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This R&D provides resources on Brazil’s “pacification” program.  The program’s goal is to enhance security for the 2016 Summer Olympics and World Cup by sending police officers and soldiers into Rio’s slums.  Critics argue that the campaign is violating the human rights of the poor and causing higher levels of crime in other parts of the city.