Kai Michael Kenkel
General coordinator
Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio. He holds a PhD and a master’s degree from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales (IUHEI, now IHEID/Graduate Institute) in Geneva. His work on international security, particularly peace operations, intervention norms, and civil-military relations, has been published in journals such as International Peacekeeping, Global Governance, International Affairs, and Global Responsibility to Protect.
Maira Siman Gomes
Academic coordinator
Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio, and PhD in International Relations at the same institute. Masters in International Studies (with emphasis in Political Science) from the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland. She is a “Jovem Cientista do Nosso Estado” grantee from FAPERJ, a Productivity Scholar from CNPq, and a researcher at the Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM, IRI/PUC-Rio). Her areas of research are: Peace and Conflict Studies; Critical Security Studies, Peacekeeping Operations and Foreign Policy Analysis.
Maria Celina D’Araujo
Institutional Relations Coordinator
Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at PUC-Rio. Doctor and Master in Political Science, IUPERJ (1989 and 1981). She was a professor at Cpdoc/Fundação Getúlio Vargas, professor at UFF and visiting professor at some universities in Brazil and abroad. She has worked in the areas of unions and political parties, the Vargas Era, Military Justice, elites and careers in the Executive Power, military and defense. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee of CNPq and Coordinator of the Sociology area at Faperj. CNPq Researcher 1B.
Andrea Schettini
Researcher
Doctor in Law from PUC-Rio in co-tutelle with the University Paris Nanterre. Professor at the Law Department of PUC-Rio and researcher at the Human Rights Center (NDH) of the same institution, where she coordinates the Study and Research Group on the Inter-American Human Rights System (GEP-SIDH). She was a researcher for UNDP in partnership with the Brazilian National Truth Commission and a researcher at the Truth Commission of Rio de Janeiro. Her research topics are human rights, transitional justice, state violence, truth commissions, and international human rights courts.
Carolina de Campos Melo
Researcher
She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a doctoral degree in (International) Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ (2012). She is a professor in the Graduate and Undergraduate Law Programs at PUC-Rio and a researcher at the Human Rights Center (NDH). She has been a Union Attorney (Advocacia-Geral da União) since 2003. She was an Advisor to the Amnesty Commission of the Ministry of Justice (2012-2016) and an advisor/member of the Reporting Committee of the Final Report of the National Truth Commission (2014).
Gisele Cittadino
Researcher
Professor at the Law Department, PUC-Rio. Masters in Law at UFSC and Doctor in Political Science at IUPERJ. IC Research Productivity Scholarship from CNPq. Author of “Pluralismo, Direito e Justiça Distributiva: Elementos da Filosofia Constitucional Contemporânea” (2020).
Larissa Rosa Corrêa
Researcher
Adjunct professor at the Department of History at PUC-Rio, CNPq productivity scholarship, level 2. She holds a degree in History from Unesp (2000), a master’s degree in 2007, with a Fapesp grant, and a doctoral degree (2013), with a Capes grant, in Social History at Unicamp. Among the published books, see: “Anticommunist Solidarity: US-Brazilian Labor Relations During the Dictatorship in Cold War Brazil”, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021; “Disseram que voltei americanizado: relações Brasil-Estados Unidos na ditadura militar”, Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 2017.
Manuela Trindade Viana
Researcher
Professor at IRI/PUC-Rio, where she also holds the position of Coordinator of the Undergraduate Course. PhD in International Relations (IRI/PUC-Rio) and Masters in Political Science (DCP/USP). In her research, she explores the mechanisms through which violence is organized in the world, especially in Latin America, attending to the historical transformations of the penal apparatus invested in the entire spectrum of social behaviors understood as deviant, from common delinquency to terrorism.
Maurício Parada
Researcher
Bachelor in History from UFF (1988), Masters degree in Social History of Culture from PUC-Rio (1994), doctor in Social History from UFRJ (2003), and a post-doctoral internship at IHEAL ( Institut des hautes études de l’Amérique latine) at Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 (2019). He is currently a professor at the History department at PUC-Rio. He has experience in the field of History, with emphasis on social history of culture and intellectual history, working mainly on the following themes: exiles, culture, intellectuals, and national identity.
Monica Herz
Researcher
Monica holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1994). She is currently a professor at the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio. She coordinates the Digital Humanities Laboratory at PUC-Rio. Monica has extensive experience in the field of International Relations, with an emphasis on International Security, working mainly on the following topics: International Politics, International Organizations, International Security, International Relations of Latin America and Brazilian Foreign Policy. She has been a Scientist of Our State at Faperj since 2012 and has a CNPq productivity scholarship.
Paula Drumond
Researcher
Paula Drumond is an associate professor at the Institute of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio). She also serves as deputy coordinator for the Global South Mediation Unit (GSUM) and is a member of the Academic Network of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Paula holds a PhD in International Relations/Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID, Geneva). Her research focuses on gender, peace and security.
Victoria Santos
Researcher
She holds a doctoral (2021) and a master’s degree (2017) in International Relations at PUC-Rio, and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Brasília (2014). She is also a researcher at the Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM), an initiative of the BRICS Policy Center with IRI/PUC-Rio. Research interests include criminal violence, armed conflict, international security, transitional justice and human rights, with an emphasis on Latin America.
Tatiane Moura Amaral
Researcher
Master’s candidate in International Relations from PUC-Rio, bachelor in International Relations from the Federal University of Uberlândia, she works with gender and feminism, Brazilian Armed Forces, and military family. She is interested in concepts of femininity and masculinity in military symbologies; critical military studies; and civil-military relations. She is a member of NEDEFA, of the Global South Unit for Mediation, and of the Feminist Observatory for International Relations.