[In spanish] El Foro Económico Mundial, publicó resultados del estudio realizado por expertos del Consejo del Futuro Global dónde dieron su visión de cómo será el mundo en el año 2030.
Watch Igarapé Institute research director Robert Muggah keynote presentation in Smart City Expo World Congress 2017.
Data-Driven Cities: 20 Stories of Innovation seeks to highlight how cities have achieved the use of data to drive their development.
WEF Forum November, 2017 Friday´s savage attack in Egypt is a reminder that the vast majority of terrorist-related killings occur in less well known cities far from the media glare. To be sure, the brutal murder of 305 practicing Sufis in Bir al-Abed represents a
The world’s cities generate more than 75% of global carbon emissions – it’s time for them to play a more prominent role in fighting climate change.
Expert Robert Muggah describes the most dangerous threats faced by modern cities around the world. From climate change to globalization and urbanization cities must adapt to the new challenges of the 21st century.
November, 2017 Robert Muggah speaks at TED Global NYC. The urban specialist and co-founder of the Igarapé Institute sets out six ways for urban centers to address the global migration crisis, terrorism, and climate change. The TED talk features data from the Earth TimeLapse visualization
The Safe Cities Index 2017 is a report from The Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by NEC.
Robert Muggah is back on TED. In this TED Global NYC, Muggah articulates an ancient but resurging idea: that cities should be not only the center of economic life but also the foundation of our political lives.
Even with the surge in attacks over the past three years, the number of deaths are much lower than then.
OpenDemocracy July, 2017 If the test of successful political leadership could be distilled to a single issue, the fight to safeguard our climate would be a strong candidate. With President Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Change Agreement (COP21), he abdicates a claim to serious leadership.
Financial Times June, 2017 In the EU, the chances of being killed by a terrorist in 2016 were just five times greater than being killed by lightning. The chances of being murdered for some other reason were more than 30 times greater than that of
Devex June, 2017 Brazil is the site of not one, but multiple forced migration crises. Since 2016, thousands of Venezuelans have poured across the border in search of safer ground. Congolese, Mozambican and Syrian refugees are claiming asylum there alongside Haitian survival migrants. Much less visible, however,
The Globe and Mail – ROBERT MUGGAH Published Jun. 17, 2017 The world is buckling under multiple pressures, including climate change, inequality, migration, pandemics and terrorism. Yet, at precisely the moment collective action is most pressing, international co-operation is coming unstuck. Twentieth-century supranational entities such
WEForum June, 2017 The world has suffered an alarming increase in terrorism events over the past five years. Equally dramatic is the spike in terrorism-related fatalities. While the vast majority of terrorist-related killings are concentrated in the Middle East, North Africa and Central and South
06 Jun 2017 Robert MuggahResearch Director, Igarapé Institute The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2016. That means that one
Watch the Flashtalk by Igarapé’s research director Robert Muggah with the writer and member of Igarapé’s board Misha Glenny on cities fragility and resilience. The Flashtalk happened at Chicago Forum on Global Cities, which happened on 7-9 June, 2017, in Chicago, US.
WEForum June, 2017 The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2016. That means that one in every 100 people globally
Earth TimeLapse, an interactive platform created by global security expert Robert Muggah and Carnegie Mellon University researchers, shows those risks in a new light.
[Em Inglês] O foco deste artigo é a necessidade de resiliência das cidades, tendo em vista a urbanização desorganizada que tem se alastrado pelo planeta.
In collaboration with UNDP, the Igarapé Institute has launched a new publication on cities and development
Citiscope – Interview with Robert Muggah, research director at the Igarapé Institute, to find out more about this data tool and how it attempts to measure fragility in cities
World Economic Forum – Plural cities will play a critical role in determining whether humanity survives this century
Cities are the anchors of human civilization. By 2050, roughly three quarters of humanity will live in one
World Economic Forum – The 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington were devastating, including for dozens of countries
Folha de S. Paulo – No país que possui 32 das 50 cidades mais violentas do mundo, é inadmissível que a segurança pública
Ideas TED – Gun violence is a singularly American problem. But there’s a proven solution, says Robert Muggah, that needs support
This report explores the evidence of what works, and what does not, when it comes to promoting citizen security in Latin American and Caribbean cities.
TED Ideas – Cities are the the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization – and they’re where humanity’s struggle for survival will take place
Thomson Reuters Foundation News – Cities are the frontline of twenty first century humanitarianism
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