Sixteen years after the formation of BRICS, this article proposes a historical analysis of the bloc’s establishment and consolidation, with a focus on the main challenges faced by the current...
Brazil is internationally recognized for its strict tobacco control policies, having implemented a series of measures to reduce consumption and mitigate the impacts of smoking on public health. ...
The Urban 20 (U20) is “a city diplomacy initiative that brings together cities from the G20 member countries with the aim of promoting debate and the political articulation of recommendations...
This publication consolidates and expands the analysis begun in the series “BRICS in Expansion”, published on the Socio-Environmental Platform's Instagram profile between 2023 and 2025. This work is part of...
Created in 2013, the Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM) is an initiative of the Institute of International Relations (IRI) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio),...
This work began as a translation of the text “Systems of Conflict”, originally published in December 2023 in the Virtual Encyclopedia, a project linked to the Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace...
This briefing focuses on the centralization of social participation as an essential component for the achievement of development objectives, broadly understood as “an organized intervention in collective issues according to...
This glossary seeks to clarify key concepts in the field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) by briefly introducing some theories, approaches, techniques, methods and methodologies for the implementation and follow-up...
According to the World Bank (1996, p. 6), “articipation is a process by which stakeholders influence and share control over development initiatives and the decisions and resources that affect them”....
Why bother with emerging middle powers when most of the international discussion since Donald Trump took office for the second time is dominated by the great-power politics of the United...