Aug 2014 – Jul 2017
Brazil’s Rise to the Global Stage (BraGS) seeks to understand the drivers behind Brazilian humanitarian action and participation in peacekeeping and peacebuilding activities. As a new player in the field of humanitarian assistance, Brazil has brought a new form of moral and strategic motivations to the table. However, humanitarian action also serves Brazil’s regional and international ambitions as a rising power. Improving knowledge on Brazil and its international positioning in general requires a better understanding of its policies of humanitarian engagement, which has become a crucial field of Brazil’s foreign policy.
Through its engagement, Brazil has sought to reconceptualize both humanitarianism and peacekeeping, in line with its more principled stance on sovereignty, non-intervention and less conditionality. The point of departure of the project is innovative as it does not seek to understand the engagement of Brazil in terms of the traditional binary between challenging norms or assimilating to them, but rather contends that this must be a matter of empirical inquiry. Beyond its immediate relevance to humanitarianism and peacekeeping, the project addresses the role of rising powers in global governance, and the status component of humanitarian engagements.
The project explores the following questions:
BraGS will address these questions through a collaborative project bringing together both Norwegian and Brazilian researchers and institutions, with Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (project leader) and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik from PRIO, Benjamin de Carvalho from NUPI, independent consultant Torkjell Leira, Paulo Esteves from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Eduarda Hamann from the Igarapé Institute in Brasilia, and Liliana Jubilut from the Universidade Católica do Santos (UniSantos).
Four PRIO researchers have contributed to the upcoming book 'REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT: Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance'. The collection, which will be released this month, examines the issue from various angles, including the social, legal, historical, and political ramifications.
The book was edited by Adèle Garnier, Liliana Lyra Jubilut, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik.
The NCHS Annual Report for 2014 is now available! You can read the report online or download it here.
The report gives an overview of the projects, events, blogs and publications of the Centre for 2014. Further information about NCHS researchers and affiliates is available here.
Edited Volume
Book Chapter in Status and the Rise of Brazil: Global Ambitions, Humanitarian Engagement and International Challenges
Book Chapter in Status and the Rise of Brazil Global Ambitions, Humanitarian Engagement and International Challenges
Book Chapter in Refugee Resettlement: Power, Politics and Humanitarian Governance
Book Chapter in Refugee Resettlement: Power, Politics and Humanitarian Governance
Journal Article in Third World Thematics: a TWQ Journal
Edited Volume
Book Chapter in Refugee Resettlement: Power, Politics and Humanitarian Governance
Book Chapter in Refugee Resettlement: Power, Politics and Humanitarian Governance
Book Chapter in Refugee Resettlement: Power, Politics and Humanitarian Governance
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
Book Chapter in South-South Cooperation Beyond the Myths: Rising Donors, New Aid Practices?
Report - Other
Report - External Series
Journal Article in Latin American Perspectives
Journal Article in Military Review
Journal Article in Forced Migration Review
Popular Article in Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies
Popular Article in Aftenposten
Popular Article in Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies
Book Chapter in EU Leadership in Energy and Environmental Governance
Book Chapter in A ONU aos 70: contribuições, desafios e perspectivas [The UN at 70: contributions, challenges and perspectives]
Book Chapter in Legacies of Empire: Imperial Roots of the Contemporary Global Order
Journal Article in Conjuntura Austral
Popular Article in ATHA.SE
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
Popular Article in Dagsavisen
Journal Article in Contexto Internacional
Popular Article in NRK Ytring
Popular Article in Correio Braziliense
Popular Article in Revista Forum
Report - Other
Journal Article in Third World Quarterly
Popular Article in Aftenposten
Journal Article in Government Gazette