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Fafo lecture: Dr. Joanna Spear

Establishing Political Economies of Peace: The Role of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration

The New Security Programme at Fafo had the pleasure to host Dr. Joanna Spear who gave a public lecture Thursday, 10 February 2005.

Dr. Joanna Spear is the director of the U.S. Foreign Policy Institute at the Elliott School at George Washington University. She is an expert on U.S. arms sales policies, U.S. counterproliferation policies, and transatlantic relations. Dr Spear was formerly the Director of the Graduate Research Program and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. She is the author of Carter and Arms Sales and The Changing Political Economy of the Defense Trade (forthcoming), co-editor of The Changing Labour Party, and has written numerous chapters in books and articles. Her research interests also include the global defense trade and post-conflict reconstruction. Dr Spear has worked with the Governments of Japan and Norway on issues of small arms and political economies of conflict. She received her Ph.D. from Southampton University, UK.