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Since 2000, a number of “rising powers” have sought a more active global role commensurate with their economic status and regional positions of influence. Brazil, in particular, has followed a high-profile path in seeking to enhance its strategic profile and influence on the international order, even as it faces internal constraints on its capacity to project influence abroad.  “Peacebuilding” is one area where Brazil has sought to exercise global leadership, championing the U.N. Peacebuilding Commission and chairing it in 2015. Brazil’s foreign development cooperation funding almost tripled between 2006 and 2010, and its official technical cooperation with numerous countries of Africa and Latin America—including some conflict-affected states—was promoted as advancing peace as well as development.