Raíssa Caliano

Graduate student in International Relations at IRI/PUC-Rio. She is currently a scientific initiation fellow at the BRICS Policy Center’s Monitoring and Evaluation HUB. She also works as a researcher at the Asia Pacific Studies League (LEAP/PUC-Rio) and as a tutor for the undergraduate extension course Methodology 2. She has worked as a research intern in the Tutorial Education Program at IRI/PUC-Rio and as a research assistant in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Her interests include: Methodologies in International Relations, Social Participation (with an emphasis on projects, programs and policies in the field of development), the Nexus of Conflict and Development, International Mediation, Peace Studies and the International Politics of the Middle East.