Camila Braga is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of International Relations (IRI) of the University of São Paulo and the Center for Advanced Studies of Latin America (CALAS) at the University of Costa Rica (regional headquarters). She is a founding member of the Center for Conflict and Peace Studies (PCC) of the University of São Paulo. Doctor in Political Science, with an emphasis on International Politics, from the Postgraduate Program in Political Science at the University of São Paulo (DCP / USP); Master in International Relations of the Postgraduate Program of San Tiago Dantas in International Relations (UNESP / UNICAMP / PUC-SP), in the area of concentration "Peace, Defense and International Security" (2013); and has a degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2009). She is currently a researcher associated with the International Relations Research Center (NUPRI-USP), the Center for Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; and Global Fellow of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS) at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.