Prof. Monica Herz, coordinator of the Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM), participated in a meeting of the Academic Advisory Council on Mediation, at the Université de Montréal, on 30-31 January 2017.
"We invite you all to the next event of our laboratory. The colloquium will be presented by BRICS Policy Center's fellow, Maria Nagawa"
Represented by its General Supervisor, Prof. Paulo Esteves, the BRICS Policy Center participated on the “T20 Africa Conference: Building alliances for sustainable development” that was held on February 01st and 02nd, 2017, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
On February 22nd, 2017, the BRICS Policy Center (BPC) held the workshop “Finanças Climáticas, Desenvolvimento, Pobreza e Desigualdade: Onde estamos e para onde vamos?”. The event was an initiative of the Socio Environmental Platform of BPC, the Public Interest Management (GIP) and Development Initatives (DI) and had the participation of Rafael de Soler, from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mariela di Ciommo, from DI, Alice Amorim, from GIP, Paulo Esteves, General Supervisor of BPC and Maureen Santos, from the Socio Environmental Platform.
On March 9th and 10th, 2017, the Laboratório de Estudos em Economia Política da China (LabChina) and the International Political Economy Graduation Programme of the Economy Institute of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro jointly organize the conference "Economia Política do Desenvolvimento da China"
The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) is launching the Oslo Forum Peacewriter Prize, an essay competition seeking bold and innovative responses to today’s peacemaking challenges. Submissions should take the form of an analytical essay relevant to the practice of conflict mediation.
The BRICS Policy Center has the pleasure to invite to the colloquium "O Poder das Percepções e o Brasil no Cenário Internacional", to be held on April 11th, 2017, at 4 p.m at the Center's library. The event is based on the work of Débora Terra (Universidade de Lisboa), a visiting researcher at BPC through the program Power and Region in a Multipolar World (PRIMO). The colloquium will have the participation of Prof. Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, from the International Relations Institute of PUC-Rio, as discussant.
The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States is an example of the rise of conservative nationalist-populist governments in the world. Such a scenario challenges the very principles of Brazilian Foreign Policy, but also allows for new opportunities concerning the countrie's expansion of influence for the next years.
Between April 29 and May 1, 2017, in Lima, Peru, GSUM researchers will participate in the Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), whose theme will be ‘Dialogues of Knowledge’.
From May 8th to 10th, 2017, the 2017 ECOSOC Integration Segment will be held at the United Nations’ headquarter in New York. The event will count with the presence of the General Supervisor of BRICS Policy Center, Prof. Paulo Esteves.
