Securing the border: Brazil’s “South America First” Approach to Transnational Organized Crime
This Strategic Paper offers an overview of the scope and scale of organized crime in Latin America and Brazil more specifically.
This Strategic Paper offers an overview of the scope and scale of organized crime in Latin America and Brazil more specifically.
The Atlantic – There’s a war brewing in Central America
This Strategic Paper was written as a contribution to the debate about UN reform with specific reference to the protection of civilians by peacekeeping missions under international law.
Open Democracy – It will be decided in these new types of situations that are neither war nor peace, a new kind of menace facing cities worldwide
Tourism is consider fundamental for Haiti’s economy reconstruction, which may seem a paradox in a poor and prone to disasters country.
[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.
Government officials estimate tens of thousands more were made homeless after Haiti hurricane season in 2010.
How is cyberspace shaping citizens action and State-society relations in Latin America? Check the preliminary outcomes of the field research in Brazil.
[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.
MAD features over 35 000 records of the exports and imports of small arms and ammunition from more than 262 states and territories between 1992 and 2012
Crime and victimization are amongst the most pressing concerns cited by Haitian citizens today. Surveys indicate that they are increasingly common in urban centers.
This Strategic Paper examines the character and dynamics of cyber-crime and the ways in which it is being addressed in Latin America.
[In Portuguese] This report highlights mechanisms developed by 10 countries to identify, prepare and employ civilian specialists over the last 15 years.
Random household surveys conducted on a monthly basis between August 2011 and February 2012 indicate that violent crime is increasingly common in Haiti.
Robert Muggah talks about criminal violence in non-war scenarios like Africa and America
Documentary on violence and firearms in developing countries
This concept note parses out emerging “southern-effect” and some of its wider implications for engagement with fragile states in the twenty first century.
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