As we show in our new book Terra Incognita, COVID-19 is exacerbating multiple forms of inequality within and between countries and cities, and raising fundamental questions about the future of urban living.

Brazil, a country in the world’s top 10 in population and GDP, is in the midst of three destructive crises.

Welcome to the 2020 Virtual Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development ‘Sustaining Peace in the Time of COVID-19’. The open session ‘Strategic Dialogue on Global Trends: Violence and the Coronavirus’, in partnership with the Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD) Consortium.

EarthTime, the innovative data visualization technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab, takes center stage in a new book addressing some of the greatest challenges facing mankind.

Muggah, who runs a think-tank working on data-driven justice across Latin America called Igarapé Institute, says that Colombia’s sky-high rate of homicide made it not just difficult to differentiate the victims of serial killers from all the other victims, but it made it incredibly hard for the police to investigate, much less prosecute perpetrators.

The world has learned much about the devastating impact of COVID-19 on human health and well-being. It is also waking up to the pandemic’s positive effects on the planet’s atmosphere, ecosystems, and biodiversity.

During the first half of 2020 when more than two-thirds of the world’s population was in lockdown, many of us were transfixed by a map.

What remains of the global, open internet came under attack this month.

The U.S.-China dispute just took a dangerous turn. Late last week, the U.S. government issued three separate measures – two executive orders imposing sanctions on social-media networks WeChat and TikTok, and another to set up a “clean network” program – that, come mid-September, would prohibit any U.S. citizen or company from conducting business with those apps’ Chinese parent companies, Tencent and ByteDance respectively.

As explained in my new book with Ian Goldin – Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years – maps can help make sense of the world around us.