Loretta Bondì directs the Cooperative Security Program at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations. She is also a member of the Resource Group advising the UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. A former journalist, Ms. Bondì joined the nongovernmental organizations’ community in 1996, first at American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), and subsequently at Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. She was Advocacy Director with The Fund for Peace from March 2001 to November 2002. Ms. Bondì had previously co-founded the Arms and Conflict Program of The Fund for Peace. She is a co-founder and a leading member of the International Action Network on Small Arms, an international coalition of 500 NGOs, and has participated in campaigns ranging from conflict diamonds, to child soldiers, and to the International Criminal Court. Ms. Bondì conceived and framed an international convention to control arms trafficking as well as other legislation. She was a member of the group of governmental and nongovernmental experts which advises the U.N. Secretariat and Security Council on targeted sanctions. As a foreign correspondent, Ms. Bondì worked in Europe and South East Asia for major European publications, including Corriere della Sera, Italy’s leading newspaper, and L’Espresso newsmagazine. She was also a broadcaster with RAI, Radiotelevisione Italiana. She has published hundreds of articles, including a series based on her discovery of Ferdinand Marcos’s secret diaries. Recent Publications: Beyond the Border and Across the Atlantic: Mexico's Foreign and Security Policy post-September 11th Opinions: A Series (editor) Shoulder to Shoulder: Views from Government and Civil Society on Cooperative Security "Arms Trafficking Danger, U.S. Should Join UN Effort Against It", Washington Times--December 29, 2003. "The Interwoven Threat of Arms Trafficking and Terrorism: a Challenge to Cooperative Security" Before the US Southern Command Conference on Illicit Arms Trafficking on July 15-16, 2003, Miami, FL Other publications : "Legitimacy and Legality: Key Issues in the Fight against Terrorism" (The Fund for Peace, September 2002); In Name Only? in Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); “Disillusioned NGOs Blame the United States for a Weak Agreement,” SAIS Review 22.1, Winter-Spring 2002; Arms Embargoes in Smart Sanctions: The Next Steps (Bonn International Center for Conversion Studies, 2001), Expanding the Net: A Model Convention on Arms Brokering (The Fund for Peace, 2001); Casting the Net? Implications of the U.S. Law on Arms Brokering (co-author, The Fund for Peace, 2001); South Africa. A Question of Principle: Arms Trade and Human Rights (Human Rights Watch, 2000); Arsenals on the Cheap: NATO Expansion and the Arms Cascade (Human Rights Watch, 1999); Diari di un Dittatore: Ferdinand Marcos si Racconta (Diaries of a Dictator: Ferdinand Marcos Tells His Story) (Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera series, 1989).
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