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Barbara BRAVO
CCDP – Graduate Institute, Maison de la Paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2
Petal 2, 8th floor – Case Postale 136
CH-1211 Genève 21, Suisse
[email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD candidate Anthropology and Sociology of Development, Graduate Institute, Switzerland, 2017
MA Anthropology and Sociology of Development, Graduate Institute, Switzerland, 2014
BA International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, 2012
BA Certificate in International Relations, Georgetown University, USA, 2011
LANGUAGES
English fluent; Portuguese native; French passive knowledge, Spanish intermediate
POSITIONS
Research Assistant at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
Intern at the Permanent Mission of Timor-Leste to the United Nations in Geneva
Teaching Assistant, Department of International Relations at PUC-Rio, Brazil
Research Assistant at the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), Brazil
Intern at Medécins Sans Frontières (Fundraising Department), Brazil
July 2014 – Present
Jan 2014 – July 2014
Feb 2011– May 2012
Feb 2011 – July 2012
Mar 2011 – Dec 2011
AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2013 Award of Best Bachelor Thesis in International Relations of 2012 – “A Securitização da Violência
Urbana: Discursos, Imagens e Percepções do Rio de Janeiro à Luz dos Megaeventos" (Title in
English: “Securitizing Urban Violence: Discourses, Images and Perceptions of Rio de Janeiro in the
Light of Mega Events”), Prêmio Gerson Moura, Brazil
2013 International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) Grant for Emerging Scholars
2013 International Studies Association (PSS-ISA) Conference Travel Grant
2013 American Sociological Association (ASA) Student Forum Award
2012 Bourse D’excellence de la Confédération Suisse (Commission Fédérale des Bourses pour Étudiants
Étrangers - CFBE), 2012-2014.
2011 Best National Academic Paper Prize on Security and Defense awarded by the Brazilian Ministry of
Defense
2010 One-year full merit scholarship for the B.A. Certificate in International Relations at Georgetown
University granted by the Vice-Provost´s Office for Academic Affairs, PUC-Rio, Brazil
2009 Latin American Representative awarded by the United Nations Department of Public Information I
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2007 Four-year full merit scholarship for the B.A. program in International Relations granted by the
Vice-Provost´s Office for Academic Affairs, PUC-Rio, Brazil
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (INVITED AND PEER-REVIEWED)
2013 “Melting Houses into Laurel Wreaths: The Right to the City of Exception – Rio de Janeiro and the
Mega Events”, August, ASA, New York.
2013: “Security for Whom?: Violence and Securitization in Rio de Janeiro”, June, ISA-PSS, Budapest.
2013 “Live and Let It Die: Memory, State and Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, June, IAGS,
Sienna.
2012 “Securitizing Urban Violence: Discourses, Images and Perceptions of Rio de Janeiro in the Light of
Mega Events”, IRI, July, Rio de Janeiro.
2011 “Brazilian Participation in Peacekeeping Operations: from Normative Transformations to Power
Projection”, Ministry of Defense, August, São Paulo
2011 “Transforming the Concept of Security in a World of Emerging Interventionism Norms: the
Brazilian Case”, CNPq, July, Rio de Janeiro.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2013 “Challenging Modernities in Rio de Janeiro: A Critical Analysis of the ‘Pacification’ Project” In:
Batchelor, Peter & Kenkel, Kai (Editor). The state of arms: Consolidation, Innovation and
Relevance in Small Arms Research – Essays in Honor of Pablo Dreyfus. Geneva: Routledge, 2013
(with Paula Drumond)
2011 “A Participação do Brasil em Operações de Paz: da Transformação Normativa à Projeção de Poder
Nacional”, Brazilian White Paper, Brasília: Ministério de Defesa, 2011.
2011 "A Transformação do Conceito de Segurança e as Novas Normas de Intervenção: O Caso
Brasileiro”, Brazilian National Research Council, Brasília: CNPq, 2011.
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