There is growing evidence that climate change can increase the risks of conflict and violence.

By adopting the EPON’s methodology framework, the report has evaluated the effectiveness of the UN peacekeeping efforts in the DRC across eight critical dimensions. A number of significant strategic and operational impacts and three constraints that have undermined UN efforts have also been identified.

Prison Populism finds that Latin America will likely sustain the world´s highest proportion of inmates for the foreseeable future.

The objective of this study is to offer a data-driven review of the growth, trends, and the principle reasons behind the rapid expansion of the prison population in the region during the past two decades.

One of the world’s most homicidal countries just registered the sharpest overall decline of lethal violence in its history

Brazilians have an uneasy but enduring co-existence with homicide. Over 1,060,000 of them have been murdered since 2000.

Gun makers and military industry companies from all over the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro for Latin America’s largest defense and security fair Tuesday, hoping to benefit from Brazil’s new far-right administration and President Jair Bolsonaro’s vow to loosen gun laws.

Robert Muggah, diretor de pesquisa do Igarapé, falou à BBC sobre mudanças climáticas e sua influência na violência.

Apresentação do diretor de pesquisa do Instituto Igarapé, Robert Muggah, no World Governance Forum.

Cities are the defining form of human organization in the 21st century

Brazil has an uneasy co-existence with homicide. At least 1,060,000 Brazilians have been murdered since 2000.

What’s the effect of temperature rising on conflicts at world’s most vulnerable areas?

Last week, two gunmen opened fire at a high school near Sao Paulo, killing eight people, including five schoolchildren

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho is the cofounder and executive director of the Igarapé Institute, a think and do tank based in Brazil and a cofounder of Agora, an initiative to promote and implement more effective public policy.

The world is less violent today than at virtually any other time in human history. Hard as it is to believe, deaths from armed conflicts between states have declined dramatically since the 1950s.