the increase in the child and youth homicides between 1980 and 2014 in Brazil.
This policy brief from the Igarapé Institute presents the historical roots and immediate causes of the conflict in the Central African Republic in order to provide support to international, national and local actors who may play a relevant role in conflict prevention in the country and, more broadly, in the central region of the continent.
This publication analyzes Cuba’s drug policy in the Twenty First Century: its challenges for an update and also its historical backgrounds.
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.
June, 2017 On 4 October 2016 Haiti was struck by a category five hurricane, the strongest such storm in over 50 years. Hundreds were killed and over 1.4 million made homeless. A household survey of 2,792 households was undertaken between 11-21 October 2016. Repeat surveys
April, 2017 Through interviews and research on primary and secondary data, the Strategic Article outlines a comprehensive history of the process of drafting, voting, and regulating the Marco Civil da Internet (Digital Bill of Rights), and an analysis of the perspective of consolidation or retreat
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).
This paper aims at examining how francophone Africa presently perceives Brazil’s ambitions in light of the current and past economic, political and diplomatic relationships.
[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.
This Strategic Paper aims to discuss principles and practices for implementing body cameras for law enforcement in order to achieve better effectiveness.
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