Humanitarian agencies are questioning when and how to engage with violent urban settings. This article presents possible ways to solve this question.

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

The article introduces a basic typology to conceptualize various types of internal displacement in Brazil.

15/04/2014 Violent disorder in Ciudad Juarez: a spatial analysis of homicide This article considers the extent to which specific demographic and socioeconomic factors correlate with homicidal violence in the context of Mexico’s “war” on organized crime. We draw on Ciudad Juarez as a case study…

[In Portuguese] In a collective statement, experts ask for the Brazilian government to work with a universal and inclusive agenda that has at its center, security and development of the poorest accordindg to Susteinable Development Objectives (SDO).

This article considers the extent to which specific demographic and socioeconomic factors correlate with homicidal violence in the context of Mexico’s “war” on organized crime.

An interactive, web-based visualization that captures interlocking networks related to the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This report considers how changes under way in Latin America drug policy are challenging the foundations of the repressive regime – specially the “war on drugs”.

[In portuguese] This paper analyzes the opportunities for greater participation of Brazilian police officers in United Nations peace operations.

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.