Natália da Costa Pereira Bueno (741E-88C4-C0ED)

Curriculum Vitae

Natália da Costa Pereira Bueno

Natália Bueno is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. She is currently working on the project “REINTEGRA – Reviewing the impact of amnesty in the reintegration of ex-combatants: A bottom-up view of the case of Mozambique”, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2023-2029) and the project “Visibilising marginalised Early Career Researchers in Peace, Conflict and Security Studies”, funded by the British Academy. Formely, she worked as an assistant professor at Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra and at Lusíada University (Porto). Natália also served as a postdoctoral researcher of “CROME” – Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times – at CES, and as a country expert in the Global Leadership Project, University of Texas at Austin. Natália holds a PhD in International Politics and Conflict Resolution from the University of Coimbra (CES/FEUC), a Master’s degree in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a Bachelor's in International Relations from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). She is also a former visiting researcher at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University, at the German Institute of Global and Areas Studies (GIGA), and at the Center for African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University. She is currently the co-editor of the special issue “Peace and Democracy: Views from the Global South”, Frontiers in Political Science. Natália’s research has been published in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals such as Conflict, Security & Development, Memory Studies, African Studies Review, among other journals. Besides these peer-reviewed articles, she has also contributed to renowned popular outlets such as the blog Africa is a Country and the newspaper Expresso.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Natália da Costa Pereira Bueno

Citation names

Bueno, Natália

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 741E-88C4-C0ED
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0461-0087
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=spRJtMoAAAAJ

Email addresses

nataliabueno@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) - Colégio da Graça, Rua da Sofia, nº 136-138, 3000-389, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://ces.uc.pt/pt/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/natalia-bueno (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Political Sciences
Social Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018/05/28 Concluded	Relações Internacionais - Política Internacional e Resolução de Conflitos (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal "Reconciliation in Mozambique Revisited" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado com distinção e louvor
2016 - 2016 Concluded	Teaching Peace in the 21st Century: 8th Annual Summer Institute for Faculty (Outros) Major in Peace Studies Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, United States
2009/04/01 - 2009/06/30 Concluded	Training and Research Program in the areas of Human Rights, Humanitarian Issues, Migration and the Environment (Outros) Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations, United States
2007/09/01 - 2008/10/01 Concluded	MSc in Comparative Politics (Mestrado) Major in Latin America London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom "Lula: understanding the continuum of reforms and Cardoso´s economic policy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Merit
2003 - 2007 Concluded	Relações Internacionais (Licenciatura) Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Franca, Brazil "O Papel da ONU na Construção da Paz: o caso da Guatemala (1994/2004)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	9,67 ou 19,34

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/08 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2018/01/09 - 2022/01/31	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2020/02/03 - 2020/03/03	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

2015/09 - 2018/08	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, United States

2017 - 2017	Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	University of Texas at Austin, United States

2015/05 - 2015/08	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

2015/02 - 2015/05	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien Fachbibliothek Afrika, Germany

2014/08 - 2014/12	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Universidad de Buenos Aires Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Argentina
2008/09/01 - 2009/12/30	Research Trainee (Research)	Canning House, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09/01 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2022/02/01 - 2023/08	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Lusíada Porto Faculdade de Direito, Portugal

2022/02/01 - 2022/08/31	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023 - Current	REINTEGRA: Reviewing the impact of amnesty in the reintegration of ex-combatants: A bottom-up view of the case of Mozambique 2022.00657.CEECIND Researcher Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2024 - 2026	Visibilising marginalised Early Career Researchers in Peace, Conflict and Security Studies : A Writing and Publishing Workshop for scholars from the Global South 277297 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)	The British Academy Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/09/01 - 2022/02/01	Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/715593/EU Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Commission Concluded
2014 - 2018	Reconciliation in Mozambique Revisited SFRH/BD/96941/2013 PhD Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Bueno, Natália. Reconciliation Operationalized in Mozambique: Charting Inclusion, Truth and Justice, 1992-2022. United States: Lexington Books. 2024. Published
Book chapter	Bueno, Natália. "Transitional justice mechanisms and memory. A look into Mozambique's liberation war narrative.". In The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past, edited by Cardina, Miguel, 145-159. Routledge, 2024. Published • http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003396925-10 Bueno, Natália. "Justiça de Transição e Memória. Um Olhar Sobre a Narrativa da Luta de Libertação em Moçambique". In A Guerra Colonial Portuguesa e as Lutas de Libertação Africanas. Coimbra, Portugal: Coleção CES, 2024. In press Bueno, Natália; Martins, Bruno Sena. "A Luta de LIbertação e as Políticas do Heroísmo em Moçambique: Os Veteranos de Guerra e os Avessos da Memória". In A Guerra Colonial Portuguesa e as Lutas de Libertação Africanas. Coimbra, Portugal: Coleção CES, 2024. In press Bueno, Natália; Maschietto, Roberta H.; Stringer, Samantha. "Reflexões sobre o Processo de Reconciliação em Moçambique". In Histórias & Políticas em Contextos Africanos, edited by Fiorotti, Silas; Alfieri, Noemi; Adão Miguel, Oliveira; Nascimento, Washington. Brazil: Autobiografia, 2023. Published Natália Bueno; Bruno Sena Martins. "The liberation struggle and the politics of heroism in Mozambique". 2023. 10.4324/9781003396925-4 Bueno, Natália; Weimer, Bernhard. "Paz e Reconciliação em Moçambique: Conjunturas Críticas e Dependência da Trajectória [Peace and Reconciliation in Mozambique: Critical Junctures and Path Dependence]". In Desafios para Moçambique 2020 [Challenges for Mozambique 2020], edited by Forquilha, Salvador, 65-96. Maputo, Mozambique: Marimbique, 2020. Published Bueno, Natália. "Mocambique em Revisão: uma nova persperctiva sobre o papel da solução moçambicana". In Democratização, memória e justiça de transição nos países lusófonos, 259-288. Rio de Janeiro, Recife: Autografia, EDUPE, 2017. Published
Dictionary entry	Bueno, Natália. "Intervention & Development". In Dicionário de Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais. University of Porto, 2021. Accepted
Journal article	Bueno, Natália. "Different mechanisms, same result: Remembering the liberation war in Mozambique". Memory Studies (2021): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698021995993. Published • 10.1177/1750698021995993 Isabella Alves Lamas; Natália Bueno. "Moçambique e uma guerra que parece não ter fim em Terra Sonâmbula". Revista de Ciências Sociais (2021): https://doi.org/10.36517/10.36517/rcs.52.1.d05. 10.36517/10.36517/rcs.52.1.d05 Bueno, Natália. "Different mechanisms, same result: Remembering the liberation war in Mozambique". (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10316/95702. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698021995993 Natália Bueno. "Devaka Premawardhana. Faith in Flux. Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 232 pp. Notes. Works cited. Index. Acknowledgments. $49.95. Paper. ISBN 9780812249989.". African Studies Review (2020): 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2019.94. 10.1017/asr.2019.94 Bueno, Natália. "Reconciliation in Mozambique: was it ever achieved?". Conflict, Security & Development (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2019.1663037. 10.1080/14678802.2019.1663037 Bueno, Natália. "Provincial Autonomy: The Territorial Dimension of Peace in Mozambique". Giga Focus International Edition 10 (2015): 1-8. https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publication/provincial-autonomy-the-territorial-dimension-of-peace-in-mozambique. Published
Journal issue	Bueno, Natália. "Peace and Democracy: Views from the Global South". Frontiers Political Science (2024): https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/60635/peace-and-democracy-views-from-the-global-south. Under revision • Coeditor
Newsletter article	Bueno, Natália. "Marginalization and Conflict – The Politics of Memory in Mozambique", 2018, https://justiceinconflict.org/tag/natalia-bueno/.
Newspaper article	Bueno, Natália da Costa Pereira. "El gigante despertó", Perfil, 2013, http://www.perfil.com/contenidos/2013/06/23/noticia_0026.html.
Online resource	Bueno, Natália. The end of Mozambique’s two-party system?. 2024. https://africasacountry.com/2024/10/the-end-of-mozambiques-two-party-system.
Thesis / Dissertation	Schenoni, Natália da Costa Pereira Bueno. "Reconciliation in Mozambique Revisited". PhD, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/80191. Bueno, Natália. "Lula: understanding the continuum of reforms and Cardoso's economic policy". Master, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2009.

Other

Other output

Manifestação e greve geral em Moçambique. Radio Interview - TSF. 2024. Bueno, Natália. https://saladeimprensa.ces.uc.pt/index.php?col=noticias&id=46904.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/08/30	Reconciliation in Mozambique: Towards a Pluralistic View	EISA PEC 2024 Lille University (Lille, France)
2023/09	As anistias do passado como fatores de retrocesso democrático? Uma revisão do caso brasileiro e moçambicano.	ABRE LISBOA 2023 (Portugal)
2021/11/30	Transitional Justice and Human Rights: goals and challenges in a historical perspective	Seminar in the PhD Program "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" Center for Social Studies (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/04/06	Different mechanisms, same result: the case of Mozambique	ISA 2021 Annual Convention - Virtual Platform International Studies Association (Virtual event, United States)
2021/03/18	Mecanismos diferentes, resultado semelhante. Lembrando a luta de libertação m Moçambique	Webinar IESE Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE) (Maputo, Mozambique)
2020/03/05	O Processo de Reconciliação em Moçambique: Desafios e Perspectivas	Lecture Universidade Pedagógica (Maputo, Mozambique)
2020/02/26	Rupturas e continuidades: justiça transicional e memória em Moçambique	Seminário CEA Centro de Estudos Africanos , Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Maputo, Mozambique)
2019	Different mechanisms, same result: remembering the Liberation War in Mozambique	Memories of political violence, transitional justice and Europe across time and place: Interdisciplinary perspectives University of Birmingham
2019	The role of the colonial war memories in Mozambique's armed conflicts	Third Annual Memory Studies Association Conference Memory Studies Association (Madrid, Spain)
2019	Different mechanisms, same result: remembering the Liberation war in Mozambique	New Research on the History, Culture and Politics of Mozambique University of Leeds (Southampton, United Kingdom)
2018	Reconciliation in Mozambique Revisited	ISA 59th Annual Convention "Power of Rule and Rule of Power" International Studies Association (San Francisco, United States)
2017	Inclusion: a necessary condition for reconciliation: the case of Mozambique	60th Annual Meeting of the ASA, Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa African Studies Association (Chicago, United States)
2017	Reconciliation and its subtypes	ISA 58th Annual Convention, Understanding Change in World Politics International Studies Association (Baltimore, United States)
2016	Reconciliation in Mozambique: has amnesty facilitated it?	59th Annual Meeting of the ASA `Imagining Africa at the Center: Bridging Scholarship, Policy, and Representation in African Studies African Studies Association (Washington, DC)
2016	Reconciling with the past? The infuence of the Mozambican traditional healing processes	Knowing Africa: The Power of Narrative on a Global Continent Northwestern University (Evanston)
2016	The contradictions of Liberal Peace: Amnesty in Mozambique	ISA 57th Annual Convention International Studies Association (Atlanta, United States)
2015	The space of memory in post-confict societies: the infuence of Amnesty laws	COST Action IS1205 Conference Uniersity of Pécs (Pécs, Hungary)
2015	Reconciliação em Moçambique: as Memórias pelas Lentes da Amnistia	V Colóquio Internacional de Doutorandos do Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) Coimbra University (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014	Reconciliation in Mozambique the infuence of postmemory	Conference Resisting war in the 20th century University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/01/10 - Current	Conceções Sobre Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva em Moçambique: Influencia das crenças culturais na tomada de decisões das raparigas nas províncias de Nampula e Inhambane Co-supervisor	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019 - Current	Moçambique e a memória da guerra civil: um olhar sobre o papel dos partidos políticos no processo de reconciliação nacional Co-supervisor	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/11/04 - 2024/11/04	Visibilising Marginalized Early Career Researchers in Peace, Conflict and Security Studies: A Writing and Publishing Workshop for Scholars from the Global South - First Virtual Workshop (2024/11/04 - 2024/11/04) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/04/01 - 2019/09/30	Section Chair at the 13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (2019/09/11 - 2019/09/15) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	European International Studies Association, Czech Republic

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2018 - Current	CES vai à Escola (CES goes to School) Other	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/03/26 - 2019/03/28	International Studies Association's Emerging Global South Scholar Workshop Workshop	International Studies Association, United States

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021/06/03 - Current	IPRI - NOVA
2021/03/03 - Current	Memory Studies
2019/02/01 - Current	International Studies Review
2019/01/02 - Current	Journal of Peace Research

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2018 - Current	Memory Studies Association	Member
2016 - Current	European International Studies Association	Member
2015 - Current	American Political Science Association
2015 - Current	African Studies Association	Member
2013 - Current	Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política	Member
2012 - Current	International Studies Association	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2024/10 - Current	"CES go to School" is an outreach programme of CES, mainly designed for formal and non-formal education contexts, targeting the general public and students under the age of 12. It aims to promote the dissemination of knowledge produced in the social sciences, arts and humanities, in particular by sharing the research work developed at CES and by stimulating critical debates on the main challenges facing contemporary societies. Coordinator	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2019 - 2019	13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations A Century of Show and Tell: The Seen and the Unseen of IR	European International Studies Association

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/11/23 - Current	Transitional Justice and Human Rights: Goals and Challenges in a Historical Perspective	(Doutoramento)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2022/02/15 - Current	International Organizations	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2022/02/15 - Current	Contemporary Perspectives in Peace Studies	(Doutoramento)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2022/02/01 - Current	Theory of International Relations	(Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusíada Porto Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
2022/02/01 - Current	Africa - Political, Economic and Social Issues	(Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusíada Porto Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
2024/03/25 - 2024/03/29	Writers' Workshop "SOAS University of London - Hekima Institue for Peace Studies and International Relations - HIPSIS"	(Postgraduate Certificate)
2021/05/25 - 2021/05/25	Peace and Reconciliation in Mozambique	(Pós-Graduação)	Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Observatório de Relações Exteriores, Portugal Instituto da Defesa Nacional, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2020/11/13	Interview about the ongoing conflict in the northern region of Mozambique, Cabo Delgado	Expresso

Distinctions

Other distinction

2018	Travel Grant ISA's 59th Annual Convention, Portugal
2016	Papers@USA Grant Luso-American Development Foundation, Portugal
2016	Trave Grant Northwestern University, Portugal
2016	Travel Grant ISA's 57th Annual Convention, Portugal