By reducing the number of legal and illegal guns in circulation, amnesties decrease the likelihood of someone getting shot
A ativista de segurança pública Ilona Szabó foi selecionada, junto com mais três brasileiros, para a nova turma de Jovens Líderes Globais pelo FME.
O Globo – “Reduzir significativamente todas as formas de violência e as taxas de mortalidade relacionadas” encabeça o rol de metas a serem alcançadas no período 2016-2030. A hora é já.
A report on Brazil’s security technology “Smart Policing”, an open-source app for monitoring police developed by Igarapé Institute.
Security researcher Robert Muggah turns our attention toward “fragile cities”. He shows us the four big risks we face, and offers a way to change course.
Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro have joined hands in trying out a new policing system. The famous cities are employing the use of mobile cameras to strengthen policing in various districts while improving police accountability and enhancing police relations with society. The initiative is
México se ha convertido en el paraíso del tráfico de armas para los grupos criminales, según denuncian los expertos. De los casi 15 millones de armas que circulan en el país, alrededor de 13 millones tienen procedencia ilegal. El principal proveedor es Estados Unidos Según
Normally, Rio is numb to violence. Each year, the number of homicides in the city of 12 million people is about one-third that of the entire United States with its 320 million people.
Rob Muggah lifts the lid on his data visualisation tools and exposes the work of cyber cartels, and what we can do to track them
[In Portuguese] Collection of articles on the main challenges and development opportunities in Haiti.
O que está por trás da relação entre o Brasil e a África? O Itamaraty defende tratar-se de um projeto de cooperação, mas o fato é que o Brasil tem interesses econômicos
SP-12: Supporters of progressive drug policy are committed to using scientific evidence as the basis for informed public debate and policy-making.
In the wake of recent cases of police violence in the United States, a national conversation has started about the use of body cameras.
A military response to digital threats can be disproportionate and ineffective to face the risks that already reach the entire brazilian society.
Robert Muggah, research director at the Igarapé Institute, talks about using technology to combat violence
This Strategic Paper reviews the emerging character and functions of ICTs to prevent violence against children in the global South.
Robert Muggah, research director at the Igarapé Institute, was selected by Ericsson as one of 60 winners in the “network society” by using technology to solve complex social problems
[In Portuguese] This article explores Brazil’s advances and shortcomings in protection activities and technical cooperation projects focused on preventing sexual violence.
[In Portugues] It is possible to make Brazil safer? Specialists say it is and share effective iniatives of four brazilian states.
Entrevista com Ilona Szabó, fundadora e diretora executiva do Instituto Igarapé, sobre segurança pública
Vishva Samani reports on how smart policing in Brazil keeps a check on the police
Discovered in Tanzania and diagnosed in America for the first time in december 2013, the Chikungunya virus has been spreading more and more quickly in Haiti.
The use of digital technology for violence prevention in Kenya’s capital still find barriers, but there are also positive perspectives.
News in Jornal do Rio (Band) about Child Security Index (CSI) developed by Igarapé Institute
The Child Security Index (CSI) is an application which measures urban violence by the perspective of children
Documentary with Robert Muggah about urban resilience in situations of chronic violence
One of the sessions of the series “Dialogue on Foreing Policy”, on March 12th, was entitled ‘Perspectives of the New Internacional Governance”. Robert Muggah, from Igarapé Institute, summarizes his intervention in this video
This Strategic Paper represents the most exhaustive treatment to date of the changing landscapes of international cooperation for citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean.
[In Portuguese] Changes in course in Latin America challenge the basis of world’s policy of drugs control and it’s almost exclusive emphasis in offer control.
This Strategic Note analyses the introduction of new technologies and the strategy of police pacification in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas.
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