Dr Henrique Garbino

Henrique Garbino is a lecturer at the Department of War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. His research focuses on the dynamics of violence and restraint in armed conflict, explosive weapons, peace operations, civil-military relations, and humanitarian mine action. Henrique holds a PhD in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (2026), an MSSc in Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University (2019); a PGCert in Military History at the University of Southern Santa Catarina (2017); and a BSc in Military Sciences at the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras (2010). Prior to this current position, he served in the Brazilian Army as a combat engineer officer from 2006 to 2017. His experience in the military covered a wide range of different activities, such as explosive ordnance disposal, civil-military coordination, and training and education; in contexts as diverse as border control, law enforcement, and United Nations peace operations. Following his military service, Henrique worked in the fields of humanitarian mine action, disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration of former combatants (DDR), and civil-military coordination in Colombia, Gaza, Haiti, Nagorno-Karabakh, Tajikistan, and Ukraine. Henrique continues to deploy as an explosive ordnance disposal and civil-military coordination specialist for short-term missions with the International Committee of the Red Cross and several United Nations agencies. He is also an Associate Specialist at the Brazilian Network on Peace Operations (2021-) and an Expert at the Forum on the Arms Trade (2023-).