Cebrap is a globalized research center, with long-term international partnerships with research institutes, universities, funding agencies, and civil associations, mainly in the United States and Europe, but also from India, Africa, China, and Latin America.

Currently, Cebrap conducts ongoing research on citizenship, elections, political institutions, participation, governance, social movements, socioenvironmental conflicts, public policies on health and education, affirmative action and racial inequality, demographic changes, urban growth and mobility, metropolitan poverty and vulnerability, labor market, development, technological innovation, civil, social, reproductive and cultural rights, South-South cooperation, youth, religion, history, philosophy, law and moral.

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