The COVID-19 pandemic brought the world’s bustling cities to a screeching halt. The outbreak has revealed how urban centers are the front and last lines of defense against infectious disease outbreaks. They are also the key to leading national and global recovery.
Published in New Europe By Robert Muggah Our cities will not be the same after COVID-19. Nor should they be. In Italy, as elsewhere, the public-health crisis has put us on the defensive. Our hospitals have been inadequate. And our cities, having been planned to
Se líderes políticos e grandes empresas tomarem as melhores decisões, as cidades podem sair melhores do que entraram na pandemia
O mundo está em convulsão pelo novo coronavírus, mas esse não é o único patógeno que nos afeta. A violência criminal também é endêmica, contagiosa e altamente virulenta.
Published in Foreign Policy By Robert Muggah The world is convulsed by the novel coronavirus, but that is not the only pathogen that afflicts us. Criminal violence is also endemic, contagious, and highly virulent. More than 464,000 people were killed in homicides in 2017 (the last
Strategic Notes on Third Generation Gangs builds upon the third generation street gang (3Gen Gang) theory first articulated in a series of papers by John P. Sullivan in 1997.
To understand more about the crisis confronting the urban poor, The New Humanitarian interviewed Robert Muggah, principal of The SecDev Group and co-founder of the Igarapé Institute,
As coronavirus gales across the Americas, officials from Mexico to Chile have puzzled over how to keep millions locked down at home
Published in Financial Times By Robert Muggah With president Jair Bolsonaro dismissing the pandemic as “sniffles” and criticising regional lockdown measures, the country’s drug gangs and paramilitary groups have stepped in to enforce social distancing to combat the spread of coronavirus. “Whoever is caught on
Publicado em France 24 Por Robert Muggah O diretor de pesquisa do Instituto Igarapé Robert Muggah concedeu ao canal FRANCE 24 uma entrevista sobre o assunto. Assista:
Published in Washington Post By Robert Muggah Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are jailed in crammed cells under unsanitary conditions, fertile ground for the spread of the coronavirus, but many governments have yet to adopt measures that could prevent the pandemic from
Published in Bloomberg By Robert Muggah At midnight on March 17, Paraguay closed down the Friendship Bridge to Brazil. It was the first time in more than half a century that traffic stopped on the emblematic land link between the two South American neighbors, where
With COVID-19 infections now evident in 176 countries, the pandemic is the most significant threat to humanity since the second world war. Then, as now, confidence in international cooperation and institutions plumbed new lows.
Far from merely reflecting an unequal distribution of economic means, rising inequality comes with a broad range of additional toxic side effects, many of which the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief. With the pandemic transforming life around the world before our eyes, this is a problem that can no longer be ignored.
Publicado em Folha de S. Paulo Por Robert Muggah. Traduzido por Sergio Schargel. A Covid-19 será devastadora em comunidades e países de renda baixa e média, e o enfrentamento à pandemia e à recessão econômica demanda uma resposta global contundente que envolva governos nacionais, cidades e a sociedade civil.
Published in Reuters By Robert Muggah Liliana was there when local men abducted her teenage friend on the outskirts of El Salvador’s capital, and she saw exactly who did it. But when police came to question her, she kept quiet. Her family, who were living
Publicado em GQ Por Robbert Muggah Simpósio da Singularity University esta semana reuniu especialistas em debates variados sobre o assunto. Em casos como o que estamos vivendo, se informar nunca é demais. Se por um lado órgãos e instituições tem deixado claro um arcabouço de
Published in Project Syndicate By Robert Muggah The COVID-19 pandemic was not just predictable but inevitable, which makes the skyrocketing economic and human costs of the crisis all the more unacceptable. If the international community does not respond by creating new global structures to deal
Published in US Today By Robert Muggah A data analysis by USA TODAY finds that, two weeks after the U.S. first entered into community transmission on March 3, America’s trajectory is trending toward Italy’s, where circumstances are dire. U.S. officials are sounding the alarm, urging
As COVID-19 spreads around the world, non-resident senior fellow on global cities Robert Muggah shares his insights into the spread and impact of pandemics
Where a person is born and lives correlates with their overall life chances. Unsurprisingly, people living in environments characterized by high levels of economic and social inequality tend to be more exposed to violence and victimization than those living elsewhere.
Homicides in Brazil are projected to have fallen 16 percent in 2019 as compared to the previous year, although Latin America’s most populous nation still had more than 41,000 murders, the highest total number in the region
Uso de novas tecnologias de combate ao crime prolifera no Brasil como promessa de eficiência, contudo ferramentas de reconhecimento facial e de previsão de delitos podem minar liberdades civis e estimular discriminação se mal administradas.
Published in Associated Press By Robert Muggah Brazil had 41,635 killings in 2019, down 19% from the prior year and the least number of homicides since 2007, when the so-called Violence Monitor index was launched. It is a partnership between the non-profit Brazilian Forum of
Rio de Janeiro’s ultra-conservative governor, Wilson Witzel, was elected in 2018 on a tough-on-crime ticket.
Na última década, as taxas de assassinatos de jovens no Brasil cresceram 17%. Quase metade dos índices gerais de homicídio do país em 2018, que foi de 56 mil, corresponde à morte de homens negros, com idade entre 15 e 29 anos.
América Latina tiene el 8 % de la población mundial, pero contribuye con un tercio de todos los homicidios que ocurren en el mundo. El problema tiende a crecer y si no se hace nada, la tasa regional de homicidios que es de 21 por 100,000 habitantes puede llegar a 35 por 100,000 habitantes para 2030.
A matemática é simples: os algoritmos tomam decisões a partir de um banco de dados. Mas esse banco de dados traz distorções, então os resultados também serão distorcidos.
Mudanças maciças nas novas tecnologias estão atrapalhando a aplicação da lei e da justiça criminal em todo o mundo. Há enormes vantagens a serem obtidas com o mapeamento de crimes em tempo real e o policiamento preditivo, mas também enormes riscos em relação a práticas policiais discriminatórias e privacidade de dados. Robert Muggah, Emile Badran e Katherine Aguirre discutem essas questões em uma nova publicação do Instituto Igarapé – Crime Prediction for More Agile Policing in Cities.
I study violence in Latin America, and I’ve observed a sharp increase in reports of religiously motivated crimes in Rio de Janeiro since 2016, in particular attacks on “terreiros” – the temples of the Candomblé and Umbanda faiths.
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