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Chantal de Jonge Oudraat Chantal de Jonge Oudraat is the Executive Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) North America. Before joining SIPRI, Dr. de Jonge Oudraat was associate vice president and director of the U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program, an adjunct associate professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and a senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. In 2002, she was a recipient of the Robert Bosch Foundation Research Scholar Fellowship at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Johns Hopkins University. She has also served as co-director of the Managing Global Issues project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC (1998-2002); as research affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1994-1998); and a member of the directing staff at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva (1981-1994). Her areas of specialization are: international organizations, arms control and disarmament, terrorism, peacekeeping, use of force, economic sanctions, U.S.-European relations. Dr. de Jonge Oudraat is co-editor with Kathleen Kuehnast and Helga Hernes of Women and War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century (2011, USIP Press) and co-editor with P.J. Simmons of Managing Global Issues: Lessons (2001, Carnegie Endowment). Other recent publications include: "Play it Again, Uncle Sam: Transatlantic Relations, NATO and the European Union" in: Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World (2011, USIP Press), and with Jean-Luc Marret, "The Uses and Abuses of Terrorist Designations Lists," in: Martha Crenshaw, The Consequences of Counterterrorism (2010, Russell Sage). Dr. de Jonge Oudraat is a member of Women in International Security (WIIS) and served on its Executive Board (1998-2007) and as its vice president (2001-2007).
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Masha Keller Masha Keller holds an MSc in Politics and International Studies with a specialization in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University and a BA in Political Science with emphasis on International Relations from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining SIPRI North America, Masha worked as a Program Coordinator at an international development organization. She also worked as a Graduate Intern at Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict and as a Political-Military Analysis Intern at Hudson Institute.
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Shannon Zimmerman Shannon Zimmerman is currently a Masters student in the Conflict Resolution Program at Georgetown University. She recently returned from Tunis, Tunisia where she studied languages and conducted research on a Boren Fellowship. Her studies focus on embedded cultural norms as they relate to conflict and human security and the role and impact of peacekeeping missions. From 2007 to 2009, Shannon served as a youth development volunteer in Ukraine.
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Zachary Toal Zachary Toal is currently pursuing a double major in Peace, War and Defense (PWAD) and Contemporary European Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He recently completed an internship with the Institute for Defense and Business, during which he helped organize three seminars on Logistics Cooperation for Stabilization and Reconstruction. His interests include global affairs, international relations and organizations and conflict resolution.
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