Image: SIPRI–Korea Foundation interns Eunil Cho, Suyoun Yang and Duli Im.
This month SIPRI welcomed two new SIPRI–Korea Foundation interns. Suyoun Jang will intern with SIPRI's Global Health Project, and Duli Im will be an intern in the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. They join Eunil Cho, who has been an intern within the Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme since September 2013.
Suyoun Jang is a PhD candidate in Development Cooperation at Ewha Womans University. She has conducted research on human security, development assistance and fragile states. Her work has appeared in Pacific Focus, the Korean Journal of Security Affairs and The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (ed. B. Howe, Palgrave Macmillian, 2013).
Duli Im is a Masters candidate in political science in the Graduate School of Kyung Hee University. Her thesis focuses on state–civil society partnership dynamics in the formation of the 1987 Mine Ban Treaty. In a similar vein, her research at SIPRI will explore development and implementation processes of the Arms Trade Treaty.
Eunil Cho is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University. Her research topic is the influence of the international non-proliferation regime on domestic political processes in Korea and Japan. During her time at SIPRI, she has been working on a paper examining recent changes in Japanese non-proliferation policy and its potential implications.
Cho was selected as a SIPRI–Korea Foundation intern in 2013, together with Namwoo Kim (China and Global Security Project) and Jae Won Lee (Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme). As part of his internship, Lee published a SIPRI Background Paper on South Korea's export control system.
SIPRI and the Korea Foundation established a fellowship programme in 2012. So far five young Korean researchers have spent time at SIPRI. Successful applicants have an opportunity to conduct advanced and policy-oriented research related to Korea, as well as to participate in scholarly discourse on key public policy issues.
The two organizations also signed an agreement in June 2012 to expand the eligibility of programme participants to include fellows with doctoral degrees.
Professor Cho Yun Young is the first SIPRI–Korea Foundation Fellow and has been researching denuclearization of the Korean peninsula since September 2013 within the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme. Professor Cho is from Chung-Ang University, the Department of Political Science and International Relations.
View the Korea Foundation’s Youtube clip on the programme, or visit their Facebook page.