Rio’s Pacification: Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Maintenance? Reviewing the pacification literature, this paper exposes a mismatch between contemporary understandings of causes and drivers of urban violence and the methodological approaches applied to assess the success of pacification in the case of Rio de Janeiro. It…

From Fragile States to Fragile Cities: Redefining Spaces of Humanitarian Practices There are widespread claims that cities are becoming places of growing violence and that as a result, some cities, or zones within urban areas, can be treated as conflict zones. This article traces some of the…

The Impacts of Violence on Access to Health in Low-Income Communities This HASOW Discussion Paper focuses on the relationships between urban violence and the supply and demand for health services, in selected neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro. The HASOW paper is based on a household…

HASOW International Conference Report In March 2013, the first HASOW International Conference: “The Politics of Protection and the Future of Humanitarian Practices” took place at PUC-Rio. Its participants included doctors, lecturers and specialists in the topics relevant to the project. The objectives of the conference were…