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Dr Barbara Magalhães Teixeira
Researcher
Dr Barbara Magalhães Teixeira
Dr Barbara Magalhães Teixeira is a Researcher in the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her research explores the intersections between climate and environmental crises, conflict, and security, with a focus on pathways to sustainable peace. Her work examines issues of development, natural resource governance, extractivism, sustainable production and consumption, the green transition, and land and water conflicts, particularly in agrarian settings in Latin America and the Global South.
In 2024, she defended her doctoral thesis, “The Nature of Peace and the Continuum of Violence in Environmental Conflicts,” at Lund University in Sweden.
Subject expertise
Development; natural resource governance; extractivism; green transition; land and water conflicts; agrarian conflicts; peace processes
Regional expertise
Latin America; Sub-Saharan Africa; Global South
CONTACT Dr Barbara Magalhães Teixeira
Languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Swedish
Education
PhD in Political Science, Lund University (Sweden); MSc in Peace and Conflict Studies, Uppsala University (Sweden); BA in International Relations, PUC Minas (Brazil)
External publications
- Magalhães Teixeira, B., and Nicoson C., Transforming environmental peacebuilding: addressing extractivism in building climate resilient peace, Ecology & Society (2024).
- Magalhães Teixeira, B., The Global South as a theoretical and methodological marker for scientific inquiry: researching and teaching decolonial peace, Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, (May 2024).
- Magalhães Teixeira, B., Room to Grow and the Right to Say No: Theorising the Liberatory Power of Peace in the Global South, Geopolitics (Jan 2024).
- Nicoson, C., Magalhães Teixeira, B., and Mårtensson, A., Re-imagining peace education: Using critical pedagogy as a transformative tool, International Studies Perspectives, (Nov 2023).
- Magalhães Teixeira, B., “The environment of lasting peace: natural resources and climate change in peace negotiations”, in: Swain, A, Öjendal, J, and Jägerskog, A (eds) Handbook of Security and the Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing (May 2021).
- Magalhães Teixeira, B., Underdevelopment, extractivism, and conflict in the Global South and the role of systemic alternatives, Conjuntura Austral 12(59), (Aug 2021).
- Nilsson, D., Svensson, I., Magalhães Teixeira, B., Martínez, L., and Ruus, A., In the Streets and at the Table: Civil Society Coordination during Peace Negotiations, International Negotiation 25(2), (May 2020).
- Magalhães Teixeira, B., Water and climate change: a sign of war or a chance for cooperation?, Conjuntura Internacional 14(2), (2018).