Political violence is hardly new to America. Since the country’s inception, gunmen have shaped its political landscape, from the Civil War to the Ku Klux Klan, to high-profile assassinations and the bombing of federal buildings. Yet the threat of political violence has deepened in recent years and…

Homicides in the metropolitan area with Argentina’s highest crime rate have decreased this year as local police presence has increased and President Javier Milei implements a crackdown on crime to fulfill one of his main campaign promises. Homicides in the city of Rosario, an agricultural…

This is the second article in a series on the challenges and opportunities of the urban Amazon. Read the first one here. Framed by an elegant riverside promenade and a modest skyline with streets enviably free of gridlock, Macapá is that rare major Brazilian city with…

Robert Muggah: “El crimen organizado está haciendo metástasis y América Latina está pagando el costo” La violencia y la inseguridad se han tomado la agenda de la mayoría de los países latinoamericanos, pero la polarización de los mundos políticos ha hecho difícil encontrar maneras de…

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.

Brazil has struggled to contain prison violence for decades. A riot at the Altamira prison in Pará state on July 29, which left at least 62 inmates dead, revealed just how much work still needs to be done.

The Guardian – This week, New York and LA reacted very differently to the same bomb scare. So how does a city judge how seriously to take such threats – and is it really that easy to bring a major metropolis to a halt?

India has reached the second largest number of homicides in the world, which policies should be applied in order to reverse these statistics?

This Strategic Note reviews Brazil’s implementation efforts of Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, particularly in relation to UN peacekeeping operations.

The Cape Town Dialogue included a number of in-depth discussions about crime and violence prevention in urban communities.

Igarapé Institute launches the Homicide Monitor, a digital application that reveals that just a small number of countries account for a disproportionately large share of the global burden of murder

“Strong gun laws are not equivalent to taking guns away from citizens”, says newest p-ed written by Rob Muggah and Ilona Szabó and published at the The Huffington Post

The special collection – Citizen Security Dialogues: Dispatches from Mexico – features original research from Mexico’s leading security and justice experts.

The use of digital technology for violence prevention in Kenya’s capital still find barriers, but there are also positive perspectives.

This report considers how citizen security have been operationalised across Latin America, assembling more than 1,300 citizen interventions across the region since the late 1990s.