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- Title
Is Rio de Janeiro preparing for war? Combating organized crime versus non-international armed conflict.
- Authors
Palma, Najla Nassif
- Abstract
The idea that Rio de Janeiro has been plunged into an actual "war" against organized crime is widely discussed and is supported by an ever-increasing number of people in Brazil. Not surprisingly, such discourse has led to less protection for the civilian population, particularly in the so-called favelas , while allowing security forces to carry out operations with even greater relative impunity. This article argues that although urban violence in Rio de Janeiro is indeed a serious problem, it does not reach the threshold required to be considered a non-international armed conflict.
- Subjects
RIO de Janeiro (Brazil); BRAZIL; WAR; URBAN violence; CIVIL defense; ORGANIZED crime
- Publication
International Review of the Red Cross, 2023, Vol 105, Issue 923, p795
- ISSN
1816-3831
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1816383123000127