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Reference List

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What references have you used for the report?

Portugal Expert

Francisco Seixas da Costa

Diplomat and Strategic Consultant, Member of the Board of several international companies

Francisco Seixas da Costa is a retired Diplomat currently working as a Strategic Consultant and a Member of the Board of several international companies. He is a Member of the Consultative Council of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and a Member of the Independent General Council of the Portuguese public service broadcaster RTP. He is also a newspaper columnist. Francisco was Secretary of State for European Affairs in the Portuguese government, Executive Director of the North-South Center of the Council of Europe, and a Visiting Professor at several Portuguese universities. As a diplomat, after being posted in Oslo, Luanda and London, he was Permanent Representative to the UN, OSCE and UNESCO as well as Ambassador to Brazil and France. He holds a degree in Political Science and has published books on European and international affairs.

Patricia Magalhaes Ferreira

Independent Consultant, Researcher on development issues and policies, peacebuilding and fragile states

Patricia Magalhaes Ferreira is an independent Consultant and Researcher on development issues and policies, peacebuilding and fragile states. She has worked as a Consultant for the Portuguese Development Cooperation Agency on several projects and studies; conducted development evaluations in Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique; and carried out policy-oriented research, studies and assessments for Portuguese NGDOs as well as European thinktanks and organisations. For more than a decade, Patricia served as a Researcher in the Africa Department of the Institute for Strategic and International Studies (IEEI) in Lisbon. She has published several books and papers on development cooperation, development response to fragile situations, and EU-Africa issues. Patricia holds a PhD in African Studies from the ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon as well as a BA in International Relations and an MA in African Studies.

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Government of Portugal (2009). National Strategy for Security and Development. Council of Ministers Resolution No. 73/2009.

Government of Portugal (2013). Strategic Concept for National Defence (CEDN).

Government of Portugal (2014). Portuguese Concept of Development Cooperation 2014–2020.

Government of Portugal (2015). Operational Strategy for Humanitarian and Emergency Aid. Council of Ministers Resolution No. 65/2015.

Ministry of National Defence (2018). Decree No. 4101/2018 on the Defence External Action and Programming Cycle for Military Defence.

Republic of Portugal (2009). National Defence Law, with changes made by the Organic Law 5/2014 of 29th August.

Republic of Portugal (2019). Decree-Law on the National Authority for Emergency and Civic Protection, Decree-Law No. 45/2019. 1 April 2019.

Interviews carried out at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defence, the National Republican Guard, and Camoes – Institute for Cooperation and Language.

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