Moara Assis Alves Salzedas Crivelente

Moara Assis Crivelente received her PhD in IR – International Politics and Conflict Resolution (with praise and distinction, 2024) and her MA degree in Peace, Security, and Development Studies (2022) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and has an Advanced Degree in Communication of Social and Armed Conflicts from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She has also worked as a junior and post-doctoral researcher in two EU Horizon projects and taught IR at the University of Coimbra.

Her research and practice bridge political theory, historical materialism, critical participatory methods, and Global South. She is engaged in academic and transnational networks with social movements, political parties, national liberation movements, governments and intergovernmental groups, such as BRICS. A director of a Brazilian peace organization, she has coordinated solidarity work across continents around human rights and self-determination, including in the United Nations.