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Isabel Simões, Júlia Garraio and Vasco Martins talk with Daniela Nascimento and Paula Duarte Lopes, researchers at the Centre for Social Studies, about the voices of migrations.

Ninth programme of a partnership between Radio Universidade de Coimbra and the Centre for Social Studies (CES), within the scope of the research developed by NHUMEP | Humanities, Migrations and Peace Studies Research Group. This collaboration is conducted through the  programme "Há Vida(s) Nesta Cidade!" and will take place on the last Saturday of each month, starting at 2pm.

The programme can be heard live at https://www.ruc.pt

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Daniela Nascimento has a PhD in International Politics and Conflict Resolution from the University of Coimbra, a bachelor degree in International Relations by the same University and an European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the Inter-European Center for Human Rights and Democratisation. She is a researcher at the Peace Studies Group of the Center for Social Studies and professor at the International Relations Group at the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra where she teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels in International Relations, including the MA in Peace, Security and Development Studies, and the PhD in International Politics and Conflict Resolution (with a performance evaluation of excellent for 2011-2013 and 2014-2016). She is currently Vice-Dean for Post-Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Economics. Her research interests focus on peace studies, human rights, peacebuilding, humanitarian action, especially in the African context and Timor Leste. She has published various chapters and peer-reviewed articles in national and international journals and books, as well as participation in various research projects with national and international funding. Amongs her more recent publications are the book International Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Strategies. The Complexities of war and peace in the Sudans published by Routledge (2017), a chapter on "Una crítica a la construcción de paz liberal desde los derechos humanos. La contribución de los derechos socioeconómicos para la sostenibilidad de la paz" published in 2019 in the book Pax crítica. Aportes teóricos a las Perspectivas de Paz Posliberal organized by Karlos Pérez de Armiño; Iker Zirion ( Editorial Tecnos) and the chapter on "Trials and tribulations: the challenges of building a sustainable state in South Sudan" published in 2020 in the book Limited Statehood and Informal Governance in the Middle East and Africa organized by Ruth Santini; Abel Polese e Robert Kevlihan (Routledge/Taylor and Francis).

Paula Duarte Lopes  is a Researcher on Peace Studies (Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research Group) and an International Relations Professor at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (FEUC). She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University with the thesis Water without Borders. She also has a MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from FEUC. She lectures at the undergraduate and graduate programmes in International Relations, including the Masters in Peace, Security and Development Studies and the PhD in International Politics and Conflict Resolution. She received the 2017 Teaching Award by FEUC. She was the Vice-President of CES Scientific Board (2016-2018). She coordinated the research project "PPWater - Public and private responses to the lack of water supply payments: the Portuguese case" funded by FCT, as well as the team who drafted the Development Education National Strategy (2017-2022). Currently she coordinates the Portuguese team in the project ""e-NOTE - European Network on Teaching Excellence" funded by Erasmus +. Her research interests focus on global interventionism dynamics, including peace missions, development aid politics and international water governance. She conducted research in Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, France, Portugal, Mozambique and Timor-Leste.