Bruna Dalmas is a graduate student in political science at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on transitional justice mechanisms and their effects on violence in conflicted democracies. Specifically, she investigates how transitional justice can contribute to the organization of security forces, either helping to prevent or potentially exacerbating the escalation of violence, the emergence of paramilitary groups, and the proliferation of drug cartels. As a comparativist from Latin America, her research primarily examines Brazil and Mexico. Bruna earned her B.A. in international business from the Universidade do Vale do Itajaí before joining the University of Missouri. With the support of the Fund for Latino Scholarship, Bruna plans to continue working on data collection and attend the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting to present her research on the selection of transitional justice mechanisms by Latin American countries.
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