Dialogue: Space, Sovereignty, and Resistance: Critical Dialogues from the Global South

Organized by GSUM – Global South Unit of Mediation, BRICS Policy Center | PUC-Rio, this dialogue proposes a critical conversation about violence, space, sovereignty, and resistance from experiences and perspectives situated in the Global South.

Starting from contemporary struggles in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and North Africa, the event will bring into dialogue debates on urbicide, borders, coloniality, resistance, and political futures. The discussions will explore how forms of violence traverse not only bodies, but also territories, infrastructures of collective life, and possibilities of political existence.

The meeting will bring together Azadeh Sobout (Queen’s University Belfast). Azadeh Sobout is a postdoctoral researcher at Queen’s University Belfast. She is an Iranian activist, writer, and educator whose trajectory is anchored in more than a decade of organizing and acting around struggles for justice for refugees, indigenous sovereignty, Palestinian liberation, and feminist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist futures.

Also participating will be Zaynab El Bernoussi (The Africa Institute / Global Studies University, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), who will discuss sovereignty, borders, and power dynamics from the perspective of the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies and critical approaches to resistance in the Global South.

Moderated by Andréa Gill, President of ABRI – Brazilian Association of International Relations and professor at UFRJ.

June 26, 2026 | 4 PM
BRICS Policy Center Auditorium – Rua das Laranjeiras, 307, 3rd floor, Rio de Janeiro

Note: There will be no translation.