Directory of Scoville Peace Fellows, 1987-Present

Rebecca Bornstein

Spring 2008 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Kalamazoo College, BA Political Science, 2007

Kingston Reif

Spring 2008 Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Education: University of St. Andrews, M.Litt. International Security Studies, 2007
London School of Economics and Political Science, Msc. International Relations, 2006
Brown University, BA International Relations, 2005

Katarzyna Bzdak

Fall 2007 Fellow, Federation of American Scientists

Education: Columbia University, MA International Affairs, 2007
University of Southern California, BA Political Science and International Relations, 2004

Issues Covered: Small arms and light weapons

Current Activities: Bzdak is the Membership Coordinator and Project Manager of the Energy, Security, and the Environment Initiative with the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles.  In the later capacity she is laying the groundwork for the incipient program by identifying potential task force members, reaching out to relevant media sources, civic and non-profit organizations, and beginning to organize the first task force meeting. 

Danny Hosein

Fall 2007 Fellow, Friends Committee on National Legislation Education Fund

Education: Trinity University, BA Political Science, 2006

Issues Covered: Reliable Replacement Warhead: Presidential candidates’ views on nuclear weapons

Current Activities: Hosein is a Legislative Program Assistant with FCNL's Nuclear Disarmament Program.  He tracks legislative developments related to nuclear weapons and lobbies at the grassroots and congressional levels to promote nuclear reductions and eventual disarmament.  He also edits the FCNL Nuclear Calendar.

Alex Bollfrass

Spring 2007 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: University of California at Berkeley, BA Political Science, 2006

Issues Covered: Chemical and biological weapons

Major Fellowship Activities: Bollfrass focused on chemical and biological weapons.  He wrote “Tests, Arrests Draw Attention to Indian Missiles,” “Iran-Iraq Chemical Warfare Aftershocks Persist,” “Libya Backs Out of CW Destruction Agreement,” “France, Libya Sign Nuclear Desalination Deal,” “Details Bedevil Libyan Grand Bargain,”“GAO Issues Warning on Biodefense Research,” and “Nuclear Material Consolidation Schedule Lags” for Arms Control Today.  He updated and added content to factsheets on a variety of nonproliferation issues.  He wrote “Grounds for Optimism and Action on Chemical Weapons Convention’s 10th Anniversary,” an ACA press release.  He compiled a 27-page bibliography for an ACA Educator’s Guide that will be distributed to professors and covers all arms control aspects.  He wrote two-page summaries of five nuclear weapon states’strategic positions, the status of their weapons programs, and their stances on various treaties and arms control regimes.  He moderated a panel (whose participants included Daniel Ellsberg) on International Nonproliferation at the Think Outside the Bomb conference.

Current Activities Bollfrass is a Research Assistant with the International Security and Nuclear Weapons project at the Henry L. Stimson Center.  He is assisting Barry Blechman by providing research to develop a treaty for the elimination of all nuclear weapons by a date certain.

Richard May

Spring 2007 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: University of Florida, MA International Relations, 2006
California State University, San Bernadino, BA Social Sciences, 2001

Issues Covered: Counterinsurgency; post-conflict reconstruction; Near East and South Asian issues

Major Fellowship Activities: May focused on counterinsurgency, post-conflict reconstruction, and Near East and South Asian issues. He wrote a monograph on the U.S. military’s focus on U.S.-based or multi-national corporations for logistical contracting at the expense of host nation contractors during stability and support operations abroad. He wrote several articles and op-eds for both CDI and other publications. He wrote “Analysis: The 2007 State of the Union Address” for CDI’s Weekly Security Review, “Petraeus: Right Guy, Wrong Time” and “Misdirected Tactics: Counterinsurgency Focus Misses Big Picture in Iraq,” both op-eds in Defense News (the later article was selected by the Council on Foreign Relations as a “Must-Read” for its “seminal analysis and inquiries into foreign policy and national security issues”), “New Justice, No Peace,” an op-ed in the New York Times (reprinted in the International Herald Tribune), “Wasting Money in Iraq” and “Buildup, Not Surge,” both op-eds published by UPI, “Mind the Gap: U.S. Military Structure,” in the International Security Network, and “Opportunity Missed: Logistics Support Contracts with Locals Would Help Stabilize Iraq” in Armed Forces Journal, and was interviewed on Al Jazeera (English) about the surge in Iraq and on Voice of America. He was an invited participant at a conference hosted by the Carr Center for Human Rights of the Kennedy School of Government and the Center for Army Lessons Learned entitled “Escalation of Force,” which sought to resolve the escalation of force tactics of the military with peacekeeping/making operations. He participated in the Carnegie Junior Fellows conference and in the World Security Institute’s board meeting.

Current Activities: May is a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Department of Treasury where he is working as an Intelligence Research Specialist.  He works to provide intelligence analysis to Treasury leadership that allows them to take appropriate actions as it relates to threat finance and counter-terrorism efforts.  In fall 2008 he will begin an MBA program part-time at George Washington University as a recipient of the Iranian Relations and Affairs Fellowship.

Alex Stolar

Spring 2007 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: University of Virginia, BA Foreign Affairs, 2006

Issues Covered: South Asia; space security

Major Fellowship Activities: Stolar worked with Michael Krepon on Stimson’s South Asia Program and Space Security
Project. He factchecked articles and talks by Krepon and coordinated his meetings with Congressional staffers. He co-wrote “What Legacy Will Musharraf Leave?” for the Stimson Center website, which was later reprinted in The News (Pakistan). Stolar wrote “The Implications of Unrest in Pakistan for Nuclear Security,” also for the Stimson Center website and reprinted in Rediff and the Daily Times (Pakistan). That report was quoted in two Pakistani publications and another in France. He scheduled meetings for the Stimson Center’s visiting fellows, first for a Lieutenant Colonel in the Pakistani Army and then for a physicist who is the Chief Scientific Officer at the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority. Stolar attended those meetings with and took notes for the visiting fellow. They attended briefings and meetings at think tanks, the Defense and State Department, and other government agencies, and with Congressional staffers. He also helped organize a meeting hosted by the Stimson Center Space Security Project on a Code of Conduct for Responsible Space-Faring Nations.

Current Activities: Stolar is a National Security Analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation.  He is working on a contract supporting the Cooperative Threat Reduction programs at the Department of State. Before that he provided research support for a Department of Defense agency working on counterproliferation issues.  Following the conclusion of his Fellowship Stolar was hired as a Research Assistant at the Stimson Center and authored a report entitled To The Brink: Indian Decision-Making and the 2001-2002 Standoff.
  

Julia Fitzpatrick

Fall 2006 Fellow, Citizens for Global Solutions

Education: University of Notre Dame, BA Political Science and Peace Studies, 2006

Issues Covered: Darfur; UN peacekeeping  

Major Fellowship Activities: Fitzpatrick focused on peacekeeping and Darfur.  She monitored the efforts of the U.S. and others to pressure the Sudanese government to allow for a UN peacekeeping force in the region.  She corresponded with fellow organizational members in the Save Darfur Coalition and attended meetings with other members of the D.C. Darfur advocacy community.  She tracked the progress of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, including the launch of the Peacebuilding Fund and the first Peacebuilding Commission meetings for the Sierra Leone and Burundi cases.  She created a new webpage and wrote and updated numerous content and news pieces for the CGS Darfur Resource Center.  She co-authored a briefing paper on Darfur and the ICC entitled “Darfur and the ICC: Ensuring Accountability,” and created and collected information for CGS “10 Things You Can Do For Darfur” page.  She wrote several pieces for the CGS website, including “International Bodies Discuss Darfur and President Bush Appoints Special Envoy," “Worldwide Events to Mark Global Day for Darfur,” “World Leaders, Celebrities Call for Action on Darfur,” “African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS),” “President Bush Names Special Envoy for Darfur,” “U.N. Resolution Calls for Peacekeeping Troops,” “President Bush Signs Darfur Peace and Accountability Act (DPAA), Issues Executive Order,” “Sudan Agrees "In Principle" to a Stronger Hybrid U.N.-AU Force For Darfur,” “Chad Declares State of Emergency Due to Attacks in Darfur and Eastern Chad,” “Sudanese President Accepts Peacekeeping Package for Darfur, Questions of Size and Strength Remain,” and "Diplomatic Pressure Mounts on Khartoum,” wrote a background paper on Darfur and U.S. policy options, entitled “Crisis in Darfur: Options for U.S. Policy.” She also updated the website with news stories.

She spoke at a George Washington University event on genocide, about the role of the United Nations and the ICC in genocide prevention. Other speakers included staff from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Islamic Congress, Genocide Intervention Network, and Save Darfur Coalition.
She assisted in planning for CGS’ annual meeting entitled “Building a Bipartisan U.S. Foreign Policy for the 21st Century,” and spoke on Darfur policy options and challenges at an issues training workshop entitled “Peace, Security, and Human Rights” for CGS members and participants.  She attended numerous Congressional hearings and policy briefings, including an off-the-record, invitation-only meeting including former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice, and former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake on the topic of “How to Stop the Genocide in Darfur.”

Current Activities: Fitzpatrick is attending Middlebury College's Arabic Language School for an intensive nine-week program in summer 2008.  In 2007-2008 she was a Human Rights Advocacy Fellow working with Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.  After her fellowship she worked as the Peace and Security Program Coordinator at Citizens for Global Solutions.

Travis Sharp

Fall 2006 Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Education: University of San Francisco, BA History and Politics, 2006

Issues Covered: Iran; Iraq; nonproliferation

Major Fellowship Activities: Sharp focused on the Iraq War, Congress, defense budget, and nuclear weapons issues. He founded and was the sole contributor to the Iraq Insider blog, writing nearly 200 posts and attracting over 10,000 page views during his fellowship. He published letters on Iraq in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and helped draft a letter on unsecured fissile material for the New York Times. Sharp’s research on limiting American troop deployments was cited indirectly in a New York Times editorial and directly in a Salt Lake Tribune editorial. His research article “The Audacity of Rearmament: Complex 2030” was published in Foreign Policy in Focus and syndicated in Asia Times Online and Alternatives International. His research article “Moving the Chains: Congress and the War in Iraq” was published in Foreign Policy in Focus. His op-ed “Perspectives: Bloodshed in Iraq” was published in the International Relations and Security Network. His op-ed “No More New Nukes, Please” was published in the Topeka Capital-Journal and syndicated in Counterpunch and Alarab Online. His op-ed with Lt. Gen. Robert Gard “The Flawed Surge” was published in Madrid11.net and syndicated in Middle East Online and Common Dreams.

Sharp wrote a number of analyses for his organization’s website, including: “Analysis of House Strategic Forces Subcommittee Markup: FY2008 Defense Authorization (H.R. 1585),” “Iran and Congress,” “The Folly of New Nukes,” “Risky Business: Why Attacking Iran Is a Bad Idea,” “GOP Senators Voted To Limit Troops in 1990s,” “Analysis of New Iraq Legislation in House and Senate,” “The New Warner Resolution vs. The Old Warner Resolution,” “Troop Surge in Iraq: Just Another Escalation,” “Beyond the Executive Summary,” and “Baker-Hamilton May Be The Catalyst For Change In Iraq.”

Sharp was quoted in a One World news article on Reliable Replacement Warhead that was later syndicated in Common Dreams and Antiwar.com. He was interviewed on War News Radio about the Iraq Parliament’s progress on benchmarks. He was involved in the formation of the Progressive Foreign Policy Breakfast group, served as rapporteur, and was commissioned to write a commentary piece summarizing the group’s findings. He served as primary editor for the “2007 National Security Briefing Book,” a 65-page resource organized by 13 peace and security organizations. He moderated a panel on nuclear weapons and Congress at the 2007 Think Outside the Bomb conference and attended the 2007 Carnegie Junior Fellows Conference and the fall 2006 Peace and Security Initiative conference.

Current Activities: Sharp is the Communications Director and Military Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Council for a Livable World.

Erin Blankenship

Spring 2006 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Education: University of London, MA Conflict, Security and Development, 2008
Trinity University, BA International Studies and Chinese, 2004

Issues Covered: Yucca Mountain nuclear repository; health aspects of energy security

Major Fellowship Activities: Blankenship worked on PSR’s Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository project and its Energy Security programs, and coordinated PSR’s student chapters. She attended Congressional hearings and conferences as well as meetings with NGO staff focusing on nuclear non-proliferation issues, and participated in over twenty Senate and House staff educational meetings with other organization’s representatives. She represented PSR at these meetings and voiced its concerns over the health and security risks posed by the issue. She wrote three factsheets that have been published online and distributed at meetings, “Dealing With Spent Nuclear Waste,” “A New Level of Hazardous Risk,” and “Bringing Hiroshima Home: Concerns for the Transport of Nuclear Waste,” about transport risks, dry-cask storage, and the proposed EPA standards. She wrote an analysis of transportation issues associated with commercial waste at Yucca Mountain that was submitted into the official record for the Supplemental Yucca Mountain Repository EIS scoping to the Department of Energy.

She also focused on a range of PSR’s Energy Security programs. She wrote “Oil’s Impact: The Role of Oil in Health and Security,” a report on the health and security consequences of continued oil dependency, continuing a project started by a former PSR Scoville Fellow. She wrote a second report, not yet published, exploring some of the wider security implications of global oil dependency, focusing on issues such as resource conflict, petroviolence, anti-democratic movements and climate change.

She coordinated the PSR national student campaign entitled “Prescription for a Secure and Healthy World,” which focuses on both nuclear proliferation issues and on global warming and energy security. She created resource materials, including factsheets and two 45 minute PowerPoint presentations, contacted speakers, distributed materials, helped coordinate events in nine states, and helped start Student PSR chapters in Iowa, Missouri, New York, and Wisconsin.

Current Activities: Blankenship received an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from the War Studies Department at King's College, University of London in 2008.  In Fall 2008 she will begin a second MA in International Security Law from the School of Law at King's College, University of London, from which she hopes to graduate in 2009.  She is also a research and editing intern at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London where she works for Mark Fitzpatrick in the Non-proliferation Programme.  She is primarily focusing on Middle Eastern nuclear programmes and North Korea.  She is a member of Chatham House, Women in International Security, and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.  Prior to graduate school she was an energy and security analyst and the national student coordinator at PSR, where she continued the work she did during her fellowship.  She focused on Iran, energy security, oil related-foreign policy, NPT/nonproliferation, global warming, and was the lead organizer for PSR’s 30 national student chapters.  She also volunteered as a research assistant at the Pugwash Conference working on Iran diplomacy, Middle East regional security, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Amy Buenning Sturm

Spring 2006 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Illinois Wesleyan University, BA Political Science & Diplomatic Studies, 2005

Issues Covered: Iraq; Gulf security

Major Fellowship Activities: Sturm worked on the Southwest Asia Regional Security Project as an assistant to Ellen Laipson, the President and CEO of the Stimson Center. Her primary responsibilities were to provide research support to Laipson and the other Southwest Asia staff. She served as the coordinator for the editing of the book Iraq and America: Choices and Consequences.  She attended and took notes at the brainstorming and paper review conferences, provided commentary to her supervisor on the book’s content, and corresponded directly with authors as they submitted their chapters.

She researched and authored “Edging Towards Reform: Kuwait’s Security Sector” and “The Challenge of Holding Iraq Together” for the Stimson Center’s website. She also was a contributing writer and editor for a joint Army-Stimson report “Security Sector Reform in the Gulf,” a publication for the U.S. Army’s Eisenhower National Security Series. In the course of that project she researched and developed an Appendix profiling the militaries of Gulf nations. She reviewed and corrected publications in-house, and provided significant research and publications support to various projects including “Lessons from India: Confronting the Sociological Causes of Terrorism,” “Hurricane Katrina: Managing Multi-Level Complexities;” and “The United Nations in 2015: Some Alternative Futures.”  She wrote brief summaries of Stimson’s programs and their impact on various public and private activities for online publication. Additionally, she served as an initial point of contact with subject matter experts, Ambassadors, diplomats, civil servants, intelligence, and military officials in conjunction with conferences, events, and projects.

She helped plan and organize several conferences, including “Iraq and America: Choices and Consequences Workshop 1,” “Security Sector Reform in the Gulf,” “Iraq and America: Choices and Consequences (Workshop 2),” “The United Nations in 2015 (whose participants included staff from the National Intelligence Council and the U.S. State Department),” and “Hurricane Katrina, Managing Multi-level Complexities," the goal of which was to apply lessons learned from the Katrina disaster to a possible terrorist attack..

Current Activities: Sturm is a Public Affairs Specialist with the U.S. Army Garrison Darmstadt, U.S. Army Europe.  She writes articles and news stories for the Army’s website.  While serving at USAG Darmstadt, she was awarded the Achievement Medal for Civilian Service, as well as 1st Place for Contribution by a Stringer (Writer) in the IMCOM-Europe Keith L. Ware Journalism Award (2007).  In Fall 2008 she will begin an M.A. program in Security Studies at Georgetown University with a concentration in terrorism and substate violence, as a recipient of the Truman Scholarship, which funds graduate study for people interested in careers in public service.

William Huntington

Fall 2005 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: Brown University, BA International Relations and Middle East Studies, 2005

Issues Covered: Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, proposed U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, tactical nuclear weapons issues

Major Fellowship Activities: Huntington focused on the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the proposed U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement, and the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. He wrote several articles for Arms Control Today including “Threat Reduction Program Extends Reach to Ukrainian Biological Facilities,” "Brazilian Regulator Denies Uranium Claims,"  “Czech Uranium Removed,” “Congress Boosts Threat Reduction Funding,” “Congress Amends Iran Nonproliferation Act,” “President Gains Permanent CTR Waiver Power,” “Bush Plans Changes in Threat Programs,” “France, Libya Agree to Nuclear Cooperation,” “U.S. , Libya to Restore Full Diplomatic Relations,” and “Indo-Pakistani Talks Advance.”  He and Miles Pomper interviewed Odair Goncalves, the president of Brazil's Nuclear Energy Commission, and published the interview in ACT.  Huntington wrote a news-analysis piece about the interview and related recent news events entitled “Brazilian Regulator Denies Uranium Claims.”  He also compiled and maintained the Arms Control Association resource page on the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal.    

Current Activities: Huntington is a Legislative Assistant in the office of Rep. Ed Markey where he is working on nonproliferation and foreign policy issues and Executive Director of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation. 

Farah Mahesri

Fall 2005 Fellow, National Security News Service

Education: George Washington University, MA International Affairs, 2007
University of California at Berkeley, BA Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, 2005

Issues Covered: A. Q. Khan smuggling network

Major Fellowship Activities: Mahesri worked on a chronology on the A.Q. Khan network that covers not only Khan's life, but also the names of others persons and companies involved in both the procurement and proliferation of nuclear technology, key moments in history when decisions were made, and investigations into these networks and trials that have occurred over the past several decades. As part of this project, she spoke with experts, including nuclear physicists; regional experts; government agencies and embassies both in the U.S. and abroad; and current and retired government officials. The chronology will be published on the website. Additionally, she researched or investigated several other stories, including examining if there was damage done to Pakistani nuclear sites during the 2005 earthquake; she helped with research on a 60 Minutes story on contracting fraud in Iraq; she also looked into lobby and other records, as well as other stories concerning border security.

Current Activities: Mahesri is a Business Development Associate for the Middle East at Chemonics International.  Chemonics International is an international development consulting firm that works with donor agencies (such as USAID) to implement development projects around the world in every sector from health to economic growth to natural resources management. She works on the business development team, helping to design new projects and prepare bids for donor agencies for the Middle East region.  In 2007 she received an MA in International Affairs with a focus on Conflict Resolution and International Law/International Organizations from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.  She wrote her graduate thesis on Peace-Building in Lebanon through Education Reform.  In summer 2006 she taught English and developing curriculum in a newly rebuilt non-religious school in the earthquake zone in Kashmir, Pakistan.

Victoria Johnson

Spring 2005 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: University of London, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, MS Public Health, 2006
Cornell University, BA Government, 2001

Issues Covered: Cooperative Threat Reduction, biodefense

Major Fellowship Activities: Johnson worked with Libby Turpen on the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) project where she is contributing research for the Pathogens for Peace Initiative to convert former bioweapons facilities in the former Soviet Union to vaccine production facilities for the developing world.  She did background research on International Science and Technology Center projects in Russia that relate to vaccine and drug development, on the most pressing medical needs in the developing world, and on the private pharmaceutical industry in Russia.  She also researched potential international donors that may be interested in underwriting a Canadian bio-redirect project.  She developed background reports about the activities of agencies and NGOs involved in vaccine procurement for developing countries, which will be added to the CTR website.  She interviewed companies across the U.S. that are involved in cooperative projects with Russian scientists and compiling CTR "success stories" that will be posted on the website.  She organized and developed briefing materials for Roundtable Meetings focused on specific impediments to cooperative threat reduction programs run by DOE and DOD.  To date they have held meetings with U.S. Industry Coalition (USIC) members, U.S. Department of State officials, Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) members, and subcontractors of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating Contracts (CTRIC).   She has compiled summaries of some of the roundtable meetings which will eventually be used for a comprehensive report on impediments to cooperative threat reduction from the perspective of the private sector.

She also worked with Peter Roman on a sustainable biodefense project and wrote an essay on "The Need for a Sustainable Biodefense Strategy" that addresses the lack of sustainability and long-term outlooks in the present deterrence, preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery plans for biological weapons attacks and emerging diseases.  She directed an invitational brown bag luncheon seminar series for young professionals in biosecurity, which took place weekly beginning on July 20th.  The participants are a small group of invited young professionals, who have 2-5 years full-time work experience in the fields of public health preparedness, bio-nonproliferation, biotechnology or biodefense research.  The participants represent the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), The National Association of County and City Health Officials, The Federation of American Scientists, The Department of Defense, The National Institutes of Health, The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, The American Public Health Association, The National Academies of Science, The Heritage Foundation and the Henry L. Stimson Center.  The first scheduled speakers include Jonathan Tucker of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Elin Gursky of ANSER, Bruce Gellin of HHS, and Mark Smolinski of the Nonproliferation Threat Initiative. There were seven luncheons from July 20th through August 31st.

She  attended several conferences and meetings of interest to the CTR project: "Russia's Loose Nukes" at Georgetown University; "Making Markets for Vaccines: From Ideas to Action" at the Center for Global Development; "Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime: Challenges and Prospects for      Global Security.' on Capitol Hill," "Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities" at the National Academy of Sciences; "BioShield II: Biosecurity, Public Health and the Role of Industry" at the Center for American Progress.

Current Activities: Johnson is a Senior Analyst for Public Health Preparedness with the National Association for County & City Health Officials, the national organization that represents local health departments. She works as their liaison to the federal government to advocate for sustained funding and support, appropriate evaluation, and effective practices in the field of public health preparedness. The organization provides the federal government with local-level stakeholder input on national preparedness and homeland security policy and planning.  During graduate school she received a travel grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to complete her Master's thesis at the Robert Koch Institute, the German federal institution responsible for disease control and prevention, located in Berlin.

Fatema Abdul Rasul Haji-Taki

Spring 2005 Fellow, Citizens for Global Solutions

Education: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, BA Political Science, 2004

Issues Covered: Peacekeeping

Major Fellowship Activities: Rasul focused on peace operations, UN reform, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She helped prepare materials for several Congressional staffers on the situation in Darfur and wrote several articles for the CGS website including "What Next for the African Union in Darfur?" "Time For A UN Emergency Capacity," "The United Nations Responds to Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo," and "UN Management Reform In Progress," and co-authored "Towards A Comprehensive U.S. Agenda For UN Reform" and "Gingrich-Mitchell Report: A Viable Approach to UN Reform." She also wrote news summaries and updated web articles on several UN reform proposals, the UN Oil For Food Program and the Convention on Nuclear Terrorism. She interviewed the UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations and wrote about Kofi Annan's plan for the UN for the Summer 2005 issue of Global Solutions Quarterly.

She attended numerous policy briefings and meetings at the Arms Control Association, Brookings Institution, Center for American Progress, Georgetown University, State Department, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, U.S. Institute for Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, and has participated in coalition meetings with other peace and security groups. She regularly helps prepare materials for the monthly meeting of Partners for Effective Peacekeeping.

Current Activities: Haji-Taki is a Program Associate for Civil Liberties with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.  The key focus of the civil liberties program is to defend individual rights, freedoms, democratic processes and institutions threatened and eroded by the so-called global war on terror.  They work with partner organizations both nationally and internationally in pursuit of their goals of defending civil liberties as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and other similar national charters.  She works with the Program Manager and assists in program development; partnership development; and programmatic responsibility for administrative tasks.  She previously worked as a Program Coordinator for Peace & Security at Citizens for Global Solutions.  She primarily focused on the crisis in Darfur and the broader impact of failed and failing states on global security.  She also worked on the “Campaign for a 21st Century UN” and tracked the following reform taking place at the UN: responsibility to protect, the Peacebuilding Commission, management reform and mandate review.  She was co-director of The Qunoot Foundation, an organization based in Washington, DC to provide a platform for marginalized Muslim voices, and was a Policy Coordinator for SustainUS, a U.S. youth network that works on sustainable development.  Prior to that she served as an Edward Rawson Fellow at Citizens for Global Solutions.

Claire Applegarth

Fall 2004 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: Smith College, BA Government, 2004

Issues Covered: Nuclear Nonrproliferation Treaty; Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; U.S.-Russian nuclear arsenals; cooperative threat reduction programs

Major Fellowship Activities: Applegarth co-wrote a report titled Major Proposals to Strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: A Resource Guide as part of ACA's "Campaign to Strengthen the NPT."  The report describes key government proposals in 14 areas relating to the global nuclear nonproliferation system and analyzes the positions of major states and blocs on the proposals.  It demonstrates that there is widespread agreement among world leaders that the nonproliferation system must be reinforced, but that there are also significant differences as to how to achieve that goal.  The report was distributed to ACA members, members of Congress, and to UN diplomats.  She has written several news articles for Arms Control Today: "Foreign Ministers Affirm CTBT Support," "Russia, U.S. Bolster Regional Nuclear Security Following Terrorist Attacks," "Brazil Permits Greater IAEA Inspection," "G8 Global Partnership Selects Ukraine for Nonproliferation Funds," "Brazil, IAEA Reach Inspections Agreement," "U.S. Says It Will Complete Russian Nuclear Security Upgrades by 2008," "Modest Hike in Threat Reduction Budget," "U.S., Russia Seek Help on Plutonium," "Threat Reduction Budget Detailed," and "UN Adopts Nuclear Terrorism Convention; Treaty Seven Years in the Making."  She co-wrote "Iran Agrees to Suspension of Uranium-Enrichment Activities" for the ACT news update and compiled "The 2000 NPT Review Conference And the 13 Practical Steps: A Summary" for ACT.  She helped organize a strategy meeting on the CTBT attended by close to 30 experts in the field that produced a work plan addressing testing issues.  She helped organize a briefing on the NPT Review Conference that ACA, the Carnegie Endowment, and Reaching Critical Will hosted for diplomats at the UN on April 20, 2005.  She also assisted in the April 5 press conference where ACA released a statement on the NPT signed by over 20 experts in the field.

Applegarth attended many policy briefings, including "The Proliferation of Uranium Enrichment Technology" sponsored by WIIS, "U.S. Foreign Policy After the Elections: Where Do We Go From Here?" by the World Affairs Council with the American Academy of Diplomacy, an NGO/DPI Briefing on WMD at the UN, a "Weaponization of Space" panel of NGO experts at the UN, "The Top Threat to America's Security: A Nuclear 9/11" at Democratic Leadership Council-Blueprint Magazine luncheon featuring Graham Allison, a talk entitled "The Road to Nuclear Security" on Lawrence Korb's new publication of the same name, featuring panelists Korb, Joe Cirincione, and Robert McNamara, a lunch presentation at the Woodrow Wilson Center on "Nuclear Nonproliferation: Change and Challenges," by Graham Andrew of the IAEA, a Wilson Center lunch talk entitled "U.S. Counterproliferation Policy" by Michael Nacht of UC-Berkeley, a CTR working group roundtable session on nuclear submarine dismantlement at Global Green USA, and the International Nuclear Materials Policy Forum in Alexandria, Virginia. She also attended one day of the Peace and Security Community Annual Strategy Retreat, a Peace and Security Initiative meeting, attended and helped put together the follow-up summary/briefing to ACA's strategy meeting on nuclear testing and attended ACA's press conference entitled "Controlling the Spread of Ballistic Missiles," a briefing by Cato Institute scholars called "The Future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Prospects and Problems," a RANSAC briefing entitled "Evolving Russian Nuclear Security Risks and U.S.–Russian Nuclear Security Cooperation," a briefing on the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, a Global Green USA CTR working group roundtable talk on nuclear submarine dismantlement, a Woodrow Wilson Center talk on "U.S. Counterproliferation Policy," a Carnegie Endowment luncheon talk launching Universal Compliance, ACA's February 3 panel on the NPT, and a Department of Energy briefing on the budget release. She attended the opening week of the NPT Review Conference in New York from May 2-6, including many side panel events held by NGOs and some governmental briefings. She has also participated in a couple informal roundtable discussions on the NPT Review Conference, including one with Brazilian Ambassador Sergio Duarte, the President of the Review Conference, and another with Paul Meyer, Canada's disarmament ambassador to the UN.  She also participated in a four-day Model UN Conference, where she represented the United States in the NPT Review Conference.

Current Activities: Applegarth was a volunteer for five months for the Benin Education Fund, a nonprofit that seeks to improve access to education for Beninese youth. She helped develop and write project proposals and provided guidance on the organization's management. In September 2007 she will begin an MPP at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, where has received a Deans' Fellowship. Previously she was a Research Analyst with the Homeland Security/Intel team at DFI International. where she researched and wrote lessons learned and best practices in emergency response and homeland security for the Department of Homeland Security's Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS) program. She also interned at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the International Security Program where she worked on the "Strengthening the Global Partnership" project, which focuses on nonproliferation and threat reduction issues.

Elizabeth Eraker

Fall 2004 Fellow, Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Education: Stanford University, BA History, 2004

Issues Covered: Dual-use export controls, including Missile Technology Control Regime; chemical and biological weapons; WMD terrorism

Major Fellowship Activities: Eraker co-wrote a report, "Duelfer Report Uncovers Complex Arms Procurement Network; Links to Asian Countries and Companies," analyzing the contents of the Duelfer Report and its implications for multilateral and national export control efforts, that was published in the October/November 2004 issue of Asian Export Control Observer. She conducted research on the Department of Homeland Security's new guidances on emergency response and recovery in the event of radiological terrorism.  The resulting article she wrote, "Cleanup After a Radiological Attack; U.S. Prepares Guidance' appeared as special report in the Fall/Winter 2004 issue of The Nonproliferation Review. A shorter version of the report will be posted on the CNS website as a Research Story of the Week.  She worked with Dr. Lawrence Scheinman on a research project assessing the impact of dual-use, nonproliferation export controls on the economic development of industrializing countries.  She focused primarily on the Missile Technology Control Regime and conducted a literature review on the issue of dual-use technology transfer within the MTCR, developed a historical timeline of the regimes' efforts to control missile technology, and developed a record of developing countries' complaints about discrimination within the regime.  She assisted senior CNS staff members with an interview of Ambassador Carlos Sersale di Cerisano, the most recent chair of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), helped develop questions for the Ambassador, attended the interview, and prepared a transcript of the proceedings that she edited into a special report that will be published in the December/January edition of the CNS NIS Export Control Observer.  She researched the recent passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540, which obligates member states to criminalize the possession of WMD and related materials and enact domestic export controls to restrict the transfer of such items.  She focused on the April 2004 debate between the sponsors of the resolution and certain developing countries, exploring how objections to the resolution relate to a larger set of concerns about access to dual-use technology in the face of increasing efforts to control WMD.  She wrote up her findings in an article that will be published by CNS.  In collaboration with a CNS research assistant, she interviewed a technical expert at the Wassenaar Arrangement's Secretariat on dual-use technology transfers as well as corresponded with several experts on this issue.  She maintained the CNS listserv on chemical and biological weapons and WMD terrorism, which involves reviewing multiple news sources and compiling relevant articles to send to over 3,000 subscribers, three times a week. She also archived the list serve materials in a CNS database that is available for public reference. She helped to organize and publicize a press briefing on the recent CNS book, The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism, which was held August 19, 2004.  She created publicity materials for the event, and updated the CNS press database.  She also attended the event, which featured a panel discussion about the risks of nuclear and radiological terrorist attack and strategies for protection against those risks.  She helped Leonard Spector prepare for an interview on ABC's Nightline on the nuclear proliferation risks facing the new CIA Director and then attended the taping of the interview.  She researched the Jordanian export control system in preparation for a State Department training session on that system, conducted by Leonard Spector, and assisted him with the preparation of training materials for a briefing on the threat of weapons of mass destruction and the role of export controls in countering that threat.  She participated in CNS's training seminar for the Export and Related Border Security (EXBS) Advisor assigned to work in Jordan, for which she had previously prepared the training materials.  She attended a full day of the training, which was taught by Leonard Spector, and contributed to discussions about the status of export controls in Jordan.

She attended the public symposium "Post-Cold War U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground," which was sponsored by the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at The National Academy of Sciences, as well as a lecture by Senator Richard Lugar at the National Press Club on nuclear nonproliferation priorities in an election year.  She attended a congressional briefing by Dr. Charles Ferguson on the book on nuclear terrorism as part of CNS' Security for a New Century briefing series, and attended a lecture by Graham Allison on his new book, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.  She attended "The Road to Nuclear Security," a panel discussion on current U.S. nuclear strategy with Robert McNamara, Lawrence Korb, and Joseph Cirincione at the Center for American Progress.

Current Activities: Eraker is a Policy Analyst at Google Inc.  She works on a wide range of public policy issues impacting Google and the Internet community.   Her work involves developing corporate policy strategy, performing government outreach, and researching federal policy developments.  In Fall 2008 she will begin law school at the University of California at Berkeley.

Toby Berkman

Spring 2004 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Harvard University, AB History & Literature, 2002

Issues Covered: UN peacekeeping; peace operations in Africa; European Union peace operations; global security spending; the protection of civilians during cases of ethnic cleansing, genocide and mass death

Major Fellowship Activities: Berkman worked on the Stimson Center's "Future of Peace Operations" program that looks for practical solutions to improve international peace operations and post-conflict reconstruction worldwide. Mr. Berkman's research focused on three main project areas: improving peacekeeping in Africa; evaluating the operational readiness of international militaries to uphold the "Responsibility to Protect" civilians in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass death; and collecting data on international security spending for the UN High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.

For the project on building regional peacekeeping capacity in Africa, Berkman completed a 500-entry bibliography on African peacekeeping including sources from African, European and U.S. NGOs, scholarly journals, and various national governments. He also wrote summaries of all the current peace operations in Africa for the Stimson Center website, and helped organize a roundtable discussion with Dr. Joseph Collins, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, on the Global Peace Operations Initiative, a presidential initiative to train international peacekeepers, mostly within Africa.

The "Responsibility to Protect" project dealt with the protection of civilians from genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass death. This project attempted to evaluate the operational capacity of national militaries and multinational organizations to engage in "civilian protection missions," which would be carried out in non-permissive environments, where populations are at risk for large-scale violence. He helped to interview experts on the rule of law and military intervention, and conducted research for a paper evaluating the international response to cases of genocide and ethnic cleansing. He wrote or co-wrote and designed the section of the Stimson Center website on "Operational Capacities for Civilian Protection Missions." He also organized a workshop with international military and civilian experts.

For the project on European Union peace operations, he wrote a Stimson Fact Sheet entitled "Funding for Post-Conflict Operations: NATO and the EU" and edited a number of Stimson publications. He also worked on a project for the UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, collecting, organizing and evaluating statistics on global security spending in support of the Panel's research division. Together with Stimson Senior Associate William Durch, he devised a comprehensive matrix for tabulating security spending worldwide that includes spending data on efforts to counter a number of security threats, from civil wars, to terrorism, to weapons of mass destruction. He was the primary author of a summary report of the statistical findings entitled Guide to Using the UN High-Level Panel Data CD. This analysis was recently utilized by the Panel in its recent report "A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility."

He attended numerous conferences on peacekeeping and conflict in Africa. These included "The Great Lakes Policy Forum" with the Vice President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ruberwa, at SAIS; "Preventing the Next Wave of Conflict: The Political Instability Task Force," "Sexual Violence in the DRC," talks on the humanitarian situation in Darfur, Sudan and a talk by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, all at the Woodrow Wilson Center; "Planning for Peace in Sudan," testimony from the House Foreign Relations Committee by Gen. Romeo Dallaire on lessons from the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and "Addressing Gaps in Disarmament, Demobilization & Reintegration: Cases from the Field," both at CSIS; "Elections in Afghanistan," and "The Lone Ranger: America and Post-Conflict Stability Operations," both at the U. S. Institute of Peace; and several Congressional hearings. More recently he attended a conference on Responsibility to Protect at the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Great Lakes Policy Forum on rule of law in the Great Lakes region of Africa at SAIS, a U.S. military briefing on the situation in Afghanistan at CSIS, a Partnership for Effective Peace Operations meetings at CSIS May 19 and June 17, the Great Lakes Policy Forum at SAIS, a conference on constabulary forces in peace operations at CSIS, a conference at USIP on US civilian capacity for post-conflict operations, a conference on peacekeeping in Africa at USIP, and a Center for Global Development conference at SAIS on "Promoting Human Security and Development in Weak States." He wrote a summary of each conference for the other members of the Future of Peace Operations project team.

Current Activities: Berkman is pursuing a joint degree (JD/MPP) at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government (international security).  He was awarded the Zuckerman Fellowship, a full scholarship to the Kennedy School.  He will begin his third year in Fall 2008.  In summer 2008 he is working at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.  He worked at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in summer 2007.  Prior to entering graduate school he worked as a Research Assistant with the Stimson Center's Future of Peace Operations Project since the completion of his Fellowship.  He researched the rule of law in peacekeeping operations, U.N. sanctions regimes, and arms control in regions of conflict.  He co-authored two Stimson Center reports that were published in Fall 2006, Who Should Keep the Peace? Providing Security for 21st Century Peace Operations with William Durch and The Impossible Mandate? Military Preparedness, the Responsibility to Protect, and Modern Peace Operations with Victoria Holt.

Andrew Prosser

Spring 2004 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), MA International Relations, 2002
Villanova University, BA Political Science and BS Mathematics, 2000

Issues Covered: Nuclear weapons and missile proliferation, non-proliferation and counter-proliferation policies; nuclear technology export controls; U.S. arms trade policy (especially regarding South Asia); humanitarian and human rights issues associated with the arms trade and armed conflict

Major Fellowship Activities: Prosser focused on the nexus between export control, non-proliferation policy and U.S. counterproliferation policy, and wrote several articles and reports for CDI that are posted on its website.  He researched and wrote a short analysis piece on U.S. arms transfers and military policy towards Pakistan, entitled "U.S. Arms Transfers to America's Newest 'Major Non-NATO Ally.'"  He also contributed case studies on U.S. military assistance to both Pakistan and India to CDI's "Arms Trade" web page.  His research for these pieces included interviews with experts from several think tanks and government officials.  He attended a hearing of the House International Relations Committee and heard testimony from Assistant Secretary of State John Wolf on the potential admittance of China to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a multilateral export control regime that coordinates nuclear export guidelines among supplier countries.  He subsequently wrote another article for CDI's "Nuclear Issues" web page entitled "Considering China as a Potential Member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group."  He wrote two articles about nuclear proliferation and means to curtail such activity.  The first is entitled "The Proliferation Security Initiative in Perspective," on a U.S.-led effort to interdict illicit sea, air and land-based WMD shipments. He conducted research on nuclear smuggling in South and Southeast Asia, and the role of international intelligence cooperation and export control efforts in curtailing the illicit trade in NBC weapons, materials and equipment.  He wrote "Nuclear Trafficking Routes: Dangerous Trends in Southern Asia," which detailed nuclear and missile trafficking activities in South and Southeast Asia during the past 10 years; this research article was posted on CDI's "Nuclear Issues" page.  He drafted an op-ed on the inadequacy of measures taken to bring to a halt the Khan nuclear smuggling network and associated agents' activities.  He also authored a research piece titled "Iraq: Civilian Suffering in the Fallujah Assault" about the humanitarian effects of the fighting in Fallujah, Iraq in November 2004.  In addition to the articles for CDI, he co-wrote an op-ed, "The Need for Arms Transfer Restraint," which was published in Defense News.  The op-ed voiced concerns about the U.S. delivery of major conventional weapons systems to authoritarian allies in the war on terrorism.  He was quoted in an article in Sea Power magazine ("Proliferation Security Initiative Seen as Start to Curbing Trade in Weapons of Mass Destruction," November 2004).  In June 2004, he served as a rapporteur for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace at its annual Nonproliferation Conference, which hosted talks by leading nuclear experts, including Hans Blix and Mohammed El-Baradei. He also spoke to a class of students at American University about careers in the field of peace and security.

He attended a lecture by the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, on U.S.-Pakistan Counterterrorism Efforts, at the Heritage Foundation.  He attended a Congressional briefing, "Pakistan and the Nuclear Supermarket: Assessing the Damage," given by Husain Haqqani, former adviser to Prime Minister Bhutto, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, a conference at the National Academy of Sciences (CISAC summer symposium), "Post-Cold War U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground," and a briefing, "Nuclear Security Strategy for the 21st Century," by General Eugene Habiger (ret.), USAF, at the Center for International Trade and Security.  He also attended and participated in a meeting of the Arms Transfer Working Group, at which his article on Pakistan was circulated to the Group's members.  He attended various segments of CDI's annual Board meeting, including the CDI Board dinner where General Anthony Zinni gave a speech about the situation and U.S. policy in Iraq.  He attended the Luxembourg Group conference on Transatlantic Relations, held at the Woodrow Wilson Center and SAIS, as well as two panel discussions--one on failing states, and another on weapons proliferation.

Current Activities: Prosser is pursuing a PhD in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva. He is pursuing research on U.S. nonproliferation policy and nuclear policies in emerging nuclear states.  His doctoral thesis examines the question of why so many states have
forsworn nuclear weapons.  It applies quantitative methods and sociological insights on status and prestige to comprehend states' nuclear choices.  He expects to complete his degree in Fall 2008.  He is also working as a Graduate Assistant in the Political Science Department.  In November 2006 he received first prize in the American Academy of Diplomacy's 2006 Leonard Marks Essay Contest for Creative Thought and Writing on American Foreign Policy for his essay titled "Engaging Iran to Impose Limits on its Nuclear Program." As part of the prize, he met with Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns at the State Dept. to discuss his essay, and he also defended the essay before a distinguished panel of former US ambassadors at the American Academy of Diplomacy.  He wrote “Criminal Pursuits,” a letter to the editor in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March/April 2007) about the A. Q. Khan network and state incentives to acquire nuclear weapons. He presented "The Paths to Restraint: Explaining Why States Abandon (or Embrace) the Nuclear Option," Annual Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference in Amsterdam in June 2007.  In February-March 2006, he traveled to India with the help of a grant from the Tokyo Foundation (SYLFF Fellows Mobility Program). In India, he was a visiting fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University and interviewed nuclear policy experts in New Delhi in support of his academic research.  He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and the Peace Science Society International.
 

Sarah Chankin-Gould

Fall 2003 Fellow, Federation of American Scientists, Strategic Security Project

Education: Tufts University, MA Law and Diplomacy, 2008
Occidental College, BA Diplomacy and World Affairs, and Spanish, 2003

Issues Covered: Nuclear and conventional weapons in Latin America; Missile Technology Control Regime

Major Fellowship Activities: Chankin-Gould wrote an issue brief, The OAS Firearms Convention: Curbing Illicit Arms Flows for a More Secure Future for the FAS website.  She co-authored an issue brief on shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles entitled MANPADS Proliferation for the FAS website.  She contributed research to and helped edit a report by Matt Schroeder entitled Small Arms, Terrorism and the OAS Firearms Convention.  She translated the press release for the report into Spanish and served as the contact for Spanish- speaking press on the subject of the report, allowing FAS to reach a broader audience.  She represented FAS as an Observer at the XVIII General Conference of OPANAL (the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean), held in Havana, Cuba on November 5-6.  She did a presentation on the conference to FAS's staff, and wrote an article on the conference, "Preventing Nuclear Proliferation in Latin America: The Treaty of Tlatelolco," that appeared in the FAS Public Interest Report (Winter 2004).  She researched and co-wrote a paper on the Missile Technology Control Regime.  She researched voting records of Senate Foreign Relations Committee members on firearms issues.  She edited a paper written by Ivan Oelrich entitled "Missions for Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War."  She updated the Arms Sales Monitoring Project Bills and Public Laws webpage, and updated ASMP database on Notifications to Congress of Pending U.S. Arms Transfers.

She has attended numerous meetings, including a briefing on the Department of State's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, a Defense Security Cooperation Agency conference, a Defense Trade Advisory Group meeting at the State Department, a "Control Arms" campaign meeting sponsored by Amnesty International and Oxfam, a CITS Briefing "The Missile Technology Control Regime and Multilateral Export Control Reform: A Briefing by Ambassador Mariusz Handzlik, recent MTCR Chairman," a Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security Transportation and Related Equipment Technical Advisory Committee meeting, and a House Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, hearing on "Nonproliferation: Assessing Missile Technology Export Controls," and an Organization of American States panel on "Arms, Drugs, and Terrorism in the Western Hemisphere,"and Arms Transfer Working Group meetings.  Recently, she attended a House Bi-Partisan Task Force on Non-proliferation panel, the New America Foundation book forum on America's Empire Problem, a Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation briefing "Pakistan and the Nuclear Supermarket: Assessing the Damage," represented FAS at a booth at the American Association for the Advancement of Science fair, and attended their Vision 2033 Conference.

Current Activities: Chankin-Gould received her MA in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University in May 2008.  Her Master's thesis was titled "Weapons of Individual Destruction: Understanding and Addressing the Small Arms Threat."  In Fall 2008 she will enter the PhD program at the Fletcher School where her fields of study will continue to be international security and public international law.  Her PhD dissertation will aim to understand the causes and consequences of small arms proliferation and misuse, and examine the potential of initiatives designed to mitigate the threat.  In summer 2007 she worked as an intern on the International Affairs and Trade team of the U.S. Government Accountability Office.  She previously worked at CACI as a Document Management Analyst for DOE’s Yucca Mountain Project  as a Research Assistant in the Center for Defense Information's Challenging Conventional Threats Project, and as a Research Assistant at FAS following the completion of her fellowship there. 

Molly Farneth

Fall 2003 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Education: Harvard University Divinity School, Masters in Theological Studies, 2007
Bowdoin College, AB Government and Religious Studies, 2003

Issues Covered: Military and foreign policy implications of U.S. energy policy

Major Fellowship Activities:  Farneth served as the coordinator of PSR's Energy Security Initiative, a multidisciplinary project addressing the security implications of the U.S. energy policy.   She helped forge a coalition of PSR staff from both the security and environmental programs, and planned and facilitated the coalition's meetings.  She helped present the initiative's concept paper to PSR's Board of Directors in November 2003.  She wrote three fact sheets for the Energy Security Initiative: "Military and Foreign Policy Impacts of U.S. Oil Dependence,"  "Nuclear Power and the Terrorist Threat," and "Environmental Health, Global Security, and Fossil Fuel Dependence."  She organized four Energy Security Initiative briefings.  The first was entitled "U.S. Energy Policy and Human Health," focusing on the security and environmental health impacts of fossil fuel and nuclear-based energy, and served as the panel's moderator.  The second briefing she organized was entitled, "The Pentagon Report: Global Security and Climate Change," which was attended by Congressional staff, embassy staff, representatives of a wide range of public policy organizations, and media.  The third briefing, entitled "Threats to U.S. Energy Infrastructure," addressed a variety of threats, including radiological terrorism and security vulnerabilities in oil/gas shipment.  She organized the final Energy Security Initiative briefing, entitled "Geopolitics of Oil," which featured Professor Michael Klare discussing the coupling of U.S. energy policy and military policy through the twentieth century.   She also created the Energy Security Initiative website.  She submitted a resolution on the security and health risks posed by U.S. energy policy for adoption by the American Public Health Association (APHA), and was invited by APHA's Peace Caucus to submit an abstract for a presentation during a session on War, Terrorism, and Public Health at APHA's 2004 National Conference in November.  She has written articles about the Energy Security Initiative for PSR's Security Activist Update and the Environment & Health Update, and an article for the Environment and Health Update, "Global Climate Change: New Pentagon Report Turns Up the Heat," outlining the threats to international security associated with climate change.  She also wrote an article, "PSR Unites Environment, Security Expertise in New Initiative," for PSR Reports, PSR's quarterly newsletter.  In addition to her work on the Energy Security Initiative, Farneth wrote a fact sheet on bioterrorism and public health, "How Secure is the Homeland?: Biological Terrorism and U.S. Preparedness."  She compiled presidential candidates' statements and positions on energy security issues, which will be combined with other issue scorecards and released by the Arms Control Advocacy Collaborative  She wrote a factsheet entitled "No Safe Harbor: Security Threats of LNG."  She also helped PSR's Security Program prepare for the Congressional briefing, "U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing: Health Effects and Policy Implications.". She also provides a daily news service to the PSR Security Program.

Farneth attended several meetings and briefings.  These include the Alliance for Health Reform's briefing on bioterrorism and public health, a Resources for the Future seminar by the lead author of a recent MIT study on the future of nuclear power, a WIIS panel on the security threats associated with centralized energy infrastructure, and a forum examining American foreign policy at the Center for American Progress.  She represented PSR at the Institute for Policy Studies' PetroPolitics National Summit in January.  She has had meetings with several leaders in the field of energy security, including experts from the Energy Future Coalition, Center for Energy and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Resources for the Future.  She also participated in the PSR Security Program 2004 Planning Retreat and in PSR's Leadership Conference, where she fielded attendees' questions about the security vulnerabilities associated with nuclear power. She attended the PSR/WAND/CACNP briefing on terrorism prevention and preparedness.  She attended the press conference on the Smart Security Resolution, which was introduced by Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and written, in part, by PSR.  She also attended a Women In International Security briefing, "Energy and Security: Challenges for Russia and the Baltics,' at the Brookings Institution.  More recently she attended "Peaking of World Oil Production: What are we Willing to Risk?" at the Atlantic Council, "The Great Energy Efficiency Debate," and "Renewable Power: On the Brink of a Revolution?" hosted by Worldwatch Institute.  She also represented PSR at the Take Back America conference organized by Campaign for America's Future.

Current Activities: Farneth is a Program Assistant with the Education & Youth Development program and the Criminal Justice program at the Open Society Institute in Baltimore.  She is conducting research and writing, as well as organizing a series of educational forums.  In Fall 2008 she will begin a PhD program in Religion (in the Religion, Ethics, & Politics subfield) at Princeton University. She has been awarded a fellowship from Princeton's University Center for Human Values.  She earned a Masters in Theological Studies from the Harvard University Divinity School in 2007.  The focus of her studies was religion and politics.  Previously, she worked as a Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Energy Security Initiative at PSR.

Krista Nelson

Spring 2003 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: University of Chicago, BA Political Science, 2001

Issues Covered: International criminal court

Major Fellowship Activities: Nelson researched the current U.S. policy towards the International Criminal Court (ICC).  She wrote a briefing book on the subject, Closing the Door: The U.S. Effort to Shield Itself from the International Criminal Court, that was published by CDI.  She conducted interviews with experts, attended relevant lectures and conferences, and read the pertinent literature on the topic.  She wrote "Iraq: Questions Regarding the Laws of War" for the CDI website, which includes discussion of conventional weapons, weapons of mass destruction, and human shields.  She contributed a quote on Belgium's "Anti-Atrocity Law" to the April 8th edition of CDI's "Insights" dispatch.  She wrote an article on Options for the Prosecution of War Crimes and Atrocities in Iraq for the Weekly Defense Monitor, and a forthcoming article on the prospect for trials for the detainees in Guantanamo Bay.   In October she presented her paper on the International Criminal Court at the International Biennial Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, held in Chicago.  She attended two United Nations Association conferences on "Post-Conflict Law and Order," one focusing on maintaining the peace and the other focusing on creating a working legal system; and a lecture at the National Press Club on war crimes in Iraq in honor of the release of the Arabic edition of a book on the law of armed conflict and violations thereof.  She attended a Center for Defense Information/Physicians for Social Responsibility conference on U.S. Nuclear Policy and Counterproliferation, which included a panel on international law; a briefing on the law of armed conflict and a potential war in Iraq; two meetings with Supreme Court Justices; and a lecture on war crimes tribunals at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.  She attended the two-day Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, which included lectures on international criminal law and military law; a press conference at the National Press Club on the International Criminal Court's Victims Trust Fund; a "Law Day" lecture at the Library of Congress; a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute on U.S.-Russian Relations after Iraq; and a panel discussion at the US Institute of Peace on the Military and the Making of Foreign Policy.  She also attended a panel discussion on "Establishing Justice and the Rule of Law in Iraq" at the United States Institute of Peace; a lecture on and release of the new book Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions; and a discussion of external security and the use of force at "The Changing Role of the State: A Franco-American Dialogue" conference.  She attended a debate on "Prosecuting Terrorists: Civil or Military Courts?" at the American Enterprise Institute; a Women in International Security (WIIS) meeting on Baltic Regional Security Challenges; the presentation of the National Endowment for Democracy's "Democracy Award" to North Korean gulag survivors; and a "Captive Nations" meeting held by Victims of Communism. 

Current Activities: Nelson will begin her third year in a PhD program at the Department of War Studies at King's College, University of London in Fall 2006 as a recipient of the "Defence Studies PhD Studentship."  She also received an Overseas Research Student Award from the United Kingdom government.  She is writing a doctoral thesis on the political dynamics of laws of war treaty negotiations.  In Fall 2005 she  taught at a training facility for British officers.  In July 2005 she participated in Columbia University's Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), and in September 2005 she presented a paper on "NGOs and the Creation of Laws of War Treaties: A Democratization of Negotiation?" at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.  Nelson presented a paper on the laws of war at "Transformation and Convergence: Armed Forces and Society in the New Security Environment," a conference held in Toronto in October 2004. 

Kaleb Redden

Spring 2003 Fellow, Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Education:  University of Cambridge, M. Phil International Relations, 2004
North Carolina State University, BS Chemical Engineering, 2002
BS International Studies, 2002

Issues Covered: IAEA weapons inspections

Major Fellowship Activities: Redden worked with Sandy Spector on an op-ed piece about the need to get international inspectors back in Iraq to verify WMD finds.  He provided support for Sandy Spector to prepare for an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on reasons to readmit UN inspectors, and provided research support to Dennis Gormley on an article that he posted as a Research Story of the Week.  He also distributed briefing materials to congressional offices in anticipation of a vote on the Dirty Bomb Prevention Act (HR891).  He is co-writing a piece for the NIS Export Control Observer with Dennis Gormley on export control violations by some U.S. companies for transferring technology that could improve Chinese missile capabilities.  He has also provided editing support to Dennis Gormley on another article, and has provided some support to CNS's nuclear terrorism project and a project examining possible opportunities for increased export control assistance within the bounds of export control arrangements.  He provided assistance to Leonard Spector to help him prepare for a panel discussion on Russian cooperation with Syria and Iran, held at the Heritage Foundation and attended the discussion.  He provided research assistance to Dennis Gormley on regarding the nature and details surrounding the recent North Korean anti-ship cruise missile tests.  He also attended a conference sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Strategic Studies (based at Duke University) on "The Media and Wartime Challenges," and attended the PSR/CDI Conference on Nonproliferation.  His largest project is a paper focusing on funding and other constraints on the IAEA that make providing a credible inspection regime difficult.  He began the paper before beginning his Fellowship, and has drawn on the expertise of several CNS staff members and has been amplifying the paper based on their comments.  He took over responsibilities for the Chemical and Biological Weapons listserv, which is compiled three times a week to a distribution list of over 3,000 people.  In addition to creating and distributing this document, h manages the listserv subscriptions and archives each distribution's articles into CNS's private databases so that they might be searched later by researchers or graduate students.  He also began doing research for Sandy Spector and Charles Ferguson for their Nuclear Terrorism Project. He provided research assistance for an articles Spector is writing on Iran's nuclear program, and is expanding it into a more formal paper for publication on the CNS website.  He co-authored a piece with Dennis Gormley, on Boeing and Hughes export control violations ("Boeing and Hughes Settle Over Export Control Violations Regarding Technology Data Transfers to the People's Republic of China") for the May 2003 issue of the CNS Export Control Observer.   He attended congressional testimony given by CNS' Dr. James Clay Moltz, and lectures on nuclear liability by Spector and on life on the USS Carl Vinson by Dr. Moltz.  He also provided research support for several ongoing CNS projects, including one on the NPT, and compiled legal treatments on the weaponization of space. He provided support for Leonard Spector for his interview on NPR's Weekend Edition (which Redden attended) on the looting in Iraq.  He is researching the complaints of nations with regard to peaceful technology transfers under Article IV of the NPT as part of a project for Larry Scheinman, keeping track of the Proliferation Security Initiative, and beginning an independent project looking at the changing nature of nonproliferation tools employed by states. 

Current Activities: Redden is a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), which selects only seven PMFs per year.   His first rotation was in the OSD Base Realignment and Closure office where he helped with the Secretary's BRAC Recommendations; he is now working in the Regional Assessments and Modeling Division, where he serves as an assistant to the division director who is playing a major role giving structure and managing elements of the process for the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review.  His master's thesis was entitled "From Nonproliferation to Intervention: Representations of Weapons Proliferation in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy."     

Martha Clark Dunigan

Fall 2002 Fellow, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Education: Cornell University, MA Government, 2005
Vassar College, BA Political Science, 2002

Issues Covered: Role of missile defenses in counterproliferation doctrine; Bush Administration policy  of preemption; Iraq; North Korean nuclear program

Major Fellowship Activities: Clark researched and wrote a long policy paper, A False Sense of Security: The Role of Missile Defense in Counterproliferation Doctrine in light of current Bush Administration policies.  She wrote fact sheets and issue briefs about missile defense "Bush Administration Missile Defense Deployment Linked to Preemptive Counterproliferation Policies"; the Bush Administration policy of preemption   "The Bush Doctrine: Preemption and Dominance: The National Security Strategy of the United States of America," and  "Doctrine of Global Hegemony and Preemption: The National Security Strategy of the United States of America."; Iraq "How We Got Here: Post-Gulf War U.N. Security Council Resolutions Pertaining to Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction," and "War in Iraq: The Implications for Missile Defense"; and the
North Korean nuclear program  Dealing With the North Korean Nuclear Problem, The North Korean Nuclear Program and Timeline of Major Events in the North Korea Crisis.  

She was involved in organizing and handling the participant list for a major policy conference put on by PSR in conjunction with the Center for Defense Information on February 26, 2003. This conference on U.S. Nuclear Policy and Counterproliferation was held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and drew prominent speakers including foreign government ministers, a member of Congress. The conference addressed concerns about counterproliferation and preemptive war, new weapons systems and their implications for stability and security, the health and environmental consequences of weapons of mass destruction in wartime, the implications of counterproliferation and preemptive war for international legal norms, and the effectiveness of past nonproliferation policies in light of new Administration initiatives. She was also heavily involved in compiling and editing the proceedings from this conference, which are currently being printed in book form and will be distributed to all participants, some legislative offices, and the press.  She attended weekly meetings of the Monday Lobby arms control coalition, bi-weekly meetings of the Nuclear Weapons Working Group (NWWG), and monthly meetings of the Nuclear Policy Taskforce. She also attended several hearings of the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill pertaining to U.S. domestic response capabilities to WMD terrorism, and a legal hearing pertaining to the Bush Administration's withdrawal from the ABM Treaty without Congressional consultation. She also attended several press conferences on the Iraq war put on by PSR and others at the National Press Club, and distributed press materials. She attended lectures and documentary showings about the issues she worked on at the Cato Institute and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

She worked with PSR's Security Program National Field Director to create several factsheets ("Preemptive War, Unilateralism, and a Quest for Empire," and "Bush Nuclear Policy,") for a new grassroots campaign entitled "SMART Security."  She created a table of all countries either possessing WMD or who had at one time attempted to acquire WMD, for a PSR booklet on counterproliferation and nuclear weapons. She wrote an op-ed for the North Korea issue that will be sent to PSR members and activists as a sample op-ed to encourage them to contribute to their local papers on this issue.  She attended PSR's program planning retreat, which consisted of a day-long intensive planning meeting where the program members discussed their goals and strategies for the next six months.  She assessed and edited the PSR Security program's web content, including the addition of many resources that had been written years ago.   She is working on designing a PSR webpage on missile defense, and conducting extensive research on a variety of issues related to missile defense, including the history of missile defense, weapons in space, technical aspects of missile defense, testing and oversight of the program, international missile defense, and current developments.  She will be writing a series of issue briefs on these and related issues.

Current Activities: Clark is pursuing a PhD at Cornell University's Government Department with a concentration in International Relations and a self-designed minor in Military Studies.  Her dissertation is titled "In the Company of Soldiers: Private Security Companies' Impact on Military Effectiveness & The Democratic Advantage."  She expects to graduate in August 2008.  She was the recipient of a U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship for the 2007-08 year, which supported her dissertation research and writing.  In summer 2006 she worked as a summer associate at the RAND Corporation on a project on deterring nuclear terrorism.  She received Cornell’s "Peace Studies Fellowship" for Fall 2006 that enabled her to conduct dissertation field research.  In summer 2005 she participated in Columbia University's "Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy" (SWAMOS), a three-week conference-style workshop held at Cornell, and run by professor from SAIS, Columbia, and the Army War College. She had a short commentary published in an edited volume on the Iraq War that resulted from a conference at Cornell; the book was titled "Partners or Rivals?: European-American Relations After Iraq," and was published in Italy by Vita e Pensiero publishers (2005). She also wrote an article titled "Deadly Chemicals, Domestic Politics, and Dissent: The Case of Russian Chemical Weapons Destruction and Lessons for Regime Theory" that was published in the Cornell International Review (Spring 2005). She presented an earlier version of this paper at the Northeastern Political Science Association (NPSA) Annual Conference in Boston in November 2004. She began her first teaching assistantship, and is teaching three separate sections for the Introduction to International Relations course at Cornell.  She received a Foreign Language Areas Studies Scholarship (full tuition, plus a stipend for the year, to study Russian in addition to regular coursework).  She authored a paper on the domestic political aspects of Russian chemical weapons demilitarization last semester, and is currently sending it out to political science conferences in hopes of presenting it later in the year.  She is a member of the American Political Science Association.  After her fellowship, she was hired as a Research Assistant at PSR through July 2003.  She is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and Women in International Security.

Jonathan Davis

Fall 2002 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: University of Georgia, BA International Affairs, 2002

Issues Covered: The transfer of technology from American and European companies to China and its implications for national security and proliferation

Major Fellowship Activities: Davis worked on a project entitled "Foreign High-Tech R & D in China," which focuses on the transfer of technology from American and European companies to China and its implications for national security and proliferation.  He provided background research, collected data, and wrote some of the sections of the project report.  He helped present the project findings to a group of eight experts on US-China relations, US- China trade, export controls, and R&D, and discussed their impressions of the project's data and conclusions.  He co-wrote "Risking a Repeat: Export Controls and Post-Conflict Iraq," on the need to consider export controls for trade with a post-Saddam Iraqi regime, which is included in New Angles on Iraq: View of the Stimson Center's Experts, and co-wrote "Export Controls and Post-Conflict Reality, Again," an op-ed that appeared in Defense News (November 4, 2002).  Additionally, he wrote an in-office briefing on the status of the Export Administration Act in Congress and the prospects for export control reform efforts in the coming year.  He co-wrote an opinion piece on the Stimson Center's homepage, titled, "Doing It Right: Post- Iraq Export Control Reforms".  He was the point-person for, and helped prepare the summary, of a conference titled "Improving Multilateral Export Controls and Technology Access for the Developing World," held on December 12, 2002 at the Carnegie Endowment's Conference Center. This conference addressed reform of the multilateral export control regimes and the impact of these regimes on development in the third world.  As part of Stimson's China Tech Transfer project, he prepared an assessment of China's compliance to its WTO accession agreement after researching China's commitments and the major evaluations of China's performance to date. The brief will be used as a resource for an upcoming monograph for the tech transfer project.  He conducted an assessment of the 108th Congressional leadership with an eye on the prospects for passing an Export Administration Act (EAA) in 2003/2004.  He has attended several conferences and meetings, including the Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference; a meeting of the American Bar Association's Committee on Export Controls and Economic Sanctions; the October 21 China Forum (prior to Jiang Zemin's visit with President Bush in Crawford, Texas) at the National Press Club; a meeting with a delegation from the Shanghai Institute of International Studies at the Henry L. Stimson Center on Iraq, Sino-US cooperation, and North Korea's nuclear program admission; "The Chinese Communist Party: The End of the Line?" at the Woodrow Wilson Center; "Taiwan and US Policy: Toward Stability or Crisis" on October 9 at the Russell Senate Office Building; and "The U.S. and Korea: Endless Entanglement or Crossroads for Change?" at the CATO Institute.  Additionally, he met with Dr. Jean- Francois Garbuzan from the Foundation for Strategic Research (Paris) to discuss U.S. export control reform, multilateral export controls, and the post-9/11 use of export controls to combat the terrorist threat.   He helped organize the Stimson Center Fellowship in China event given by the Center's most recent fellow, Alan Tonelson, on "A Necessary Evil?: Current Chinese Views of America's Military Role in East Asia" (February 20).  He served as Rapporteur for the 34th United Nations Issues Conference on "Global Disarmament Regimes: A Future or a Failure?" at the Arden House Conference Center in Harriman, New York from February 28 to March 2.  He has been working on condensing and re-writing his notes from the conference into an official rapporteur's report which will be published by the Stanley Foundation.  He attended a conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center on the sustainability of China's economic boom, titled "Will the Bubble Burst?" (February 12).  He attended the CDI/PSR "US Nuclear Policy and Counterproliferation" conference on February 26 and wrote an in-house summary of the discussion and issues.  He designed two Stimson Center websites, one for the China Technology Transfer project and the second for the U.S. and Multilateral Export Controls project.  He is drafting a proposal for a new Stimson Center project on national security and intangible technology that would bring together government and industry representatives for a series of roundtable forums. He has been writing a piece on the future of the NPT in light of recent developments in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.

Current Activities: Davis is enrolled in a joint JD-MPA program at New York University School of Law and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.  He plans to complete both programs and receive a JD and MPA in May 2009.  In summer 2008 he will work as a Graduate Intern in the Political-Economic Section of the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  He has completed two years at NYU where he won First Place at the 2007 National UCLA Moot Court Competition and was the Global Issues Chair of the International Law Society Board and Volunteers Chair of the Public Service Auction, and has completed one year of an MPA in International Relations at Princeton, where he is focusing mostly on security issues and conflict resolution, and where he received the John Parker Compton Memorial Fellowship, which provides full tuition plus stipend based on academic merit.  In Summer 2007 he worked as a summer associate for the British law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on international arbitrations involving investor-state disputes in both New York and Hong Kong.  In summer 2006 he worked on human rights and legal aid in Monrovia, Liberia with the Foundation for International Dignity.  He previously worked as a research analyst with the Center for International Trade and Security in their Washington, DC office, where he conducted research and analysis on nonproliferation export controls, and wrote reports for government departments and private foundations.

Asma Khan

Fall 2002 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: University of Notre Dame, MA Kroc Institute, Peace Studies, 2002
University of Karachi (Pakistan), MA International Relations, 1999
University of Karachi (Pakistan), BA International Relations, 1998

Major Fellowship Activities: Khan wrote a factsheet on nuclear-weapon-free-zones; an essay/op-ed on "The Nonproliferation Regime and Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone," and an issue brief on landmines.  She worked on a factsheet entitled "Pakistan and India's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons." She attended press conferences on "Countering the Axis of Evil," "Disarming Iraq: How Weapons Inspections Can Work," "Nuclear Deterrence and Chinese Strategic Thinking," "A Rough Neighborhood: Afghanistan and its Neighbors," and the Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference. 

Current Activities: Khan is a Research Officer at the Pakistani NGO PILER (Pakistan Institute for Labor Education and Research).

Regina Lennox

Fall 2002 Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Education: Duke University, JD, 2006
Boston College, BA Political Science, 2001

Issues Covered: Terrorism Prevention; Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Major Fellowship Activities: Lennox worked with both the Terrorism Project and the Non-Proliferation Project.  She wrote the on-line Briefing Book on Tactical Nuclear Weapons.  She proofread and fact-checked "The Terrorism Prevention Handbook: A Guide to U.S. Government Terrorism Prevention Resources and Programs."  She is compiling a weekly update on terrorism prevention-related events occurring around the Washington, DC area, and wrote or contributed to  the "Daily Play-by-Play" of important developments in the Senate debate on the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, both of which are sent out via e-mail.  She completed an on-line briefing book on tactical nuclear weapons for the Non-Proliferation Project and designed the Word and HTML pages for publication.  She helped design and compile a table comparing the House, Senate, and final versions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (distributed to House Appropriations Committee staff).  She attended a Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Iraq with testimony from Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger and Colin Powell; a luncheon discussion on The Threat to America from Offshore Missile Attacks held by the George C. Marshall Center; and a Woodrow Wilson Center Director's Forum with Bill Clinton.  She created webpages about the Department of Homeland Security and the Senate DHS debate.

Current Activities: Lennox is an Associate with McKee Nelson LLP in New York.  She works on the business litigation team and advises major financial institutions in complex civil litigation, specifically related to securitizations and derivatives swaps and securities law.  She was previously a Law Clerk to the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, Chief U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.  She handled a mixed docket of civil and criminal cases. During law school she was a Robert Netherland Miller merit scholar and executive editor of the Alaska Law Review, a scholarly publication that examines legal issues affecting the state of Alaska, published by students from Duke's School of Law, and received a Public Service Award at graduation.  During law school she twice attended the annual National Security Law conference and took National Security Law with Scott Silliman.

Devon Chaffee

Spring 2002 Fellow, Center for Defense Information

Education: Georgetown University Law Center, JD, 2006
Hampshire College, BA International Relations, 2001

Issues Covered: Transparency of tactical nuclear weapons; U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba and Colombia

Major Fellowship Activities: Chaffee conducted research and wrote a monograph on increased transparency in tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) arsenals.  Part of this research has included looking at how NATO expansion and the new Russia-NATO council will affect security concerns and possibilities for negotiations on TNWs.  She has also been researching the wide array of verification techniques that have been used in the past and that could be used in a TNWs transparency regime.  She attended the first week of the 2002 Preparatory Committee session for the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the UN and wrote an article entitled "Nuclear Disarmament Efforts Evaluated at NPT PrepCom," that appeared in the May 2002 The Defense Monitor.  She was invited to revise a paper she wrote previously on Strengthening Nuclear Weapon Free Zones for a small seminar on Nuclear Weapons Free Zones attended mostly by country delegates.  She has written several articles for the Weekly Defense Monitor, "Lifting Restrictions on Aid to Colombia," "Crucial Nonproliferation Assistance to Russia Hangs in The Balance, Again," "Bush's Cuba Policy Under Fire" and "United States and North Korea to Resume Talks."  She also wrote a letter to the editor that appeared in The Wall Street Journal ("Limiting Nuclear War Risk Will Never Be Outdated," May 17, 2002).  She has attended a congressional briefing by FAS and CDI experts on the nuclear earth penetrating weapons, a meeting at CDI with (Ret.) Russian Maj. Gen. P.S. Zolotarev about potential for increase in US-Russian transparency, relating mostly to strategic weapons and possibilities for de-alerting, a Carnegie Endowment function on the U.S.-Russian Summit, a congressional hearing on the Nuclear Posture Review, a meeting on the Urgent Call to End Nuclear Danger organized largely by Representative Kucinich and a briefing by RANSAC on Cooperative Threat Reduction.  

Current Activities: Chaffee is a Kroll Family Human Rights Fellow in the Washington, DC, office of Human Rights First (formerly Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights). She is working to bring national security and counter-terrorism policy in line with human rights standards and is focusing on the treatment of detainees overseas, privacy policies, and immigration restriction. In Fall 2007 she will join Human Rights First as permanent counsel at the conclusion of her fellowship. 

She earned a JD from Georgetown University Law Center in May 2006.  She graduated Magna Cum Laude, was a Public Interest Law Scholar, recieved a Dean's Certificate for service to the Law Center community, and recieved a Certificate in Humanitarian Emergencies and Refugees.  She was a founding member of Georgetown University Law Center's Human Rights Action Group.

In summer 2004 she worked at the Committee on Conscience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which works on genocide prevention.  She  traveled to Chad to interview Darfurian refugees from Western Sudan on a State Department-funded project organized by the Coalition for International Justice.  She was previously the Washington DC representative for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.  Prior to attending law school she was the Research and Advocacy Coordinator at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA.  She wrote on arms control and nonproliferation issues and was the primary editor of their monthly e-newsletter The Sunflower, an update on issues related to nuclear weapons, energy and waste as well as missiles and missile defense.  She attended the 2003 NPT PrepCom in Geneva, and distributed an article she co-authored with NAPF President David Krieger entitled "Facing the Failures of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Regime" was published in this September/October 2003 issue of The Humanist.

Youliana Ivanova

Spring 2002 Fellow, Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute

Education: American University, MA International Economic Policy, 2004
University of Georgia, BA Speech Communication/Political Science, 2001

Issues Covered: Demilitarization of former Soviet WMD sites; nonproliferation; biological and chemical weapons

Major Fellowship Activities: Ivanova worked on the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Program where she conducted research on the current and future projects of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom), concentrating on the time period from March 2001 to the present. She researched the plans of Minatom to import and process spent nuclear fuel from foreign countries and assessed the possibility of these plans becoming a reality. Her research was used as the basis of a paper written by Dr. Sonia Ben Ouagrham, for the Russian "Nuclear Regionalism" and Challenges for U.S. Nonproliferation Assistance Programs Workshop. She helped organize the conference on Russian Nuclear Regionalism, held on April 5, 2002 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She completed a chart on Minatom hierarchy with the names of the departments and department heads.  She also worked on CNS' Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program where she compiled a listserve three times a week with articles pertaining to chemical and biological weapons. The listserve was distributed to subscribers in the nonproliferation field.  She also worked on the Missiles in Bulgaria project, which she developed. She researched the situation with Soviet missiles in Eastern Europe, and wrote an article for the CNS website about the destruction of SS-23 missiles by Bulgaria as a part of the country's bid for NATO membership. She wrote "Bulgaria: Goodbye Missiles, Hello NATO," which appeared in the September/October 2002 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  She helped organize several events and conference s sponsored by CNS, including: "Expert Workshop on the Conduct of Challenge Inspections under the Chemical Weapons Convention," "Keeping Track of Anthrax: The Case for a Biosecurity Convention," "Russia's Nuclear Submarine Fleet: Environmental and Proliferation Threats," "U.S. Security and the Future Environment in Space: Managing Debris and Radiation," and "U.S.-Japan Track II Meeting Arms Control, Disarmament, Nonproliferation, and Verification,"

Current Activities: Ivanova is a Cuba Desk Officer at the U.S. Department of State where she works on Cuba economic sanctions.  She was previously a Serbia Desk Officer in the Office for South-Central Europe, where she served as the focal point for formulation, coordination and implementation of policies and initiatives regarding Serbia for State Department and other U.S. Government principals to advance U.S. interests and promote regional stability.  She monitored and promoted close cooperation with European and other allies on Serbia policy initiatives, including cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, military reform, economic assistance, democratization and other reform efforts.  She was previously a Presidential Management Fellow and a desk officer for Senegal and Guinea-Bissau at the Department of State where she followed political and economic developments in those countries and served as a liaison between the State Department and the U.S. embassies in those countries, as well as between the State Department and the embassies of those countries in Washington, DC.  Previously shw worked as a Policy Analyst with the Export-Import Bank of the United States. She has also worked at the Institute for International Economics as a research assistant to a senior fellow.  During graduate school, she worked part-time at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control where she was responsible for their Iraqwatch website.

Ingrid Staudenmeyer

Spring 2002 Fellow, Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council

Education: University of Cambridge, M. Phil., 2006
American University, BA International Studies, 2001

Issues Covering: Russian nuclear weapons programs and facilities

Issues Covered: Staudenmeyer helped plan and served as Rappatour and wrote summaries of RANSAC Congressional Security Seminars on "U.S.-Russian Relations in the post-September 11 World,"  "A Decade of Nunn-Lugar: U.S.-Former Soviet Union Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Cooperation," "Proliferation Dangers in Russia's Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons Complexes," and "A Briefing on the Dangers and Benefits of Russia's International Nuclear Cooperation."  The summaries of these events were incorporated into the final study entitled Reshaping U.S.- Russian Threat Reduction: New Approaches for the Second Decade.  She helped to write the report on the RANSAC-Carnegie Endowment conference "Further Assessing the Scale of the Problems in the Russian Nuclear, Chemical, Biological and Missile Complexes: What More Needs to Be Done to Downsize the Complexes?"   Following the Bush-Putin Presidential summit in late May, she wrote a critical analysis of the summit's goals and achievements, and a summary of the criticisms of the Treaty of Moscow/Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty.  She also helped plan and organize a series of dual-sponsored RANSAC-Carnegie Endowment for International Peace events which will be taking place this summer.  She helped RANSAC compile FY03 budgetary analysis and wrote a summary of the Senate Armed Services Committee's Sub-Committee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.  She represented RANSAC at a variety of conferences, seminars, and hearings, including the Arms Control Association's "Moving Beyond 'MAD'? A Briefing on Nuclear Arms Control and the Bush-Putin Summit," the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's hearing on the Nuclear Posture Review, and the Brookings Institute's "Preview of President Bush's Trip to Russia: Assessing Current Relations Between Moscow and Washington."

Current Activities: Staudenmeyer received an M. Phil. in European Studies from Wolfson College at Cambridge University in 2006 where she focused on  European Security.

Kendra Park

Fall 2001 Fellow, World Federalist Association

Education: Columbia University, Master of International Affairs, 2007<