At this page you will find my writings, research papers, activities, and a repository of texts, as well as books and other materials related to my areas of interest. This virtual place aims to provide a comprehensive overview of my scholarly and intellectual pursuits across various topics.
Rui Samarcos Lora
Visiting Researcher at the University of Alicante, former Research Fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal and SYLFF Fellow of Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Master in International Relations and European Studies, Specialist in Political Science by the University of Brasilia (UnB), and Bachelor in International Relations at the Universitary Center of Brasilia (UniCEUB). He was international advisor at the Brazilian Government in Agricultural Affairs and currently is Ph.D. Candidate at the Center for Social Studies (CES)/ Faculty of Economy (FEUC) at the University of Coimbra and member of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College.
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My research focuses on the intersection of cooperativism and local peacebuilding. By engaging with concepts such as the local turn, everyday peace, and hybrid peace, I examine how community agents and grassroots structures contribute to sustainable development and conflict mediation at the micro-level. This perspective highlights the role of ordinary actors in negotiating stability amidst broader structural tensions.
This interest extends into responsive communitarianism, which I view as an interdisciplinary outgrowth of cooperativism. I explore how communal associations foster social cohesion, using Freemasonry as a key case study. Conceptualized as a historical guild, Freemasonry offers an interesting lens for observing the cultivation of everyday peace and the emergence of hybrid forms of social order.
To deepen this analysis, I draw meta-theoretically on frameworks from Kabbalah. Its insights into ethical and symbolic order provide a powerful tool for illuminating how philosophical traditions can inform the local turn in peace studies. Ultimately, this approach seeks to bridge the wisdom embedded in ritualized community practices with the contemporary dilemmas of social fragmentation and peaceful coexistence.
Contact
Observatorio Ibero-Americano de Estudos Maçônicos e Ciências Antigas
Núcleo Alicante, España
ruisamarcos@gmail.com
Instituto Roy Luria
(Sod 22)
Coimbra, Portugal
roiy.luria@gmail.com
https://roi-luria.webnode.pt/
Portal Masonica
secretaria@masonica.com.br
www.masonica.com.br