Peace and Violence in Brazil

lt;b>Marcos Alan Ferreira, Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil, Visiting Professor at Universidad Núr, Bolivia, and Research Fellow at Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Previously he was Visiting Researcher at University of Manchester, UK, and Uppsala University, Sweden. His articles have been published in top journals like International Studies Perspectives, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Latin American Research Review, Trends in Organized Crime, Journal of Political Science Education, and others. His research is focused on the impacts of organized crime and state violence on peace in Brazil and South America.

Introduction: Examining Peace and Violence in Brazil.- Part 1: Understanding Challenges to Peace in Brazil: Conceptual Debates and the Role of the State.- Chapter 1. Peace and Violence in South American: From Security to a Peace Studies Approach.- Chapter 2. Conflict over Peace in the Southern Cone Borderlands: Hybrid Formations of Security Governance from a Brazilian Perspective.- Chapter 3. Contemporary Patterns of Violence and the Inside/Outside Problématique: the Case of Brazil.- Chapter 4. Transnational Organized Crime and the Role of the Armed Forces in Brazil: the Case of Operation Agata.- Part 2: Peaceful Responses to Overcome Social Violence in Brazil.- Chapter 5. The Sustainable Development Goals as a Peace Agenda: Some Considerations of the Brazilian Case.- Chapter 6. Practices to Build Peace in Times of Crisis: Experiences from Northeast Brazil.- Chapter 7. Favela Peace Formation in a Violent State: Perspectives from Favelas in Rio de Janeiro.- Chapter 8. Gun Policy, Violence, and Peace: Examining the Challenges Faced by Civil Society and the State in Brazil.