Violent competition over key trafficking routes erupted in late 2016 after Brazil’s two biggest gangs ended a 23-year truce, notes Robert Muggah, research director at Instituto Igarapé.

Notes from Colombia Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Agua Bonita, Colombia Nested among the lush green mountains of Caquetá, in the Amazonía region of Colombia, around 200 ex-combatants from the FARC guerrilla group are building a socialist community in the same area where they laid down…

New publication by Igarapé Institute discusses possible paths for a Cuban drug policy reform Cuba has one of the lowest violence rates in the Caribbean and Latin America. However, when it comes to drugs, it has one of the more punitive policies in the region…

[In spanish] El Foro Económico Mundial, publicó resultados del estudio realizado por expertos del Consejo del Futuro Global dónde dieron su visión de cómo será el mundo en el año 2030.

Lessons from Colombia’s FARC Peace Process Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Caquetá (Colombia) Humanitarian demining is often presented as a technical component of post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding, a painstaking and slow process necessary to avoid the human suffering caused by anti-personnel mines, improvised explosive devices, and…

Burundi’s ongoing political instability highlights the stark divide between global conflict prevention rhetoric and practice   Priyal Singh   Since the announcement by  Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza, to run for a controversial third term in early 2015, political instability across the country – marked by…

East Timor Initiatives in Guinea-Bissau   Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bissau   Can conflict-affected states effectively support one another in overcoming recurring instability and promoting development and sustaining peace?  Timor-Leste’s growing cooperation with Guinea-Bissau suggests that, although incipient, fragile-to-fragile (F2F) cooperation may become a promising…

[In spanish] DW habló con dos experts sobre los obstáculos con que se topan a la hora de procesar las estadísticas acerca de los homicídios dolosos en Latinoamérica.

WEF Forum November, 2017 Friday´s savage attack in Egypt is a reminder that the vast majority of terrorist-related killings occur in less well known cities far from the media glare. To be sure, the brutal murder of 305 practicing Sufis in Bir al-Abed represents a…

Social Technologies for Peacebuilding?     Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bissau   South-South Cooperation (SSC) often adopts a discourse that is strongly centered on development and that keeps security at arm’s length. However, many SSC partners increasingly undertake cooperation initiatives in conflict-affected or politically unstable…

The world’s cities generate more than 75% of global carbon emissions – it’s time for them to play a more prominent role in fighting climate change.

Thomson Reuters Foundation November, 2017 BARCELONA – Many cities are being overwhelmed by growing numbers of people migrating to them, and will become highly vulnerable to floods, storms and other disasters unless authorities receive more support, urban experts said on Wednesday. The proportion of the…

What Role in Peacebuilding?   Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bissau     Far from a novelty, South-South Cooperation (SSC) has been in place for half a century in parts of the developing world, including Portuguese-language countries in Africa.  A number of SSC development partners are…

Regional efforts like those against the LRA and Boko Haram could reinvent continental approaches to conflicts   Gustavo de Carvalho and Annette Leijenaar With the increasing use of ad hoc security initiatives in Africa, there is new momentum for the African Pehttps://issafrica.org/author/annette-leijenaaace and Security Architecture (APSA) to…

Here are some of the key talking points and a small selection of the ideas proposed by Seven hundred experts from the World Economic Forum’s “Future Councils”.