Robert Muggah

Robert Muggah is the founder of the Igarapé Institute and SecDev Group.

Stories by Robert Muggah

Members of Brazil’s armed forces patrol the favelas of Chapéu Mangueira and Babilônia in Rio de Janeiro on June 21, 2018.

Brazil’s Murder Rate Finally Fell—and by a Lot

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April 22, 2019, 4:56 PM

A Syrian force’s artillery observer looks through a scope as smoke plumes rise on the horizon, near Hama, on April 1, 2017. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)Syrian government forces and allies regained most of the territory they lost earlier during an assault by rebels and jihadists launched on March 21, 2017 in the country's centre, reported the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor on March 31, 2017.
Hama province is of strategic importance to President Bashar al-Assad, as it separates opposition forces in the northwestern province of Idlib from Damascus to the south and from the regime's coastal heartlands to the west. / AFP PHOTO / STRINGER (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)

The State of War

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Rachel Kleinfeld, Robert Muggah

March 18, 2019, 12:02 PM

A woman walks by a United Nations soldier in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Nov 13. (John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images)

Is Kabila Using Ethnic Violence to Delay Elections?

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November 27, 2018, 9:22 AM

Community police patrol the hills in Carrizalillo, Guerrero state, one of Mexico’s most dangerous, crime-ridden regions, on March 24. (Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images)

The Coming Crime Wars

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Robert Muggah, John P. Sullivan

September 21, 2018, 10:21 AM

U.N. peacekeepers from Gabon patrol in Bria, Central African Republic, on June 12, 2017.

The U.N. Can’t Bring Peace to the Central African Republic

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August 16, 2018, 8:21 AM

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