Humanitarian Practice Network – A goal to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies

World Economic Forum – More and more cities are being held hostage to the threat of terrorism

El País January, 2016 Tentativas de cercear os direitos digitais dos brasileiros contrastam com a fama do país de bastião da liberdade na rede Uma juíza de São Paulo chocou o Brasil em dezembro ao exigir que todas as operadoras de telefonia do país bloqueassem…

Brazilians take their social media very seriously. The country has one of the fastest growing populations of Internet users in the world

It is hard to know with certainty where and why cities will falter and fail in the 21st century

Devex – It is hard to know with certainty where and why cities will falter and fail in the 21st century

The Guardian – Across the global development sector, a new narrative on the relationship between security and development is gathering momentum

Global Post – A considerable proportion of illegally acquired firearms in Mexico were originally sold by federally licensed dealers in the US

The Guardian – This week, New York and LA reacted very differently to the same bomb scare. So how does a city judge how seriously to take such threats – and is it really that easy to bring a major metropolis to a halt?

Yemen is the new Syria. A civil war erupted there early this year between two factions, each claiming to be the legitimate government

Foreign Affairs – Over the last five months, El Salvador has suffered unprecedented levels of homicidal violence

Americas Quarterly – Economic growth alone won’t stem violent crime. But the right policies – and leadership – can make a difference

BID – A vast array of public and private policies and programs are underway. Most of them can be categorized as “citizen security” interventions

IDS – While no one knows for sure, at least 600 informal settlements litter the hills and peripheral areas of Rio de Janeiro. The city’s 1.5 million poor live cheek to jowl

By 2050, roughly 6.4 billion people – almost the equivalent of the planet´s current population – will live in a city. The future success of the SDGs resides, in large part, in cities.