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Dr.
Edward Laurance
Professor of International Policy Studies
(831)-647-4142
(Tel)
(831)-647-4199 (Fax)
(831-402-2631) Mobile
elaurance@miis.edu
Professor Laurance graduated
from the United States Military Academy in 1960. After ten years of
military
service in Germany, Vietnam and the U.S., he began his academic career
with an MA
from Temple University in Political Science in 1970,
and in
1973 received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in International Relations.
From June
1972 until September 1991 he was on the
faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Since September 1991 he has
been
Professor of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of
International Studies (MIIS), where he teaches courses in global
governance,
arms proliferation, security and development, public policy analysis
and
program evaluation.
Project Management
He has directed
three projects while at MIIS. From 1994 to 1996 he directed the Program
on
Conventional Arms Proliferation (CAP). The focus of CAP was on the
relationship
between arms buildups and conflict. His publications during this
project
included Arms Watch:
SIPRI Report on the
First Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms (Oxford
University
Press, 1993), written with Herbert Wulf and Siemon Wezeman, Developing
the UN Register of
Conventional Arms, (1994), (Co-Editor) and The
Role of Conventional Arms Buildups in the Outbreak of Conflict:
Developing Early Warning and Preventive Measures, a research report
funded
by the United States Institute for Peace.
From 1996 to
1998 he headed the Program on Arms Control, Disarmament and Conversion
(PACDC),
which maintained an events data base for small arms and light weapons.
PACDC
became the primary organization researching voluntary weapons turn-in,
collection, buy-back and destruction programs.
He is the author of The New Field
of Micro-Disarmament: Addressing the Proliferation and Buildup of Small
Arms
and Light Weapons (1996), and the primary author of “Small Arms
and Light
Weapons” in Conversion Survey 1997,
both published by the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC).
He is
also the author of a report for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing
Deadly
Conflict -Light
Weapons and Intra-State Conflict: Early Warning Factors and
Preventive Action. (July 1998) Other publications
include
"Small Arms, Light Weapons, and Conflict Prevention: The New Post-Cold
War
Logic of Disarmament" in Cases and
Strategies for Preventive Action (The Century Foundation Press,
1998), and
"Moratoriums
on Small Arms and Light Weapons: Conceptualization and
Application to Central America" in A
Moratorium on Light Weapons in West Africa (Norwegian Institute of
International Affairs, 1998).
From July 1998
until September 2000 was the director of the Program on Security and
Development which focused on the proliferation, availability and misuse
of
small arms and light weapons.
This project was the leading evaluator of voluntary weapons collection
programs
being conducted all over the world. These evaluations are posted on the
project
website, http://sand.miis.edu/. This
evaluation experience led to the publication of the leading guide on
developing
this type of program, recently published with BICC- Tackling Small Arms and Light Weapons: A
Practical Guide for Collection and Destruction.(Published in
five languages
and found at www.bicc.de). He is
also the
editor of Arms Watching: Integrating
Small Arms and Light Weapons Into the Early Warning of Violent Conflict.(London: International Alert, May
2000)
From January 1998 to May 1999
he was the
administrator of the Preparatory Committee (Prep Com) for a Global
Campaign on
Small Arms and Light Weapons, an Internet community of NGOs and
individuals
from over fifty countries dedicated to preparing for a global campaign
on small
arms and light weapons. He then served as a founding member of the
Facilitation
Committee (governing body) of the successor to Prep Com, the
International
Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) from May 1999 until October 2000 (www.iansa.org ).
Training and
education for global service
Dr. Laurance
developed and now administers the International Professional Service
Semester
in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies. He is
responsible for
negotiating junior staff positions for students wishing to serve six
months
with an international governmental organization (IGO) or transnational
or local
nongovernmental organization (NGO). He directs the preparatory session
in which
students take intensive training in skills such as cross-cultural
communication, conflict resolution, and organizational partnering. He
also
teaches a course in global governance.
Dr. Laurance
also teaches Program Evaluation, which features practical work in the
evaluation of programs being implemented at local NGOs in Monterey. All programs being evaluated
normally
involve clients from several cultures and ethnic groups, and the
evaluation
teams are multinational.
Multilateral
Experience
Dr. Laurance has
extensive experience at the multilateral level. He developed the
International
Organizations and Nonproliferation Project (IONP) at the Center for
Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), serving as director from 1992 until
1994. In
that capacity he developed the very successful internship program,
negotiating
agreements with the U.N. Department of Disarmament Affairs (DDA) in New
York;
the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva; the International Atomic
Energy
Agency (IAEA) in Vienna; and the Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical
Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague. He also teaches the primary course on
multilateralism at MIIS- International Organizations and Regimes. He
has just
been appointed head of a faculty committee charged with developing the
new Center
for Multilateral Practice at MIIS.
In 1992 and 1994
he served as the consultant to the UN Centre (now Department) for
Disarmament
Affairs on two United Nations panels charged with developing and
evaluating the
UN Register of Conventional Arms. He recently completed a major
assessment of
the UN Register: The United
Nations
Conventional Arms Register (UNCAR): Present Challenges, New Directions.
From May 1996 to
August 1997 he served as the consultant to the U.N. Panel of Experts on
Small
Arms, whose report to the Secretary-General was published in October
1997. In
October 2000 he was appointed as a consultant to the United Nations
Department
of Disarmament Affairs, with the primary assignment of supporting the
UN
Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all
its
Aspects, which was held in July 2001.
His global
service includes serving as a member of the International Advisory
Committee of
the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch since 1993. He has been on the
International Advisory Board of Small Arms Survey in Geneva since its inception in 1999.
He is a
member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System.
Research
and
Publications
Professor
Laurance has focused his research and professional activities on arms
acquisitions and their relationship to conflict. He has published
articles in
leading journals such as The Journal of
Conflict Resolution, International
Studies Quarterly, Armed Forces and Society, Orbis, Political Science
Quarterly, Washington Quarterly and
Policy Sciences. He has also written
chapters for sixteen
books and is a contributor to the SIPRI
Yearbook 1995. He is the author of The
International Arms Trade, (Lexington Books, 1992), co-author of Arms Watch: SIPRI Report on the First Year
of the UN Register of Conventional Arms (Oxford University Press,
1993),
written with Herbert Wulf and Siemon Wezeman, and also co-editor of Developing the UN Register of Conventional
Arms, (1994). In August 2001 he completed a major assessment of the
UN
Register: The United Nations Conventional
Arms Register (UNCAR): Present Challenges, New Directions.
He is the author of The Role of Conventional Arms Buildups in the Outbreak of
Conflict:
Developing Early Warning and Preventive Measures, a research report
funded
by the United States Institute for Peace; Light
Weapons and Intra-State Conflict: Early Warning Factors and Preventive
Action-
www.ccpdc.org
(July 1998), a report for
the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict; and the editor of Arms Watching:
Integrating Small Arms and
Light Weapons Into the Early Warning of Violent Conflict.(London:
International Alert, May 2000).
He was a
co-author with BICC
for the publication Tackling Small Arms
and Light Weapons: A Practical Guide for Collection and Destruction, an outgrowth of extensive research on
weapons collection programs (http://sand.miis.edu);
the author of The Role of Conventional Arms Buildups in
the Outbreak of Conflict: Developing Early Warning and Preventive
Measures,
a research report funded by the United States Institute for Peace; The New
Field of Micro-Disarmament: Addressing the Proliferation and Buildup of
Small
Arms and Light Weapons (BICC, 1996)( http://www.bicc.de/publications/briefs/brief07/content.html
); "Small Arms,
Light Weapons, and Conflict Prevention: The New Post-Cold War Logic of
Disarmament" in Cases and Strategies
for Preventive Action (The Century Foundation Press, 1998); and
"Moratoriums on Small Arms and Light Weapons: Conceptualization and
Application to Central America" in A
Moratorium on Light Weapons in West Africa (Norwegian Institute of
International Affairs, 1998).
His most recent publications
include “Shaping Global Public Policy on Small Arms: After the UN
Conference.”
(The Brown Journal of World Affairs,
Spring 2002); and the Occasional
Paper Making Global Public Policy: The Case of Small Arms and Light
Weapons,
published by Small Arms Survey in
Geneva. (http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/OPapers/OPaper7UNConference.pdf).
With William Godnick,
Dr. Laurance has published a case study for the Internet Forum on
Conflict
Prevention Case Studies, sponsored by the UN Office of the Coordinator
for
Humanitarian Affairs: Goods
for Guns in
El Salvador: An Assessment of a Voluntary Weapons Collection Program,
a
weapons collection program implemented by the business community in El
Salvador in 1996.
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