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Strategic Note: Cyberspace & Open Empowerment in Latin America

17 Jun 2013

Across Latin America, cyberspace is fundamentally rewiring the ways groups, individuals and states engage with politics, economics, social action and governance. With some 40% of...

Technology and the Syria Crisis

11 Jun 2013

Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies – Professional Training Program on Mass Atrocity Prevention, 11-13 June 2013 Anwar Abas and Micah Clark –...

The drug war debate must change. Canada can help.

31 May 2013

By Robert Muggah for The Globe And Mail Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week visited Colombia and Peru, two of the most productive economies in Latin...

A much-needed change of tune in war on drugs

28 May 2013

By Robert Muggah for thestar • Image: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Canadians should acknowledge Latin Americans’ very real grievances with the war on drugs, and our shared responsibility in...

Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Recovery: The International Expert Forum

23 May 2013

Photo Credit: erichon / Shutterstock.com On May 23, policymakers, practitioners and researchers met for the fourth International Expert Forum (IEF) in New York. More than 40...

Child’s Play — the Business of Guns in America

05 May 2013

By Robert Muggah, Co-authored with Jurgen Brauer for Huffington Post • Image: Chip Renata Sedmakova / shutterstock Children are at the front line of America’s gun debate. More young citizens...

A Massive Drug Trade, and No Violence

24 Apr 2013

Originally Published in The Atlantic Peru is the single largest producer of cocaine in the world. It’s also an incredibly safe country. Peru is the single...

Crisis Communications: Avoiding Escalation in Cyberspace

19 Apr 2013

Rafal Rohozinski participates in the panel session on Crisis Communications: Avoiding Escalation in Cyberspace hosted by The Atlantic Council Georgetown University

Taking Security Seriously: Considerations for the High-Level Panel

18 Apr 2013

Originally Published in openCanada The post-2015 development agenda will shape the direction of aid policy and practice for decades. And for the selected goals to...

Peacekeeping Operations and the Durability of Peace: What Works and What Does Not?

17 Mar 2013

Photo Credit: Sadik Gulec / Shutterstock.com This meeting note is from the third International Expert Forum (IEF) held at IPI on December 10, 2012, in a joint collaboration...

Haiti’s Silenced Victims

08 Dec 2012

Originally Published in The New York Times A TEXT MESSAGE was the first sign that something was wrong. In the week after Hurricane Sandy hit...

Killing them softly in Medellin

24 Nov 2012

Originally Published in openDemocracy More than sixty musicians were threatened with death immediately after El Duke´s funeral. The ceremony was considered a provocation by armed criminal...

Opposition Forces Seize Surface-to-air Missiles

23 Nov 2012

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Ansar Al Islam, a hardline Islamist organization, have captured an estimated 15 surface-to-air missiles over the past two weeks...

Mitigating the Consequences of Violent Conflict: What Works and What Does Not?

14 Nov 2012

Photo Credit: jan kranendonk / Shutterstock.com This meeting note reflects the discussions of the Second International Expert Forum held at IPI on June 6th, 2012. The...

Why Personal Security Should Be Part of the Post-2015 Development Agenda

13 Nov 2012

Originally Published in Global Observantory The precarious state of security across the Middle East and North Africa are making some development experts nervous. Is security a...

Disrupting Illicit Arms

28 Jul 2012

Google Ideas INFO Summit – Disrupting Illicit Arms: This panel looked at the illicit arms trade and discussed how small arms, such as the AK47, are...

A fine balance: Mapping cyber (in)security in Latin America

17 Jun 2012

Latin American governments are worried about criminality in cyberspace. Like all regions around the world, Latin America is experiencing an information revolution. Internet usage is...

Conflict Prevention and Preventive Diplomacy

14 Mar 2012

Photo Credit: Aekkaphob / Shutterstock.com The purpose of the first International Expert Forum, “Conflict Prevention and Preventive Diplomacy: What Works and What Doesn’t?,” was to explore...

Violence and crime after disaster: Security concerns in emergency response

20 Dec 2011

Dr Robert Muggah is a Fellow at The SecDev Foundation, the Instituto de Relações Internacionais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio, researching humanitarian action in non-war...

Understanding Security from the Bottom-Up in Haiti

08 Nov 2011

After the 2010 earthquake killed some 160,000 people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, international actors rapidly focused on increased policing and security sector reforms. This focus...

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