We would like to inform that today\u2019s event, on the 26th at 4:00 p.m., will take place at IRI: PUC-Rio Campus, G\u00e1vea, Vila dos Diret\u00f3rios, Department of International Relations.<\/p>\n
Organized by GSUM \u2013 Global South Unit of Mediation, part of the BRICS Policy Center | PUC-Rio, this dialogue aims to foster a critical discussion on violence, space, sovereignty, and resistance, drawing on experiences and perspectives from the Global South.<\/p>\n
Drawing on contemporary struggles in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and North Africa, the event will bring together discussions on urbicide, borders, coloniality, resistance, and political futures. The discussions will explore how forms of violence cut across not only bodies but also territories, the infrastructures of collective life, and possibilities for political existence.<\/p>\n
The event will feature Azadeh Sobout (Queen\u2019s University Belfast). Azadeh Sobout is a postdoctoral researcher at Queen\u2019s University Belfast. She is an Iranian activist, writer, and educator whose career is rooted in more than a decade of organizing and activism around struggles for refugee justice, indigenous sovereignty, Palestinian liberation, and feminist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist futures.<\/p>\n
Zaynab El Bernoussi (The Africa Institute \/ Global Studies University, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) will also participate, discussing 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.<\/p>\n
Moderated by Andr\u00e9a Gill, President of ABRI\u2014Brazilian Association of International Relations\u2014and professor at UFRJ.<\/p>\n
June 26, 2026 | 4:00 p.m.
\nVila dos Diret\u00f3rios, PUC-Rio | Department of International Relations | PUC-Rio Campus \u2013 Rua Marqu\u00eas de S\u00e3o Vicente, 225, G\u00e1vea, Rio de Janeiro<\/p>\n