February, 2018 Current drug policy too often has a negative impact on communities and runs counter to efforts to ameliorate poverty through sustainable development. However, this is often not captured by the metrics used to measure the impact of drug policy. One way to improve these
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 gran escala del orden
Central America’s northern triangle countries – El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras – have long ranked among the world’s most violent. Yet there are also hopeful signs across Latin America, including Central America, of major improvements in safety and security. Reductions in lethal violence are a result
Igarapé Institute’s research director Robert Muggah had a busy month in January 2018. In addition to being the recipient of the 2017 Lewis Perinbam Award for International Development, he was nominated to advise the World Economic Forum’s 2018 Global Risks Report. What is more, starting
The Igarapé Institute has an extensive research and action plan on UN-led peacekeeping, including operations involving Brazil. Specifically, the Institute is looking to help advance 2016 UN General Assembly resolutions and declarations made by the UN Security Council. The Institute participated in a recent conference
Governments across Latin America are increasingly exploring evidence-based approaches to public security. It is critical to make evidence of what works (and what does not) available. To this end, the Institute published a seminal report in 2013 - Mapping Citizen Security Interventions in Latin America:
In late 2018 the Igarapé Institute kicked-off a new column series with Brazil’s leading print media outlet, Folha de Sao Paulo. The column is written by Ilona Szabó and reaches over 300,000 subscribers and 100 million readers every month. The column comes out twice a
After a year of training at the Preparatory School of the Brazilian Army (EsPCEx), 33 cadets finally entered the Agulha Negras Military Academy (AMAN) in January. This would not be news, except for the fact that they are female cadets. For the first time in
Febrero, 2018 Ciudad Capital Entrevista con Katherine Aguirre Tobón- Economista La tregua a los delincuentes es un atajo político que no garantiza solución a la violencia letal El Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica carga com el lastre de la región más violenta del mundo, fuera de los contextos
February, 2018Project 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 proponents of liberal
Venezuelans escaping economic crisis at home are also now pouring into Brazil. Though neighboring Colombia has born the brunt of this exodus, Brazil has seen 60,000 crossings from Venezuela and numbers are rising fast.
The question is whether our world leaders are capable of fully understanding what is happening in real time and can muster the collective action to set new rules of the road.
Lessons from Colombia Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bogotá A signed agreement between warring parties does not guarantee peace. Indeed, empirical evidence shows that peace processes often fail during the implementation stage if clauses in the agreement remain unfulfilled. Institutional inertia, political resistance, lack of inclusivity, or even
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 leaders who
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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