The Center on Democracy and the Armed Forces is an interdisciplinary research group focused on aspects broadly related to the integration of the Armed Forces into structures of democracy and the rule of law. Its members are professors, researchers and students from the Departments of Social Sciences, Law, and History, as well as the Institute for International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).

NEDEFA is affiliated to the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IEAHu), within the dean’s office of the Center for Theology and the Humanities (CTCH) at PUC-Rio.