Is Brazil a Peace Promoter? Conflict Resolution in Brazil’s Foreign and Security Policies

• In Event: International Security: Old or New Affairs? II

Abstract

This paper looks at Brazil’s role in recent international conflicts at the international and regional level. The aim is to answer the following questions: What is the particular place of conflict prevention within Brazil’s international policies? Under which conditions Brazil will be more inclined to effectively implement conflict resolution policies as part of its diplomacy? The first part of the article examines the policies and practices of Brazil´s diplomacy within this area, specifically assessing the following: a) Brazil´s responses to recent international conflicts and humanitarian crisis such as Libya Syria. B) Brazil´s role in conflict resolution in crisis in Latin America, especially through UNASUR. The second part seeks to understand what are the determinants to understand Brazil’s foreign and security polies when comes to respond to international and regional crisis and its potential to get involved in conflict resolution.

Author

• Claudia Fuentes Julio, PUC-Rio de Janeiro