Institute of International Relations
University of São Paulo
The Multidimensional Security School closes its 2024 activities with a lecture on organized crime
Speakers, from left to right: Lincoln Gakiya, Fabio Bechara, Leandro Piquet, and Marta Saad
The Multidimensional Security School held its closing ceremony for 2024 activities on December 10, in the Congregation Hall of the Institute of International Relations.
The conference "The Great Convergence: Organized Crime and Infiltration in Production Chains in Brazil," given by prosecutors Lincoln Gakiya and Fabio Bechara, members of the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime of the São Paulo State Public Prosecutor's Office and advisors to ESEM, featured comments by Professor Marta Saad of the USP Law School and deputy coordinator of ESEM.
Gakiya and Bechara analyzed the current situation of organized crime in Brazil, highlighting the process of convergence between legal and illegal markets and the infiltration of criminal organizations into the country's production chains. These phenomena are directly linked to new forms of money laundering and the capture of businesses in the transportation, civil construction, fuel, and private investment fund sectors, among others. According to Gakiya, “criminals are looking for a slice of the legal market to profit and leverage businesses with illicit money.”
The need to redefine the State's response strategies to the threat posed by organized crime and phenomena such as new technologies in the area of finance was also discussed. One of the responses suggested was to overcome the departmentalized work model and the difficulties of sharing data and information between agencies in the security and justice system.
After the lecture, the coordinator of the Multidimensional Security School, Professor Leandro Piquet Carneiro, thanked the funders of the initiatives carried out by ESEM in 2024: PMI Impact, CropLife Brasil, AB InBev Foundation, Fundação Brava, and FAPESP. The event saw the announcement of the creation of the program “Infiltration of Production Chains by Criminal Organizations in Brazil and the Americas,” which aims to develop research, workshops, courses, seminars, and policy briefs with recommendations for public policies against the threat posed by organized crime.
We invite everyone to attend the In-Person Seminar: The Great Convergence: Organized Crime and Infiltration in Production Chains in Brazil.
Description: The seminar will feature speakers Lincoln Gakiya and Fábio R. Bechara, comments from Professor Marta Saad, and mediation by Professor Leandro Piquet, coordinator of ESEM-USP.
During the seminar, the speakers will analyze the current situation of organized crime in Brazil. The event is free and open to the interested public. To register, simply click on the poster below:
On November 21, 2024, the current holder of the José Bonifácio Chair, former French Minister of Justice CHRISTIANE TAUBIRA, held the first working meeting with the Research Group she will coordinate at the José Bonifácio Chair in 2024 and 2025. The meeting took place in the Congregation Room of the Institute of International Relations (IRI) at the University of São Paulo (USP).
The José Bonifácio Chair is a USP research support program that each year welcomes a prominent figure from the Ibero-American region to guide academic activities on a topic of current relevance. Originally from French Guiana, the professor chose Amazonian society as her research topic, giving her project the title “Sociétés amazoniennes, diverses et plurielles: un espace partagé; un destin commun?” (Amazonian societies, diverse and plural: a shared space; a common destiny?).
Comprising 56 researchers, the vast majority of whom are young students from different USP graduate programs, the Research Group was formed based on the affinity of its members' research projects with the theme indicated by the Professor. Conducting its activities in French, the Professor's native language, the Research Group will hold regular meetings with Christiane Taubira in late 2024 and throughout 2025 to examine the set of elements of Amazonian reality included in the study program she has established.
Besides impacting the production of dissertations and theses, this reflection will result in the publication, in the second half of 2025, of the annual volume of the José Bonifácio Chair collection, with articles written by members of the Research Group and personalities invited by the Chair. Intended as USP's contribution to the debates surrounding COP 30, scheduled to take place in November of the same year in Belém do Pará, the book will join the 11 previous volumes of the Chair's collection, which constitute a substantial and up-to-date repository of studies on Ibero-America, all freely accessible at https://www.livrosabertos.edusp.usp.br/edusp/catalog/category/relacoes-internacionais
Prof. Pedro Dallari, Dean of IRI-USP, and Christiane Taubira, Professor of the José Bonifácio Chair
Prof. Pedro Dallari, Dean of IRI-USP, and Christiane Taubira, Professor of the José Bonifácio Chair
Researchers from the José Bonifácio Chair
Researchers from the José Bonifácio Chair
We invite everyone to the Permanent Forum on Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, which will take place on Thursday, November 21, 2024, at 11:00 a.m.
The event will be hybrid, held in the Frederico Steidel room at the Faculty of Law, and can be accessed live on YouTube at "//www.youtube.com/@direitointernacionalecompa9513/streams" - DIN channel. The lecture will be recorded and later made available on the Forum channel (Forum no YouTube).
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