Digital safety in the world’s most dangerous war zone
By Deirdre Collings and Robert Muggah for iPolitics In war-torn Syria, the contents of one’s phone mean the difference between life and... Read More
Urban Governance in Fragile Cities
By Robert Muggah originally for GSDRC The planet is urbanising at a rapid pace. There is not agreed definition of what constitutes... Read More
California’s Gangs Go Digital and Global
By Robert Muggah and Julian Way for the Council on Foreign Relations Around the world, social media is being colonized not just by extremist... Read More
New Book Explores Digital Protest and Cyber War
How is technology driving political and social protest around the world? In what ways are cartels, gangs and insurgent groups colonizing cyberspace?... Read More
Terrorism is on the Rise – But There’s a Bigger Threat We’re not Talking About
Originally Published by the World Economic Forum By Robert Muggah High-profile attacks on major cities in Belgium, France and the United States... Read More
A Big Night in Ottawa: Launching a Magazine and a Working Group
It was a big night for us yesterday in Ottawa. In cooperation with the Canadian International Council (CIC) National Capital Branch, we hosted... Read More
Urban Terrorism, Violent Extremism and the Internet
In cooperation with the Canadian International Council (CIC) National Capital Branch, The SecDev Foundation presents a special Intelligence Futures panel: Urban Terrorism,... Read More
6 Lessons From Companies Operating in War-Torn Communities
By Robert Muggah and Elissa Golberg for the World Economic Forum Virtually every government, business and civil society organization around the world has... Read More
The UN Gets Serious About Peace
By Robert Muggah for OpenCanada It’s official. The world is entering a new period of global instability. Political and economic uncertainties, together... Read More
It’s Really Hard to Say Which City is the World’s Most Murderous
By Renata Giannini, Robert Muggah, and Katherine Aguirre for GlobalPost The news trickling out of Caracas just keeps getting worse. A recently published ranking of the world’s most... Read More