[In Portuguese] In today’s world, quintessentially multipolar, more and more actors are involving themselves in the elaboration of the global development agenda.

[In Portuguese] A report about the brazilian hability to use their specialists in international missions.

[In Portuguese] Article about new opportunities for Brazil internacional insertion in pos-conflict contexts.

This report considers the extent to which disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and related concepts are accounted for in peace processes and peace agreements.

Government officials estimate tens of thousands more were made homeless after Haiti hurricane season in 2010.

This article debates Brazil’s role in peacebuilding, reflecting on it’s new position as a ascendant power.

[In Portuguese] Brief survey of Brazil’s cooperation, emphasizing the recent background, juridic-institutional difficulties and operational mechanisms used by cooperation agents.

Brazil has accumulated experience in deploying civilian professionals to multilateral missions. These contributions, however, fall short of what the UN requires.

Article on Brazil’s position on the protection of civilians (PoC), “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) and the new approach “Responsibility While Protecting” (RwP).

[In Portuguese] The “Responsability to Protect” was officially inserted in UN on 2005. One of it’s main contributions is to put and end to some discussions about the material limits of military intervention for humanitarian purpose.

Crime and victimization are amongst the most pressing concerns cited by Haitian citizens today. Surveys indicate that they are increasingly common in urban centers.

[In Portuguese] This report highlights mechanisms developed by 10 countries to identify, prepare and employ civilian specialists over the last 15 years.

The Igarapé Institute coordinated the first ever seminar on Brazilian civilian capacities for peace support operations in February 2012.

[In English and French] This chapter demonstrates how Brazil has increasingly aligned its foreign policy with a ‘South–South Cooperation’ (SSC) agenda as a means of achieving these parallel objectives.

Random household surveys conducted on a monthly basis between August 2011 and February 2012 indicate that violent crime is increasingly common in Haiti.