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Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding (2020)
Report
Goodhand, J., Meehan, P., Thomson, F., Ghiabi, M., & Ball, L. Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding

Voices from the borderlands 2020 is the flagship publication of Drugs & (dis)order, a four year research project generating new evidence on how to transform illicit drug economies into peace economies. It aims to bring to light some of the experience... Read More about Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding.

Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone (2020)
Thesis
Pope, N. Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

This thesis examines the emergence and sustainment of milícias (militias) in the 1990s in the West Zone ‘margins’ of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It considers the rise of milícias as they coincide with urbanisation, economic liberalisation, democratis... Read More about Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone.