The Role of the Brazilian Marines in Human and Environmental Security by Admiral Carlos Chagas Vianna Braga
Speaker: Admiral Carlos Chagas Vianna Braga, Commander of the Brazilian Navy Marine Corps
The Brazilian Marine Corps (BMC), as strategic expeditionary force in readiness, operates seamlessly across the four fields of Brazilian Naval Power: Naval Defense, Maritime Security, Support to State Actions, and Naval Diplomacy—with emphasis on amphibious, riverine, littoral, and force protection operations. This theoretical and practical approach addresses BMC contributions to human and environmental security by highlighting activities conducted in all seven categories of human security (economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community and political).
About the speaker
Admiral Carlos Chagas Vianna Braga is the Commandant of the Brazilian Marine Corps. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and a master’s degree in Military Studies from the United States Marine Corps University (MCU). His extensive field experience includes serving in Haiti as assistant to the first MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) Force Commander; the coordination of the Marine Corps forces during the occupation of Rio de Janeiro communities, in 2010; and Chief of Staff of the joint military command responsible for the employment of the Armed Forces in Rio, during the 2016 Olympic Games. He has published extensively in journals, such as “International Peacekeeping”, “Guide du Maintien de la Paix”, and “Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional”.
Chair
Dr Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho is Reader in Brazilian and Latin American Studies in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He also served as a Vice Dean (International) for the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, and Director of King’s Brazil Institute, between 2020 and 2022. He specialises in Latin American and Brazilian Armed Forces, with reference to historical and contemporary issues. In 2022, Vinicius created the Observatory of Democracy in Latin America (KODLA), and he is also an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Strategic Studies of the Brazilian Navy.
At this event
Reader in Brazilian and Latin American Studies
Lecturer in Environmental Security
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