Professor at the Institute of Economics and International Relations
Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
Researches
Ongoing
(2022 – present) The Missing Link: Antagonism, Collective Identities, and the dynamics of civil war
Funding: Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Goal: the research aims to revisit the debate on collective identities in civil wars and offer a new analytical framework, empirically exploring its utility through three case studies (Afghanistan, Bosnia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Finished
(2017-2022) Peace and Hegemony: a critical analysis of the local turn in peacebuilding
Funding: Fulbright Commission and Fundação de Apoio Universitário (FAU-UFU)
Goals: Through Ernesto Laclau’s political theory, the research aims at building a new conceptual framework for analyzing peacebuilding and the Local Turn in particular.
(2014-2015) Budgetary structure, foreign dependency, and security: revisiting statebuilding in Afghanistan
Funding: CAPES
Goals: Using conceptual tools from the public finances and peacebuilding literatures, the research discussed the impacts of the Afghan budgetary system in the statebuilding process in the country (2002-2014).