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…

Open in your web browser Newsletter nº 9 – October 2017 Urban Resilience debate in TED If we design our cities right, we just might survive the twenty first century. Cities – not nation states – must need to take the lead in designing in…

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    Newsletter nº 3 – March, 2017 It’s time to reduce homicide in Latin America Across Latin America, death stalks the young. Every 15 minutes, a young Latin American is murdered. This translates into roughly 400 killings a day, or 140,000 a year. In some…