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Citizen Security in Brazil: Progress and Challenges

This event explored recent efforts to promote citizen security in Brazil’s urban areas, including the attempts to build more peaceful communities from the ground up.

Date & Time

Friday
Mar. 28, 2014
9:00am – 12:00pm ET

Location

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

Brazil is a key country in the hemisphere-wide debate over how to improve citizen security, not only for the complexity of the problem but also because of the varied and innovative efforts by local and state governments as well as civil society organizations to improving citizen security. The World Cup has focused renewed attention on citizen security issues in Brazil; but Brazil’s challenges go far beyond concerns for the security of millions of Brazilians and an estimated 300,000 foreign tourists that are expected for the World Cup. This event explored recent efforts to promote citizen security in Brazil’s urban areas, including the attempts to build more peaceful communities from the ground up. 

Speakers

Eduarda La Rocque     Instituto Pereira Pasos Prefeitura Rio

Erica Machado             United Nations Development Program

Mauricio Moura           George Washington University and Harvard University

José Luiz Ratton          Federal University of Pernambuco

Robson Rodrigues       Igarapé Institute

Dino Caprirolo             Inter-American Development Bank, Brazil

Presentations from the event are available for download below.

*Erica Machado's presentation available to view via Prezi here

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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more

Brazil Institute

The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—works to foster understanding of Brazil’s complex reality and to support more consequential relations between Brazilian and U.S. institutions in all sectors. The Brazil Institute plays this role by producing independent research and programs that bridge the gap between scholarship and policy, and by serving as a crossroads for leading policymakers, scholars and private sector representatives who are committed to addressing Brazil’s challenges and opportunities.  Read more

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