Charli Carpenter is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Legal Studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst specializing in international law and human security, and Director of Human Security Lab, an interdisciplinary initiative focused on science in the human interest. Her teaching and research interests include the protection of civilians, laws of war, humanitarian affairs, and humanitarian disarmament. She has published three books and numerous journal articles, held fellowships at the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt, Oakley Center, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has served as a consultant for the UN, DoS, USAID, DOD, and human rights NGO community, is a bi-weekly columnist at World Politics Review, and regularly contributes to Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs.

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Dr Laura Considine is an Associate Professor in International Politics at the University of Leeds and co-Director of the Centre for Global Security Challenges. Her current work focuses on conceptualizing nuclear weapons in international politics, feminist and everyday approaches to nuclear weapons and nuclear narratives. Her work has been published in International Affairs, International Theory, Review of International Studies and the European Journal of International Relations.

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Vincent Intondi is a Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. From 2009-2017, Intondi was Director of Research for American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute in Washington, DC. Prior to teaching at Montgomery College, Intondi was an Associate Professor of History at Seminole State College in Sanford, Florida. Intondi regularly works with organizations exploring ways to include more diverse voices in the nuclear disarmament movement. His research focuses on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons. He is the author of the books, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement(Stanford University Press, 2015) and Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023).

 

Olamide Samuel is a Track II diplomat working on arms control, nuclear politics and international security. Olamide is the Special Envoy of the Executive Secretary of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy. He also leads the NPT Project at the European Leadership Network. He is also a Research Associate in Nuclear Politics at the University of Leicester, after several years as a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS University of London. While at SOAS, Olamide lectured in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, teaching MA courses on International Security, and Diplomatic Practice. In addition, Olamideled the university’s global nuclear disarmament programme, SCRAP Weapons, from 2019 to 2021. He led the programme’s efforts to strengthen arms control diplomacy at the United Nations and African Union.

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Dr. Marina Kostić Šulejić is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Politics and Economics from Belgrade and Secretary General and Head of the Centre for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament of the Serbian based think-tank Professional Association of Security Sector (PASS), which is also a member of a European network of non-proliferation and disarmament think-tanks. Marina obtained her PhD in International and European Studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, by defending a dissertation titled “The conceptions of world order in the security policies of the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the European Union at the beginning of the 21st century.” She completed a two-year specialization in International Politics at the same Faculty, where she also graduated in International Affairs. During her studies, she was awarded two scholarships – by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Marina worked for several state institutions. On two occasions she was a mentor in the framework of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Internship programs(2022 and 2023), organized by PASS. Marina has published a dozen research papers dealing with international institutions and world order, strategic and nuclear arms control and non-proliferation, bilateral and regional relations in the Western Balkans, security issues in Serbia and its policy of military neutrality, as well as the EU enlargement policy. In 2022, Marinapublished a book titled “Strategic stability in a multipolar world”. She has participated in a number of national and international conferences, workshops and educational programs.

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Carolina Panico is a Doctoral Candidate in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland. Her research focuses on feminist poststructuralist interrogations of the global nuclear order. Carolina's Ph.D. project examines the emergence of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) with a specific focus on the contributions of small and middle-power states. Carolina is interested in feminist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial approaches to global politics, particularly international security, global governance, arms control and disarmament, and norm dynamics. She is a member of the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group, part of the Rethinking Deterrence Research Network, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and housed at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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Heba Taha is a scholar of Politics and International Relations. Her work lies at the intersection of political economy and security in the modern Middle East, particularly Israel/Palestine. Her doctoral work analyzes the role of Palestinians in Israeli capitalism, focusing on everyday encounters and non-conventional sites of contestation, such as high-tech firms and shopping centers. More recently, she is also researching nuclear histories and technologies in the Middle East, some of which has been published in Third World Quarterly, International Affairs, and Global Affairs. Her article on gender and visualization of the nuclear age in Egypt won the 2023 International Affairs Early Career Prize. She is also an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, where she collaborates with the Nuclear Knowledges research collective.

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