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In this chapter, we argue that the Sustainable Development Goals should also be read as a “peace agenda”. SDG 16—“Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels”—emphasizes the relationship between peace and sustainable development. It establishes the need to build peaceful societies and reduce the levels of violence as prerequisites for building sustainable trajectories to social and human development. Here, we analyze the importance of SDG to Brazil in particular—a country that is not at war, but has high levels of social violence.
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Important international organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank have been dedicated to understanding and analyzing this relationship. In addition, organizations such as the Institute for Economics & Peace; Pathfinders: For Peace, Just and Including Societies and the International Peace Institute have recently produced important studies on the effects of violence and conflict on development.
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Institute for Economics & Peace. “SDG 16 Progress Report: a comprehensive global audit of progress on available SDG 16 indicators” (2017), p. 07.
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IPEA. Atlas da Violência. Brasilia (2018).
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Menezes, H.Z. (2022). The Sustainable Development Goals as a Peace Agenda: Some Considerations on The Brazilian Case. In: Ferreira, M.A. (eds) Peace and Violence in Brazil. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79209-1_5
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