Venezuela’s borders are now dangerous flashpoints in a tense showdown between President Nicolas Maduro and Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaidó.

The crisis in Venezuela risks descending into civil war. The all-out power struggle between President Nicolas Maduro and Juan Guaidó is likely to escalate as Guaidó returned to Venezuela on Monday.

The stench of burning tires is hard to escape. Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is again littered with smoldering barricades.

Religious violence is undergoing a revival

Faced with an epidemic of homicidal violence and relentless corruption, newly elected governments in Latin America have unveiled ambitious crime reduction plans

It is now well documented that global warming is a multiplier of insecurity and conflict

In some areas of the world, including Central America, rising sea levels and declining agricultural productivity due to climate change are expected to trigger major migratory flows, especially within countries.

For centuries, herdsmen across Africa’s Sahel headed south during the long, hot dry season.

The warning signs are increasingly hard to ignore

Brazilians are desperate for better public security, and not without good reason

We are living through an era of intense turbulence, disillusionment and bewilderment.

Is the world becoming less violent? The answer is yes and no.

“Anti-migrant sentiment is at fever pitch.” Seeing ourselves as others see us

Long an advocate for refugee rights, Brazil’s response to the Venezuelan crisis has fallen short. Here’s how it could be improved. By Maiara Folly and Robert Muggah Published in Americas Quarterly It’s official. Venezuela is suffering the worst migration crisis in Latin American history. Faced…

Cities, not nation-states, are the dominant unit of human organization in the twenty-first century.