The current international-local scenario presents serious challenges regarding the increasing direct, structural, and cultural violence between states or even within them. In this scenario, the TEIA project, as a theoretical and practical laboratory, aims to train students in the area of Studies for Peace and Conflict Transformation, in order for them to become replicator leaders with the capacity to act locally and internationally. 

* Explaining where the idea for the name came from: "Web-making - teia is a Portuguese noun for web - takes on a purpose in our peacebuilding activity: we wish to establish something that helps shape constructive social change in a given setting. The key to triggering this change and making it successful requires an imagination, new ways of thinking, and the development of processes that weave relationships and connections that create the social spaces that, in turn, form the invisible fabric of human community within and beyond the geography of violence." (LEDERACH, 2011, p.121)