Peace Studies Group

Research team

Maria Raquel Freire (Coordinator)
Research areas:
Peacebuilding
Russian Federation's internal and external policies and the space of former Soviet Union
Peace operations

Tatiana Gonçalves Moura (Coordinator)
Research areas:
New wars and urban violence
Women, peace and armed conflicts
Peace Studies
Feminism and International Relations

Carla Afonso
Research areas:
Small arms and light weapons and violence against women
Juridical support and psico-social assistance to survivors of armed violence 

Daniela Nascimento
Research areas:
Conflict resolution
Armed conflict in Sudan
Human rights
Humanitarism

Jacqueline Adams
Research areas:
Experiences of the urban poor under dictatorships
Resistance strategies under dictatorship
Dissident art under authoritarian regimes

José Manuel Pureza
Research areas:
New actors and peacebuilding processes
Conflict prevention and management
Global governance
Culture of peace

Katia Cardoso
Research areas:
Urban group violence
Post-colonialisms
Youth in Africa

Mónica Rafael Simões
Research areas:
Human rights
Peacebuilding
Security and development

Paula Duarte Lopes
Research areas:
International governance of hydric resources
Development aid policies
Peace operations

Rita Santos

Research areas:
Violence and small arms and light weapons
Pro-disarmament movements and the global civil society
Media, peace and violence

Sílvia Roque
Research areas:
Violence(s) in post-war contexts
Processes of State construction/collapse
Peacebuilding and the securitisation of international interventions

Teresa Cravo
Research areas:
Democratisation processes in African contexts
Peacebuilding
Post-colonial States