André Duffles Teixeira Aranega

André Duffles Teixeira Aranega is a Researcher and Consultant with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in International Relations (IRI/PUC-Rio, Brazil).

Experience in elaborating academic material, participating in academic activities, and providing specialized consultancies in various fields.

His Undergraduate Thesis "Prisioneiros da Oportunidade: Estado, Crime Organizado Transnational (COT) e o Brasil na geopolítica criminal do tráfico de armas de fogo" was nominated to receive the Gerson Moura Prize in the 2021 Edition and was classified as one of the top 5 undergraduate thesis submitted in 2020 at the IRI/PUC-Rio, where he analyzed the role of Brazil in the criminal geopolitics of firearms trafficking at the intraregional level (South America) and interregional level (Americas).

His Master's thesis "The Crime-Geopolitics Nexus and Transnational Environmental Crimes in the Amazon Forest" investigated the prospects for consolidating a promising research agenda - the "crime-geopolitics nexus" - as an eclectic space for the producing scientific studies concerned with the interstice between international relations, organized crime, and geopolitics, as well as the geopolitical role of the Amazon Forest in illicit environmental supply chains.

He was among those selected to join the Youth Consultation preceding the 12th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, which was organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)..

Main research areas: Public Security - International Security - Regional Security - Global Security - International Law - Geopolitics - Globalization - Illicit Trade - Organized Crime - Transnational Crime - International Terrorism - (Anti-)Corruption - Money Laundering - Firearms Trafficking - Arms Control - Environmental Crimes - Climate Change - Compliance - Corporate Investigations - Due Diligence - Technology - Latin America - Eastern Europe.