A joint research seminar between the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN), and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at FSI.

Title: Understanding Police Use of Lethal Force in Rio de Janeiro

Speaker: Professor Beatriz Magaloni

Discussant: Brenna Marea Powell, SCICN

Speaker bio:

Beatriz Magaloni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the Woods Institute of the Environment (2011-2013) and a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development. In 2010 she founded the Program on Poverty and Governance (POVGOV) within the Freeman Spogli Institute’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. There she pursues a research agenda focused on governance, poverty reduction, electoral clientelism, the provision of public goods, and criminal violence. Her research has also concentrated on the politics of authoritarian regimes, democratization, and the dynamics of protest.

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