Brazil

Research Professor
Jørgen Carling

Research Director
Kristian Hoelscher

Research Director
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

Research Director
Siri Aas Rustad

Senior Researcher
Pinar Tank

18/12/2019
The Crime-Reducing Effect of Education - Funding in Place for Project

Can governments reduce violent crime by increasing education, and if so, under what conditions?

Mauricio Rivera has received FINNUT funding from the Research Council of Norway for the 4-year project The Crime-Reducing Effect of Education: Disaggregating Education and Impact on Violent Crime (CREED). Congratulations to Mauricio and his project team, which includes Kendra Dupuy (PRIO), Kristian Hoelscher (PRIO), Gudrun Østby (PRIO), Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Essex & PRIO), Barbara Zarate-Tenorio (Essex & Institute for Social Research), as well as Ernesto Cardenas (Universidad Javeriana).

11/03/2016
PRIO and NCHS researchers publish in Brazil

PRIO and NCHS researchers Eric Cezne, Maria G. Jumbert and K ristin B. Sandvik have recently co-authored the article entitled Drones como Veículos para a Ação Humanitária: Perspectivas, Oportunidades e Desafios [Drones as vehicles for humanitarian action: perspectives, opportunities and challenges] in the Brazilian journal Conjuntura Austral.

Published in Portuguese and an output of the research project Brazil’s Rise to the Global Stage (BraGS), the article addresses the deployment of drones for humanitarian action. By analyzing the deployment and functions acquired by these vehicles at the global level, the article critically discusses and scrutinizes the increasingly frequent narratives linking drones as vehicles for humanitarian action and seeks to contribute and offer some inputs to the ongoing emerging drone debate in Brazil.

The article can be read in full here (available only in Portuguese).

21/05/2015
Homicide Monitor launches with PRIO on board

A new and interactive data visualization of global homicide data, the Homicide Monitor provides key insights into the nature of violence around the world.

Paulo Esteves(ed.), Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert & Benjamin de Carvalho (eds.) (2020)
Status and the Rise of Brazil: Global Ambitions, Humanitarian Engagement and International Challenges

Edited Volume

Eduarda Hamann & Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (2020)
Brazil’s Evolving "Balancing Act" on the Use of Force in Multilateral Operations: From Robust Peacekeeping to "Responsibility While Protecting"

Book Chapter in Status and the Rise of Brazil: Global Ambitions, Humanitarian Engagement and International Challenges

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert & Torkjell Leira (2020)
A Brief Moment in History or the Beginning of a New Trend? Brazil’s Emerging Humanitarian Engagement in a Broader Context

Book Chapter in Status and the Rise of Brazil Global Ambitions, Humanitarian Engagement and International Challenges

Kristian Hoelscher & Siri Aas Rustad (2019)
CSR and social conflict in the Brazilian extractive sector

Journal Article in Conflict, Security and Development

Torkjell Leira (2018)
Brazil’s International Humanitarian Engagement: The Missing NGO Channel

PRIO Policy Brief

Kristian Hoelscher (2017)
Institutional Reform and Violence Reduction in Pernambuco, Brazil

Journal Article in Journal of Latin American Studies