Where do Rio de Janeiro’s crime guns come from?
By Robert Muggah originally for OpenDemocracy The vast majority of firearms in the hands of the population are of Brazilian origin. Its... 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
Is Urban Terrorism the New Normal? Probably
By Robert Muggah originally for the World Economic Forum A handful of hastily written emails spread shock waves across the United States last month.... Read More
Why Our Future Depends on Cities
By Robert Muggah This article is published in collaboration with Devex for The World Economic Forum It is hard to know with certainty where... Read More
How Are Some Fragile Cities Tackling Their Worst Problems?
Our Director of Research, Robert Muggah, was recently featured in an NPR Radio interview. Based on Robert’s 2014 TED Talk, the interview... Read More
The Age of the Fragile City: An IISS Event
Our Director of Public Policy and Research, Robert Muggah, will be participating in an upcoming event at London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies.... Read More
Book Launch – The Open Empowerment Era: From Digital Protest to Cyber War
Next month, The SecDev Foundation will launch its upcoming Book, The Open Empowerment Era: From Digital Protest to Cyber War, at London’s Chatham House.... Read More
New Urban Agenda & Intermediary Cities
A recent Citiscope’s article featured the work of our own Robert Muggah. The piece, by Borja M. Iglésias, considered the need for the... Read More
Why We Must Count the Human Cost of War
By Robert Muggah for the World Economic Forum The economist Paul Collier famously argued that wars are development in reverse. The human costs are... Read More
From Syria to Sudan: how do you count the dead?
Estimating the human toll of war or humanitarian crisis is a vital job, but no one can quite agree on how to... Read More