Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brazil)
1) Organized crime in Brazil and South America, especially the expansion of Brazilian criminal organizations
2) Criminal governance in urban areas
3) Civil society agency (peacebuilding) in violent urban areas
4) Youth agency in violent urban areas
1. FERREIRA, MARCOS ALAN S. V. (2020). Urban Violence and Crime. In: Gezim Visoka; Oliver Richmond. (Org.). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
2. VILLA, R. D. ; BRAGA, C. ; FERREIRA, MARCOS ALAN S.V. (2021). Violent Nonstate Actors and the Emergence of Hybrid Governance in South America. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW, v. 56, p. 36-49.
3. FERREIRA, MARCOS ALAN; RICHMOND, O. (2021). Blockages to Peace Formation in Latin America: The Role of Criminal Governance. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, v. 15, p. 1-21.
4. Ferreira, M.A. (2021) Governance by Violent Non-state Actors as a Challenge to Sustainable Peace in Brazil In: Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene. Springer Publisher. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62316-6_17
5. Sampo, C. & Ferreira, M.A. (2020) De la fragmentación de las estructuras criminales a una proto-mafia: un análisis del Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) en Sudamérica. Revista de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional, v. 6, p. 101-115.
6. Meneguetti, A.I & Ferreira, M.A. (2020) Transnational Gangs in South America: the expansion of Primeiro Comando da Capital to Paraguay. Urban Crime. An International Journal, v. 1, p. 29-53.
7. Ferreira, M.A. (2019) Brazilian criminal organizations as transnational violent non-state actors: a case study of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). Trends in Organized Crime 22, 148–165.
8. De Souza Framento , R. & Ferreira, M.A. (2020) Atores não-estatais violentos transnacionais na América do Sul um exame dos casos do Primeiro Comando da Capital e da Família do Norte. Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública.
Complete list in: https://ufpb.academia.edu/MarcosAlanFerreira