Category: Op-eds

Digital Security in the Media

Brazil struggles with effective cyber-crime response

The risk of cyber crime is growing in Brazil amid a debate over the balance between security and privacy. Robert Muggah and Nathan B. Thompson analyse the nature of the threat and consider the response of the state in a climate of significant economic and political uncertainty

International

Conflict prevention is the surest path to peace

Today’s armed conflicts also make conflict prevention more challenging. This is because armed conflict and terrorism are transforming. Risks of conflict are converging

International

Brazil Can Lead the Way on Managing the World’s Refugee Crisis

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

International

Conflict prevention is back in vogue, and not a moment too soon

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

Digital Security in the Media

How Brazil Could Become a Regional Leader on Data Protection

A bill passed yesterday by Brazil’s Lower House marks a major step forward in the push for privacy. 30/05/2018   The world is awash in data. Each minute, people around the globe take 47,000 Uber trips, write 456,000 tweets, conduct 3.6 million Google searches and

International

The Tricky Business of Counting the Costs of Armed Conflict in Cities

By Robert Muggah 24/05/2018 Originally published on the Small Wars Journal   Paraphrasing the Greek dramatist Aeschylus, in war, terrorism and crime, truth is the first casualty. While a proper accounting of the human toll of organized violence is critical to achieving justice and stability,

International

Rio de Janeiro’s militia on the rise (again)

22/05/2018 Ana Paula Pellegrino, Dandara Tinoco, Renata Giannini, and Robert Muggah Originally published on the Open Democracy               In mid-May 2008, a journalist, photographer and driver were kidnapped and tortured in Batan, a favela in Rio de Janeiro’s west zone. When

Digital Security in the Media

Digital safety in the world’s most dangerous war zone

27/04/2018 By Deirdre Collings and Robert Muggah Originally published on iPolitics In war-torn Syria, the contents of one’s phone mean the difference between life and death. “My phone is my lifeline,” Umm Hassan told us, one of the more than 150,000 Syrian citizens fleeing the destruction

International

Brazil’s Critical Infrastructure Faces a Growing Risk of Cyberattacks

Most of the world’s critical infrastructure—nuclear plants, electrical transmission systems, water treatment plants, etc.—is managed by internet-connected hardware and software that makes them vulnerable to cyberattacks. 10/04/2018 By Robert Muggah and Nathan B. Thompson Originally published on the Council on Foreign Relations website   For almost twenty-four hours,

Op-eds

Is Liberal Democracy in Retreat?

Although democracy has spread from one country to more than 100 countries in the space of two centuries, it has also suffered setbacks along the way, and continues to face resistance to this day. Democracy, after all, is not inevitable, and yet it remains the

Op-eds

Violent crime in São Paulo has dropped dramatically. Is this why?

13/03/2018 Originally published on the World Economic Forum website Latin America’s largest city, São Paulo, was once among the region’s most violent. But the bustling metropolis of over 12 million Paulistanos has experienced a remarkable decline in homicide. The murder rate dropped from a high

International

Military intervention won’t solve the violence in Rio de Janeiro

There is a widespread perception that violence in Rio de Janeiro is spinning out of control. During last month’s Carnival celebrations, disturbing clips of tourists getting assaulted and gunfire erupting between rival drug gangs were broadcast repeatedly on television. Then President Michel Temer signed an extraordinary

Op-eds

Webcraft and the global liberal order

February, 2018 The Globe and Mail   Anne-Marie Slaughter is an academic, foreign-policy analyst, author, former director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department and current president and CEO of New America. As statecraft proves less and less able to solve or even tackle

Op-eds

Cinco hechos que son necesarios para entender el nuevo orden global

  Febrero, 2018 World Economic Forum   En la reunión del Foro Económico Mundial en Davos la semana pasada, se abordaron al menos tres versiones diferentes sobre el futuro orden mundial. Una de ellos fue la difundida por un combativo Donald Trump, que pedía una retirada estadounidense a

Op-eds

Brazil at the Liberal Crossroads

February, 2018 Project Syndicate   Since the end of World War II, Latin America has maintained a lukewarm stance toward the US-dominated liberal world order, and Brazil is no exception. But at the end of the day, Brazil has much more in common with the

Op-eds

It’s time to get used to a new global order with China and the U.S. at its centre

iPolitics Fevereiro, 2018 Three competing versions of the future world order clashed at the World Economic Forum’s gathering in Davos last week. There was the one pushed by a feisty Donald Trump calling for economic nationalism and his country’s retreat from the current order. Another was advanced by Chinese

International

5 facts you need to understand the new global order

We are fixated to the forward march of democracies and the underlying principles on which they are based, yet we must learn to compromise and accommodate multiple value systems.

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