Includes index

Introduction: Examining Peace and Violence in Brazil -- Part 1: Understanding Challenges to Peace in Brazil: Conceptual Debates and the Role of the State -- Chapter 1. Peace and Violence in South American: From Security to a Peace Studies Approach -- Chapter 2. Conflict over Peace in the Southern Cone Borderlands: Hybrid Formations of Security Governance from a Brazilian Perspective -- Chapter 3. Contemporary Patterns of Violence and the Inside/Outside Problematique: the Case of Brazil -- Chapter 4. Transnational Organized Crime and the Role of the Armed Forces in Brazil: the Case of Operation Agata -- Part 2: Peaceful Responses to Overcome Social Violence in Brazil -- Chapter 5. The Sustainable Development Goals as a Peace Agenda: Some Considerations of the Brazilian Case -- Chapter 6. Practices to Build Peace in Times of Crisis: Experiences from Northeast Brazil -- Chapter 7. Favela Peace Formation in a Violent State: Perspectives from Favelas in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 8. Gun Policy, Violence, and Peace: Examining the Challenges Faced by Civil Society and the State in Brazil

This edited volume examines how the multiple manifestations of social violence in Brazil impacts the building of a peaceful society. The chapters reflect on the role of state, organized crime and civil society. They provide a unique analysis of how the Brazilian state deals with criminal violence, but also finds challenges to comply with Sustainable Development Goal 16, to interdict police violence, and to provide an efficient gun policy. The book shows the agency of civil society in a violent society, in which NGOs and communities engage in key peace formation action, including advocacy for human rights and promoting arts. The overall aim of this book is to advance the research agenda regarding the intersections between peace, public security, and violence, under the lens of peace studies. In Brazil, the challenges to peace differ markedly from areas in regular conflict. Marcos Alan Ferreira is an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraiba (UFPB), Brazil, Visiting Professor at Universidad Nur, Bolivia, and Research Fellow at Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)