'Militarized state' as antithesis to peace? Comparative analysis of the fight against cross-border crimes in Yanomami indigenous territory (2011-2022)

• Grant number: 24/15473-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: February 01, 2025
• End date: February 28, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - State and Government
• Principal Investigator: Luís Alexandre Fuccille
• Grantee: Nathalia Williany Lopes de Sousa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Políticas Públicas e Relações Internacionais (IPPRI). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Yanomami crisis of invasions of indigenous territory due to illegal extractive practices has been a chronic phenomenon since the 1980s, but it peaked again in 2018. Since then, the national security and defense policy for the use of the Armed Forces has faced the challenge of confronting the resurgence of a series of health, socio-environmental, civic, and ethnological violence in the Amazon territory. As a problem identified, the research warns of the worsening of territorial invasions and the increase in crime on the border, in a context of blatant militarization of indigenous and environmental institutions (2019-2022). The study asks: Does a militarized state mean greater security and military defense in its territory? The study proposes an investigation into the management of the crisis in two different governments - in their ideological, partisan nuances, and bureaucratic constitution. The comparative analysis will be between Operation Ágata Fronteira Norte (2011-2016) and Operation Yanomami (2021-2022), two relevant operations coordinated in the face of the emphatic rise of new threats and crimes in Yanomami Territory. As a methodology, the study structures a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), documentary analysis and presents indicators to interpret, based on the mapping of the operations, their normative constitutions, techniques, capabilities and results.