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Contents

Foreword v
Acknowledgements xi

My experience as a United Nations Disarmament Fellow 1

Tejaswinee Burumdoyal
2017 Disarmament Fellow (Mauritius)

A programme with high professional value: A booster

for excellence of young multilateral disarmament diplomats 7
Radoslav Deyanov
1979 Disarmament Fellow (Bulgaria)

Every quest needs a fellowship 15

Amandeep S. Gill
1999 Disarmament Fellow (India)

Memories of a United Nations Disarmament Fellow 21

Rafael Mariano Grossi
1986 Disarmament Fellow (Argentina)

Bridging divides and building friendships 25

Chris King
2007 Disarmament Fellow (Australia)

In commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the

United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament 32
Shorna-Kay Richards
2005 Disarmament Fellow (Jamaica)

The Fellowship of 1980 and my encounter with the

Salle du Conseil of the Palais des Nations in Geneva 42
Tibor Tóth
1980 Disarmament Fellow (Hungary)

Appendix
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Foreword

As the coordinator of the United Nations Programme of

Fellowships on Disarmament since 2014, I have never been a
Fellow myself—and, sadly, I no longer meet all the criteria to
qualify. But my connection to the Programme dates back to the
start of my diplomatic career in the mid-1980s, when two former
Fellows who shared my office gave me some early insight into
what makes this annual training so remarkable.

Back then, I was working in an area of multilateral

diplomacy completely unrelated to disarmament. Nonetheless,
as my office’s most junior recruit, I was assigned in 1985 to
co-organize a programme study visit to my country.
The Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament was still
young at that time, having convened its first “class” in 1980, just
one year after its establishment, at the initiative of Nigeria, by
the first special session of the United Nations General Assembly
devoted to disarmament.
Yet, despite its short history, the Programme was already
an institution. In fact, one of “my” Fellows would later describe
it as “legendary”.
Its main goal was, and remains, “to promote expertise in
disarmament in more Member States, particularly in developing
countries”. Its curriculum provides training in negotiation and
multilateral diplomacy, honing the ability of Fellows to bridge
divides on disarmament issues through innovative thinking,
proactive dialogue and effective coordination with international
colleagues. Participants gain a nuanced understanding of the
complex factors that can foster or undermine disarmament
efforts, and they develop critical thinking skills that enable them
to leverage their deepened knowledge into effective multilateral
action. In this process, Fellows also develop subject-matter

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 expertise and witness, through in-person study visits, the
impacts of weapons use on the environment, on international
security and on individual lives.
The Fellowship Programme incorporates educational
lectures, round tables and panel discussions with senior
diplomats and representatives of international organizations,
academia and civil society. Fellows take part in practical
exercises like tests, simulation exercises and seminars,
while also interacting directly with hibakusha and visiting
disarmament-related sites around the world. Finally, each
participant develops a research paper and presents it to peers.
The Programme is usually organized in three parts. It
begins in Geneva with a curriculum focused mostly on the work
of the Conference on Disarmament and on several disarmament
and arms control treaty regimes. This segment also provides a
basic introduction to various legal frameworks, weapon types
and organs of the multilateral disarmament machinery.
Its second component comprises study visits to relevant
intergovernmental organizations and Member States, at their
invitation. Typical hosts have included the International
Atomic Energy Agency, the Preparatory Commission for the
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and
the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control
of Nuclear Materials, as well as China, Germany, Japan,
Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland and European
Union institutions. Other hosts of these visits have included
Bulgaria, the former Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, the
former German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Romania,
Sweden, the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the
United States of America.
The third part of the Programme, held at United Nations
Headquarters in New York, is centred on the First Committee
of the General Assembly, as well as other United Nations
disarmament and arms control-related mechanisms. Fellows

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also finalize and present their research papers during this
segment.
In the 40 years since its establishment, the annual
Programme has trained 1,033 Fellows from 170 countries (see
appendix).
But while these facts and statistics provide an accurate
description of the Fellowship Programme, they hardly convey
what makes it so unique, so celebrated, so “legendary”. The
reader will hopefully find some answers in this Occasional
Paper, which presents the thoughts and memories of seven
former Disarmament Fellows representing several generations.
First, though, allow me to share my perspective as a
coordinator of an experience that many Fellows have described
as a “once-in-a-lifetime” event.
The Programme takes its participants on a journey—a very
exciting one, but, believe me, not a lazy or relaxing junket for
participants to breezily take in disarmament reliquiae in exotic
locales. Its rigid curriculum is typically packed with lectures,
exercises, discussions and study visits, all of which feed into a
constant jet lag that makes a quick nap, stolen on a short flight
or train ride, a real luxury.
It is a journey linking the past with the present and future,
where the horrifying recollections of hibakusha and other
victims of violence make plain the need to pursue a world free
from nuclear weapons and armed conflicts.
It is a journey that creates lasting personal and professional
bonds among participants, all of whom bring unique perspectives
informed by their different nationalities, cultures, educations
and religious views. Fellows may come from countries that lack
diplomatic ties or are even at war, yet they learn to live together,
talk to one another and understand each other. It is amazing
each year to witness a group of distinct personalities coalesce
within a few weeks into a strong, friendly, cohesive and mutually
supportive team.

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Fellows seen during a guided tour near the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan, in October 2015.
Peter Kolarov is seen on the far left.

It is a journey that builds a unique sense of community, as

well as friendships that can last for life. “Once a Fellow, always a
Fellow”, one author in this publication used to say. These words
probably best capture the inimitable spirit of community shared
by all former Fellows, regardless of their individual experiences
during the Programme. It is fascinating to observe, again
and again, the very special rapport that emerges immediately
among Fellows from different classes, generations, countries or
diplomatic ranks when they meet each other for the first time.
It is a journey that, in some cases, transforms total strangers
to disarmament and arms control issues into avid promoters
of peace, non-violence and cooperation among peoples and
civilizations.
It is a journey that combines challenges and opportunities
and provides young professionals, mostly diplomats, with
a unique chance to directly interact and network with key

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representatives of the disarmament community, thus shaping
and boosting hundreds of careers.
Needless to say, achieving all of this is a year-round
undertaking for the Programme’s organizers. It represents an
enormous administrative, logistical and substantive challenge,
from selecting candidates, to identifying priority topics, to
coordinating visits, to addressing routine visa and medical
problems.
But, in the view of this author, there is no greater satisfaction
in coordinating the Programme than seeing its steadily growing
pool of alumni apply their leadership, professional engagement
and negotiation skills at all levels and across the whole
spectrum of disarmament and arms control efforts. What better
validation could one seek of the General Assembly’s decision
to establish the Programme at its first special session devoted to
disarmament? In New York and Geneva, The Hague and national
capitals alike, its results are tangible.
It is worth stressing that this Programme is a collective
effort. Its implementation would be impossible without
the active involvement of colleagues from the diplomatic
community, the United Nations and other international
organizations, civil society, and academia who selflessly share
their time, knowledge and professional experiences with a new
class of Disarmament Fellows each year. Their contributions are
crucial to the Programme’s success.
As the Programme is far more than a simple educational
tool, it also depends on the generous and invaluable support
of several Member States that host study visits by Fellows
every year. In addition to providing useful information on
each country’s priorities, these visits offer unique, first-hand
perspectives on an array of activities related to disarmament and
arms control. Fellows have travelled to industrial sites used to
destroy obsolete conventional weapons; fields contaminated by
landmines and explosive remnants of war; the Semipalatinsk
nuclear test site; nuclear reactors and a tokamak; a nuclear

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 fuel production plant; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; chemical and
biological weapon-related sites and laboratories; and the Korean
Demilitarized Zone, to name just a few past destinations.
Finally, in addition to the undivided support of Member
States, this programme could not be possible without the
dedicated work of the United Nations staff who have created,
shaped and sustained it through the years, in particular the
Programme coordinators Ogunsola Ogunbanwo (from 1979
to 1997), Silvana da Silva (from 1998 to 1999), Jerzy Zaleski
(from 2000 to 2009), Valère Mantels (from 2010 to 2011) and
Xiaoyu Wang (from 2012 to 2013). These past coordinators
benefited from the tireless assistance of Annette Ekberg and
Hanan Twal.
This author also wishes to express his wholehearted
appreciation and gratitude for the friendship and dedication of
Vivian Njume-Ebong and Jenny Fuchs, who have each been
vital to the Programme’s success since 2006.
“Legendary” the Programme is, and lucky are those who
had or will have the chance to graduate into the family of
United Nations Disarmament Fellows. Although I will never be
a Fellow myself, the Programme will always have a place in my
heart.

Peter Kolarov
Coordinator, United Nations Programme
of Fellowships on Disarmament
October 2020

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Acknowledgements

Tejaswinee Burumdoyal
Tejaswinee Burumdoyal was born and bred in
Mauritius. After completing her first degree in
Economics and International Relations at the
University of Mauritius, she pursued an LL.M in
International Law at the University of
Nottingham, United Kingdom. She joined the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mauritius in 2016 as Second
Secretary and served as desk officer for disarmament, elections and
other United Nations–related issues. She was also involved in the
drafting of the first Voluntary National Review on the Sustainable
Development Goals presented by Mauritius in 2019. She is a proud
graduate of the 2017 United Nations Fellowship on Disarmament
and is currently serving at the Permanent Mission of Mauritius in
Geneva.

Radoslav Deyanov
Radoslav Deyanov, PhD, is a career diplomat
(Minister Plenipotentiary, 1975–2012) with
extensive experience as representative of
Bulgaria to, and as an international civil servant
in, the United Nations system of international
organizations, covering matters of peace,
international and national security, non-proliferation, arms control
and disarmament. He occupied senior managerial positions in the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (1997–
2004) and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (2006–2013), served in
three United Nations study groups of qualified governmental
experts (on nuclear-weapons-free zones, nuclear weapons and
prevention of an arms race in outer space), and was President of the

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 Conference on Disarmament (February 1993, Geneva). He is
currently serving as Independent Consultant in RAD Consulting
and as Senior Fellow in the Economic and International Relations
Institute, Sofia.

Amandeep S. Gill
Amandeep Gill, PhD, was Ambassador and
Permanent Representative of India to the
Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from
2016 to 2018 and Executive Director of the
United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level
Panel on Digital Cooperation (2018–2019). He is
currently serving as Project Lead at the International Digital Health
and AI Research Collaborative and as Senior Fellow at the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies,
Geneva. His book Nuclear Security Summits: A History (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2020) uses the theoretical construct of international
learning framework to describe the history of the idea of nuclear
security and of the Nuclear Security Summits process from 2010 to
2016.

Rafael Mariano Grossi

Rafael Mariano Grossi was elected Director
General of the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) in October 2019 and took up
office on 3 December that year. A veteran
diplomat and expert in non-proliferation and
disarmament, he had served as Argentina’s
Ambassador to the International Organizations in Vienna since
2013. He joined Argentina’s foreign service in 1985 and had early
postings in Geneva and Brussels. From 2002 to 2007, he was Chief
of Cabinet in the Office of the Director General of the Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. After
serving for several years as Director-General for Political
Coordination at the Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires, he moved in
2010 to Vienna, where he worked as Chief of Cabinet and Assistant

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Director General for Policy at IAEA until 2013. He was Chairman
of the Nuclear Suppliers Group from 2014 to 2016 and served as
President of the Diplomatic Conference of the Convention on
Nuclear Safety in 2015. He was designated as President of the 2020
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference but did not
take up this position because of his election as IAEA Director
General. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the Pontifical
Catholic University of Argentina, as well as a PhD and an M.A. in
International Relations from the University of Geneva. Born in
1961, he is married and has eight children.

Chris King
Chris King is the Senior Political Affairs Officer
in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch of
the United Nations Office for Disarmament
Affairs (UNODA). He also previously served as
head of the Strategic Planning Unit and the
Science and Technology Unit in UNODA.
Before joining the United Nations, Chris served in the Australian
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including in India and
Iraq. He was Acting Director of the Arms Control Section,
responsible for Australian disarmament and non-proliferation
policy, and an adviser to former Australian Foreign Minister Kevin
Rudd.

Shorna-Kay Richards
A career diplomat, Shorna-Kay Richards is
currently the Director of the Bilateral Relations
Department in Jamaica’s Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Foreign Trade and the country’s
Ambassador-Designate to Japan. She was the
Deputy Permanent Representative of Jamaica to
the United Nations, New York, from September 2012 to August
2016. During this assignment, she served as Vice-Chair of the
United Nations Disarmament Commission and was a facilitator for
the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations and a lead negotiator during the

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on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. She also served at the
Jamaican Missions in South Africa and Washington, DC. She holds
a master’s degree in International Policy and Practice from the
George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from
the University of the West Indies.

Tibor Tóth
Tibor Tóth is Executive Secretary Emeritus of the
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO);
he served the organization from 2005 to 2013. He
is a Fellow and Trustee of the Board of the World
Academy of Art and Science. From 2011 to 2013,
he was member and later Chair of the World Economic Forum’s
Weapons of Mass Destruction Global Agenda Council. He served as
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Hungary to the
United Nations Office in Geneva (1990–1993 and 2003–2005),
Vienna (1997–2001) and The Hague (1993). He represented
Hungary at the Conference on Disarmament, the Preparatory
Commission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the CTBTO.
From 1986 to 2012, he participated in all sessions of the United
Nations General Assembly and its First Committee in New York. He
served as Deputy State Secretary of Defense responsible for
international affairs (1994–1996). As Chair, he led the all the
negotiations on an implementation regime for the Biological
Weapon Convention (1991–2003). He negotiated the provisions on
the Executive Council of the Chemical Weapons Convention and
triggered in 1996 the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons
Convention through Hungary’s decisive ratification.

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My experience as a United Nations
Disarmament Fellow
Tejaswinee Burumdoyal
2017 Disarmament Fellow (Mauritius)

I was only 25 years old then.

I barely had 15 months of experience in the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs of Mauritius.
I was among the most junior in our cadre of diplomats,
many of whom had decades of service and multiple postings
behind them.
By luck, I must have been one of our few young members
who was familiar with the law of the sea. It was thus almost by
default that I was posted in the Multilateral Political Directorate
of the Ministry, which handles the United Nations and United
Nations–related issues.
During my first 15 months in that Ministry, I was groping
and fumbling with the files and issues I was given to handle. My
seniors will never admit it, but I must have taxed their patience
to the limit during that learning process.
In May 2017, I was among the lucky few selected by the
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) to
participate in the United Nations Programme of Fellowships on
Disarmament.

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Despite knowing that I was going to be part of a restricted

club—joined by fewer than 1,000 diplomats since its inception
in 1978—my heart was full of apprehension. I did not know
what was really expected of me, even though I had spoken with
some senior colleagues lucky enough to have participated in the
past.
Overwhelmed by all the information available, I started
to prepare by reading all the briefs I could find on the history
of disarmament and the position of Mauritius on every related
treaty and convention. All I knew was that I had to make the
most of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and make Mauritius
proud of me.
My worries were not restricted to the nuts and bolts of
the programme; they extended to my would-be fellows, who
would later turn into my international family. The only way to
overcome my initial inhibitions towards 24 other people from
24 different countries, 24 different backgrounds and 24 different
perspectives was to “e-meet”. That is how a quintessential
tool of our Fellowship turned out to be a WhatsApp group—a
technological marvel for which we could not have adequately
expressed our gratitude.
And thus, we began an adventure in August 2017 in
Geneva.
Even though I hailed from a multi-ethnic and multicultural
country, it was remarkable to experience the rich interactions—
and occasional clashes—between different cultures in our group
of 25 diplomats. For me, this interplay opened new windows of
understanding. The mix of cultures seemed like an Indian dish,
with various flavours mixing under heat to form a delicious
curry.
In my class of Fellows, I met intelligent people from
countries to which I had previously given little thought. These
individuals taught me, helped me grow into a more mature
person and gave me confidence that I was cut out to aim higher.

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These extraordinary people bestowed on me a new first name:

my initials, “TJ”.
I had never before seen a diverse group of individuals
share so inspiringly one another’s cultures. We celebrated
birthdays wherever we could. On a 12-hour train ride through
Kazakhstan, a Fellow from Israel bought us apples and honey in
celebration of the Jewish New Year.
During that adventure, I visited places I had never
expected to see in my lifetime. I never thought I would, for
instance, see places like the town of Kurchatov and the cities of
Harbin, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
During our visits, we interacted with people who described
their experiences.
The Hibakusha talked about that dreadful day when kith
and kin were sacrificed on the nuclear altar, when the burnt
bodies and charred remains of their parents were carried away
by the cool river waters, when homes and livelihoods were
reduced to ash and cinder by the mushroom cloud.
We heard stories of biological weapons testing in Harbin
and nuclear weapons testing at Semipalatinsk affecting the
anatomy of people, including newborns and the unborn.
In all those stories of suffering, one commonality emerged:
a wish to make the world safer for our children and theirs.
I was amazed by the human capacity to endure immense
suffering and, even then, find the optimism and will to work for
the greater good of humanity. It showed to me that the victims
of the past are no longer victims but realists. As they would say
in French, chaque personne apporte sa pierre à l’édifice. Each
person’s contribution was, and remains, an inspiration.
Administering the Fellowship Programme of is an
immense task for the United Nations Secretariat, but the
UNODA team—Peter Kolarov, Vivian Njume-Ebong and Jenny
Fuchs—provided an incredible support system at every step.
They made us feel at ease immediately.

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The author's class of Fellows poses by the “Stronger than Death” monument in Semey,
Kazakhstan, in September 2017.

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UNODA provided us with new tools and technologies. We

interacted with people of high calibre. Former Fellows who later
became Ambassadors involved with the First Committee were
present in Geneva and New York to talk to us about different
mechanisms under the disarmament umbrella.
The tools provided by UNODA were an eye-opener. To
say that I learned about new methods of work would certainly
be an understatement.
Every day brought new discoveries, taking me forward
from where I began. It was a process of personal evolution.
It was not easy. We dealt with pressure, fatigue and high
expectations, but we steadily navigated those difficulties over
the course of our pilgrimage.
And the United Nations Programme of Fellowships on
Disarmament is indeed a pilgrimage, one that starts each year in
Geneva and culminates at the Holy of Holies of diplomacy, the
United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Built following the horrors of the Second World War and
the failure of the League of Nations, the United Nations has
come to represent our shared desire to secure a better world. It
is not perfect; as a reflection of humanity, it cannot be and never
will. Yet the world has continued to gather there, reaffirming our
highest common hopes.
And that was probably the biggest lesson of our
Fellowship: we all shared the hope to make the world a better
place through disarmament.
When I came back to Mauritius, my perspective had
changed. I was more accepting. I was willing to learn more. I
was more open to people, to their cultures and backgrounds, for
I now knew the riches contained in every person.
My attitude towards my areas of responsibility had also
changed. I understood them better, perhaps in part through my
increased maturity. In hindsight, I now know that I returned
richer and better able to serve my country and the world.

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And my class of Fellows is now my international family.

We still celebrate every birthday, but on WhatsApp. We still
laugh about the moments we had together, but on Facebook.
And we call each other during debates on resolutions at the First
Committee, because, apart from being friends, we are also an
established network of diplomats.
Thank you, UNODA, for making me one of the lucky
members of this family in 2017.

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A programme with high professional
value: A booster for excellence of
young multilateral disarmament
diplomats
Radoslav Deyanov
1979 Disarmament Fellow (Bulgaria)

The United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament

is a useful instrument to promote professional expertise
in junior multilateral diplomats and assist the substantive
development of their disarmament careers. This programme has
been implemented successfully for more than 40 years. Since its
inception in 1978, it has trained more than 1,000 government
officials from 170 Member States. A large number of those
Fellows have acquired high-level positions of responsibility
within their own Governments or in intergovernmental
organizations. Former Fellows have been elected as Heads
of two specialized organizations within the United Nations
system—the current Director-General of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Executive Secretary
of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) for the period
2005–2013.

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I find it positive that the Fellowship Programme

undertakes annually to train young university graduates who are
involved in, or are about to commence work within, the political
structures of their Governments dealing with international
security, disarmament or related matters. The expectation is
that the programme would enhance the capacity of the awarded
candidates both to handle disarmament matters internally and to
help further advance their consideration at international forums.
I believe that the programme offers an excellent opportunity
for motivated junior diplomats to accelerate their development
of the necessary personal proficiency to deal successfully with
multilateral matters of international security and disarmament, a
process that normally takes up to seven years. To this end, it is a
privilege for the Fellows to benefit directly from the knowledge
of scholars from leading internationally recognized research
institutions, as well as senior diplomatic representatives with
extensive experience in negotiating multilateral, regional or
bilateral agreements.
The lectures, seminars and discussions arranged by the
United Nations Secretariat under this training programme
naturally focus on key political aspects of international security,
non-proliferation and disarmament. The most stimulating part
of the programme, however, seems to be the requirement for
all Fellows to develop, present and defend analytical papers
on disarmament matters that they themselves see as being
of particular importance for the national interests of their
countries. This type of work normally forms a significant
part of the daily work of multilateral diplomats. Hence, the
additional expertise and practical experience acquired in these
exercises likely enhances the Fellows’ ability to fulfil their
professional duties upon return to positions in their diplomatic
services, both in capitals and when assigned to permanent
missions to multilateral disarmament organizations. I believe
that the programme can thus also contribute to increasing the
efficiency of the decision-making bodies of these international
organizations.

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I personally benefited, as a junior multilateral diplomat,

from my enrollment in the first United Nations Disarmament
Fellowship Class, convened in 1979. I felt honoured to be
a member of a distinguished group of 19  young diplomats
of different schools of thought who studied, discussed and
performed “committee simulation exercises” together for
more than five months (26 June–29 November 1979). The
programme was organized and administered by the United
Nations Centre for Disarmament, now the United Nations
Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). In organizing the
programme, the Centre for Disarmament drew on expertise
from the United Nations system, Member States and relevant
research institutes in the field of international security and
disarmament. In particular, the programme widely utilized the
“know-how” of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament
Research (UNIDIR), the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute, IAEA, the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, universities and non-
governmental organizations. The lecturers were drawn from
as wide a group of countries as possible, both developed and
developing, in order to expose the Fellows to various shades
of opinion on most politically sensitive issues of security. At
that time, each disarmament Fellow was expected to prepare
and defend to the Director of the Centre for Disarmament
two papers on disarmament subjects of their own choice: one
analytical research paper (in Geneva) and one draft United
Nations document—e.g., a resolution or a formal proposal for a
diplomatic action in a United Nations committee (in New York).
During the first segment (26 June–24 August) of the
Fellowship Programme, which took place at the United Nations
Office at Geneva (Palais des Nations), the 1979 Class focused
mainly on the work of the Committee on Disarmament (later on
enlarged and renamed as the Conference on Disarmament) as
the single independent multilateral negotiating body reporting
to the United Nations General Assembly. The group was
involved in discussions on different approaches to disarmament,

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On 1 October 1979, Alessandro Corradini, Director and Deputy to the Assistant

Secretary-General of the United Nations Centre for Disarmament, delivers remarks in
New York to the first participants of the United Nations Programme of Fellowships on
Disarmament.

particularly methods of verification of compliance with

legally binding agreements, procedural issues under current
consideration with the disarmament machinery, and specific
proposals for negotiation of disarmament measures put forward
by Member States. In addition, the Fellows were briefed on
the interim progress at the ongoing bilateral talks on strategic
nuclear arms limitations between the United States and the
Soviet Union negotiating teams based in Geneva. The second
segment (27–31  August 1979) offered a valuable opportunity
for the Fellows to become acquainted with the work of IAEA
in Vienna. The focus was on the activities to fulfil the main
functions of the Agency—under its Statute and the existing
optional “safeguards agreements”—to promote the peaceful
uses of atomic energy and to strengthen the verification role of
IAEA in monitoring compliance with the Treaty on the Non-
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Treaty). During the third segment, the programme’s training

continued at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
(4 September–29 November 1979) but also involved study
visits to the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and other
research institutions in Cambridge, Boston. The Fellows closely
followed the work of the United Nations General Assembly’s
First Committee and became more familiar with substantive and
technical activities undertaken by the United Nations Centre for
Disarmament.
I believe that being part of the Disarmament Fellowship
Class of 1979 was a valuable joint experience that allowed all
Fellows not only to improve their knowledge and diplomatic
skills but also to establish a number of useful professional
contacts within the United Nations system. During my career as
a multilateral disarmament diplomat, I enjoyed the cooperation
of a number of former Fellows holding positions within their
own Governments or serving as professional officers in
international bodies. These bodies have included the First
Committee, the Conference on Disarmament, IAEA, the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conferences, the Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), CTBTO and
all arms and dual-use export control regimes.
I particularly felt this “cooperation benefit” in my regular
contacts with UNODA when I was selected as an expert in
three United Nations study groups of qualified governmental
experts—on nuclear-weapon-free zones (1982–1985), on nuclear
weapons (1989–1990) and on confidence-building measures in
outer space (1991–1993). This type of working relationships
also greatly assisted my role as President of the Conference
of Disarmament in February and March 1993 and when the
OPCW Preparatory Commission in The Hague appointed me as
Chairman of its Working Group B (1995–1996), dealing with all
verification-related matters and procedures of implementation
of the Chemical Weapons Convention. The contacts established
during the Disarmament Fellowship Class of 1979 proved
extremely valuable after I became a professional staff member

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Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inspection equipment

is demonstrated in 2018 at the OPCW Laboratory and Equipment Store in Rijswijk,
Netherlands.

of the Technical Secretariat of OPCW (1997–2004) and of the

Provisional Technical Secretariat of the CTBTO Preparatory
Commission (2006–2013). I felt particularly honoured to be
among the “Founding Fathers” of OPCW when this disarmament
organization was awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. Every
staff member of the OPCW Technical Secretariat has received a
certificate signed by the Director-General recognizing his or her
substantive contribution to its disarmament achievements.
A couple of assignments in my long “disarmament
journey” have produced useful results through cooperation
with UNODA and UNIDIR. In these instances, I benefited from
professional relationships that began during my time as a Fellow
and continued during my diplomatic service as a member or
acting head of the delegation of Bulgaria to the Conference on
Disarmament (1980–1993).

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For instance, my “occasional paper” on security assurances

for non-nuclear weapon States (the so-called “negative security
assurances”) was developed in Geneva during the Disarmament
Fellowship Class of 1979, which laid the groundwork for my
subsequent active involvement in the Ad Hoc Committee of the
Conference on Disarmament on negative security assurances. I
used some of the ideas included in this fellowship paper when
I was assigned to serve for a number of years as “negative
security assurances coordinator” of the Eastern European group
of delegations and became the principal drafter of resolutions
on the subject regularly submitted by Bulgaria to the First
Committee. My accumulated insight on this agenda item has
helped me suggest some conceptual amendments to the main
approach to negative security assurances during this period.
After the political changes in Eastern Europe in 1989, these
considerations and other related developments have led to a
notable convergence in the approaches of nuclear-weapon States
to negative security assurances, particularly with respect to the
security of non-nuclear-weapon States parties to the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Yet another breakthrough in my exposure to issues of
international security and disarmament took place owing to my
close working relationships established during the Disarmament
Fellowship Class of 1979. In 1987, during my diplomatic
assignment to the Permanent Mission of Bulgaria to the United
Nations Office at Geneva, I was formally invited by UNIDIR
to write a monograph on the national concept of security of my
country. This invitation, which was accepted by the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs in Sofia, has produced a written product that
opened a new chapter in my diplomatic career and political
science research activity, particularly after completing my
diplomatic assignment in Geneva. Upon return to my country
and based on the monograph requested by UNIDIR, I became
deeply involved in security-related research and produced
papers dealing with issues of democratic Bulgaria’s external
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in these studies have helped develop a new vision of external

security for my country and assisted the Bulgarian Parliament in
considering the complex issues involved in its implementation.
I can now proudly say that my security-related “conceptual
journey”, as substantiated through a number of working
relationships with United Nations institutions and international
involvement in scientific projects, has stimulated my interest
and helped me contribute to the search for new foundations
for the external security of democratic Bulgaria, which is now
a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the
European Union.
In conclusion, on the basis of my personal experience with
the United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament,
and as evident from the professional benefits I have managed to
derive from my long disarmament journey, I remain convinced
that this programme is worth retaining for future generations.
The programme’s implementation to date has proved its
high professional value. It can definitely help devoted young
diplomats prepare better to meet the challenges lying ahead on
the way to better days in the field of multilateral disarmament.
Hence, I strongly recommend the United Nations Programme of
Fellowships on Disarmament to all junior diplomats interested
in developing a career dealing with the fascinating matters of
international security and multilateral disarmament.

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Every quest needs a fellowship
Amandeep S. Gill
1999 Disarmament Fellow (India)

Each cause requires its champions and every complex subject

its community of practice. Disarmament is no exception. The
practice of modern arms control and disarmament started with
The Hague conferences in 1899. A hodgepodge of disarmament
practitioners from diverse backgrounds emerged in the post-
World War I period after extensive references to the subject
were written into the Covenant of the League of Nations.
However, it was not until well after the San Francisco Charter
and the atomic turn that a distinct epistemic community came
into existence.1 Outside of a few States, and in many ways
within them as well, it was a volunteer transdisciplinary
community: self-taught and self-motivated, forced to learn by
the compulsions of international negotiations, technological
shifts and domestic policy turns.

The cold war arms race and the anxiety provoked by

thermonuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s expanded this
community beyond North America, Western Europe and the
Soviet Union. Valerian Zorin, John McCloy, Jules Moch,
General Andrew McNaughton, Bernard Bechhoefer, Lawrence

1
Jennifer Sims, Icarus Restrained: An Intellectual History Of Nuclear
Arms Control, 1945-1960, (Westview Press, 1990).

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Weiler, Thomas Schelling, Donald Brennan, Henry Kissinger,

Bertrand Russell, Philip Noel-Baker, Alva Myrdal, Arthur
Lall and Alfonso García Robles are some of the pioneering
thinker-practitioners from that era. In crucial ways, the
knowledge-makers of the cold war period influenced policy
within their countries and even across borders.2 Forums such as
the Pugwash Conferences became fertile venues for socializing
younger generations of disarmament advocates, and a few
specialized centres of education and policy research sprung up
at universities.
The first harvest of multilateral agreements on arms
control and non-proliferation in the late 1960s and the Viet Nam
War–era radicalization of youth on university campuses, which
forced Governments to broaden their approach to public opinion
on national security issues beyond elite communities, provided
a fillip to this process. The Center for International Security
and Cooperation at Stanford and the Centre for International
Politics, Organization and Disarmament at the Jawaharlal Nehru
University were thus set up in 1970, and the Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs at Harvard followed in 1973.
This still left a large number of countries bereft of
trained human resource to tackle the growing complexity of
disarmament negotiations. The agenda had expanded beyond
the terrifying weapons of mass destruction wielded by the cold
war titans. Disarmament’s links with development and human
security had become clearer, as had the possibilities for peaceful
uses of dual-use technologies in areas such as space and
nuclear power. The United Nations Secretariat’s role had also
become more prominent, not only in servicing the disarmament
machinery but also in producing expert studies and analysis to
back disarmament discussions. The scene was therefore set for

2
Emmanuel Adler, “The Emergence of Cooperation: National Epistemic
Communities and the International Evolution of the Idea of Nuclear
Arms Control”, International Organization, vol. 46, no. 1 (Winter,
1992), pp. 101–145.

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adding a multilateral component to disarmament education and

training when the first special session of the United Nations
General Assembly devoted to disarmament took place in 1978.
In paragraph 106 of the Final Document3 of that special
session, Governments and governmental and non-governmental
international organizations were urged to develop programmes
of education for disarmament and peace studies at all levels. In
paragraph 107, the General Assembly urged the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to step up its
programme aimed at the development of disarmament education
as a distinct field of study through the preparation of teachers’
guides, textbooks, readers and audio-visual materials. It also
called on United Nations Member States to encourage the
incorporation of such material into curricula of their educational
institutes. Finally, in paragraph 108, the Assembly established a
programme of fellowships on disarmament “in order to promote
expertise in disarmament in more Member States, particularly
in the developing countries”. Starting with the first batch of 19
Fellows in 1979, and over four decades, the programme has
trained more than a thousand government officials from 170
States in the field of disarmament.4 The growing participation of
women in the programme is particularly noteworthy.
A number of Disarmament Fellows have served their
Governments or international organizations with distinction.
However, anecdotal evidence suggests that most of the
delegates that attend disarmament meetings today in Geneva,
New York, Vienna and The Hague have not been through the
United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament
or similar programmes in their national education institutions.
They instead “learn on the job” from seniors and peers
and often struggle to maintain their motivation through
ritualistic meetings. It is hard to tell if this is due to a specific

3
General Assembly Official Records: Tenth Special Session, Supplement
No.4 (A/S-10/4), September 1978.
4
UNODA Fact Sheet, July 2020.

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At United Nations Headquarters, New York, Fellows draft a mock final document
during a simulation exercise in October 2015 for a meeting on the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

disarmament-related educational and motivational deficit or a

more general relegation of disarmament issues to a secondary
priority by Member States due to the absence of real negotiation
opportunities.
Another challenge facing disarmament education is the
rapid pace of technological development. The threat spectrum
has expanded beyond the neat categories of nuclear, biological,
chemical and conventional weapons due to these developments.
Who would have thought a decade ago that social media
could be weaponized and that commercial mobile telephony
could become a geopolitical issue? Different scientific fields
are also converging, making it difficult even for experts with
a background in biological, chemical or nuclear science to
understand developments at the junction of two or more fields.
Unlike the past, when technical expertise was readily available
within governments, many of the emerging technologies in
areas such as cybersecurity, gene drives, quantum computing

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and machine learning are dominated by the private sector. Too

often, there is no choice but to fall back on “language fixes”
or delaying tactics as capitals scramble to put together the
necessary transdiscipline expertise, and delegates catch up on
the underlying issues at stake by talking to those in the know.
A third challenge is the lack of stable financial resources
for education and capacity-building programmes, including the
United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament.
Capacity-building ends up being the orphan child for which no
one wants to take responsibility and which becomes the first
target of austerity when budgets come under pressure.
Against this background, what could be the future direction
for disarmament education in general and the Disarmament
Fellowship Programme in particular? I offer the following three
suggestions.
First, in addition to the annual Disarmament Fellowship
Programme, delegates attending disarmament meetings as
part of their regular jobs should be offered microlearning
opportunities in Geneva, New York, Vienna and The Hague.
Education modules customized to fit ongoing discussions or
negotiations should be developed in partnership with reputed
centres of learning. In addition to content delivered by outside
experts, these modules should deploy peer-to-peer learning by
leveraging expertise available within delegations.
Second, there should be a conscious effort to up the
technology content in disarmament education. Transdiscipline
learning should invariably be part of disarmament education
programmes. Research institutions and companies developing
emerging technologies of relevance to existing disarmament,
arms control or international humanitarian law instruments
could be partners in this exercise, for example, by hosting
participants or by providing subject matter experts.
Third, a conscious attempt should be made to turn the
Disarmament Fellowship alumni into a force for promoting
disarmament and international security. This is particularly

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Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the 2019 Disarmament Fellows at

United Nations Headquarters in New York on 22 October 2019.

important as faith in multilateralism erodes and rapid

powershifts change the political landscape. In practical terms,
this would mean giving a regular voice to Disarmament Fellows.
To begin with, a modern online platform could help the alumni
stay in touch with the latest developments and share knowledge,
experiences and views. A secure and anonymized polling system
for seeking inputs could be built into such a platform; this would
help, for example, the United Nations Office of Disarmament
Affairs check the global pulse on disarmament issues.
Recently, I had the privilege of speaking to the 2019 cohort
of Disarmament Fellows on the impact of new technologies on
means and methods of warfare. Their enthusiasm and dedication
to the subject of disarmament was heartwarming and the
diversity of skills and backgrounds within the group reassuring.
The programme was every bit as exciting as it was when we
packed our bags in 1999. The Fellowship is truly a global public
good. It deserves to be maintained and taken to the next level to
keep pace with the scale and spread of technological change and
the rapidly shifting international security scenario.

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Memories of a United Nations
Disarmament Fellow
Rafael Mariano Grossi
1986 Disarmament Fellow (Argentina)

I was selected to join the United Nations Programme of

Fellowships on Disarmament in 1986. I was a young third
secretary who had joined Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
the previous year and was already working on disarmament
issues. In those days, the programme lasted six months, from
July until the end of the year. We were really fortunate.

It was a fantastic programme and incredibly comprehensive.

The aim was to give us as full an understanding as possible of
everything to do with disarmament in the broadest sense.
The programme was structured around visits to the main
disarmament and non-proliferation forums in Geneva, Vienna
and the United Nations First Committee in New York. We
visited the Soviet Union, representing the Warsaw Pact, West
Germany, representing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,
and Japan. We also went to the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute.
In Geneva, the United Nations Conference on
Disarmament was working on issues such as chemical weapons
and what became the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
Participants from across the cold war divide in the Geneva

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talks were generous in sharing their knowledge with their

youthful visitors. We had lectures from the Chairs of all the ad
hoc committees—for example, on outer space and on negative
security assurances. We gained a thorough understanding
of the substantive issues and of the positions of the major
players. We met the world’s leading seismic experts, some of
whom ended up working for the Preparatory Commission for
the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
(CTBTO).
We came to the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) in Vienna just a few months after the Chernobyl
accident, which had happened in April. It was a fascinating
time. Member States had started sharing information about
their nuclear power programmes more openly and were
finalizing negotiations on two major new conventions—on
early notification of nuclear accidents and on assistance in the
case of a nuclear accident. I still remember my very positive
first impressions of the Agency and of Vienna, which has since
become my second home. I was especially impressed by IAEA
Director General Hans Blix.
Possibly the most memorable experiences were our visits
to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, sites of the two devastating
atomic bombings in August 1945. We were privileged to meet
some hibakusha, as the survivors are known. I was one of the
members of our group selected to lay a wreath at the Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Park. This was very moving.
Fellows were required to write a paper. I did mine
on nuclear verification. This was before the crises over the
nuclear programmes of Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran and
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and before the
introduction of the Additional Protocol to the Comprehensive
Safeguards Agreements that countries conclude with the
IAEA. To those of us passionate about disarmament and non-
proliferation, this period now seems like ancient history.

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We learned a lot as United Nations Disarmament Fellows,

but the experience of travelling all over the world with a group
of clever young people of the same age, and with similar
interests, was also great fun. More fundamentally, I now realize

Disarmament Fellows visit the nuclear test site at Kurchatov, Kazakhstan, on

20 September 2019.

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it opened my mind and made me truly sensitive and attentive to

cultural, religious and political differences and nuances. This is
indispensable in the international field. Many of my year group
have kept in touch over the years and many have taken on senior
positions in their Governments.
My country, Argentina, takes the Fellowship Programme
very seriously. My wife Cinthia Echavarria was a Fellow
10 years after me and is currently working at CTBTO. The Head
of Disarmament in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gabriela
Martinic, also participated in the programme. Mariela Fogante,
another former Fellow from Argentina, has joined me as my
Special Assistant at the IAEA.
I have made a point of meeting current Fellows
throughout my career, including when I was Chef de Cabinet
at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
Assistant Director General for Policy at the IAEA and, more
recently, as Argentinian Ambassador to the IAEA and other
international organisations in Vienna. I plan to continue to do so
as IAEA Director General.
Looking back after more than three decades, I am
extremely grateful for the wonderful opportunities provided by
the United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament.
It was a great privilege to be selected. It gave me a thorough
grounding in disarmament and non-proliferation that has served
me well in 35 years of working in this fascinating field.

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Bridging divides and building
friendships
Chris King
2007 Disarmament Fellow (Australia)

The United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament

is, quite simply, one of the best initiatives undertaken by the
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs or, indeed, the
United Nations as a whole.

It is the rare beast that manages to combine an in-depth

substantive educational experience, a gentle introduction to
United Nations process and intergovernmental negotiation
(albeit simulated), with a strong dose of cross-cultural
awareness-raising.
This heady cocktail produces the best of outcomes—
the ability to appreciate the positions of others based on an
understanding of background, context and history.
Perhaps most importantly, the fellowship creates a network
of peers, colleagues and even friends, all of whom have a shared
experience that engenders life-long memories and connections.
From Geneva to Vienna to The Hague to Beijing to Tokyo
and Nagasaki and Hiroshima and finally New York, we travelled
together, lived together, ate together and argued together. Across
languages, religions, political persuasions and upbringings, we
built habits of engagement and dialogue.

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Every crop of Disarmament Fellows undertakes its

programme against the backdrop of the current international
climate. In late 2007, the disarmament-related headlines were
dominated by reliable replacement warheads, robust nuclear
earth penetrators, the pending expiry of the Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty and its verification mechanism, and concerns
that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons
programme could spark another conflict in the Middle East or
even a “proliferation cascade”.
There was no Obama and no Prague Statement. Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon was a year away from releasing his
5-point proposal on disarmament, and the Nobel Prize winning
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was in its
infancy.
And yet I came away from the nearly three-month
fellowship imbued with a strong sense of optimism that the
world could be made a safer and more secure place. It was an
optimism built on face-to-face encounters with experts and
policymakers, the development of a sound understanding of
the United Nations “disarmament machinery” and, above all,
countless—countless—back-and-forth debates with my fellow
Fellows.
My optimism was not built on a utopian view that the
world would disarm overnight but rather an understanding of
the history and nuances of disarmament and non-proliferation,
combined with a better appreciation of the positions and values
of others.
I suspect much of this fell into place on one night. I was
sitting on an overpass in Nagasaki, eating ice cream with two
other Fellows. We were discussing what we had witnessed on
a day during which we had been privileged to meet some of the
hibakusha—the survivors of the atomic bombings. The meeting
took place in a nursing home for survivors and much of the day
was taken up with fun activities, such as tea ceremonies and
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our visit. We sat and listened as the hibakusha—many of them

bearing the keloid scars resulting from the events of 9 August
1945—described in excruciating and emotional detail their
experiences: the physical pain they endured, the carnage they
witnessed, the loved ones who were vaporized in seconds
as their city was set on fire, and the tragic legacies of social
ostracization and mental illness.
They begged us, diplomats from around the world, to take
urgent action to make sure such devastation was never visited
again upon anyone, anywhere.
The human face of nuclear war was a wake-up call. Sitting
on that overpass, my colleagues and I agreed that this issue was
bigger than us, bigger than single States and something that
we had a responsibility to achieve. We might disagree on the
methods, but we all agreed on the goal—a world free of nuclear
weapons. It was our job to bridge those disagreements and reach
that goal.
Today’s international security environment makes 2007
look positively benign. As Secretary-General António Guterres
has said, elements of the global arms control regime are
collapsing. Relationships between nuclear-armed States are
deteriorating. Norms thought inviolable, such as the non-use
of chemical weapons, are eroding. Dialogue is largely absent
and is marred by mistrust and fears of cheating. The hard-won
gains of the past three decades are being discarded in favour
of unrestrained strategic competition, at the expense of the
collective security of the world’s peoples.
We live in a world in which, as High Representative for
Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu has rightly noted, “the
potential use of nuclear weapons, either intentionally, through
accident or miscalculation, is higher than it has been since the
darkest days of the cold war”.
The divisions between Member States are on prominent
display in the various multilateral disarmament forums. In
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Nuclear Weapons, yawning gulfs are appearing over issues

that many have traditionally regarded as common ground.
There are disputes between—and among—nuclear-weapon
States and non-nuclear-weapon States. Regional proliferation
challenges, the pace and scale of disarmament, compliance with
commitments and obligations—these issues plague proceedings.
Perhaps, worst of all, the appetite to negotiate in good faith
appears to be withering.
In today’s difficult context, initiatives such as the
Fellowship are needed as much as ever. Opportunities for young
people representing myriad Governments to learn together
and engage in dialogue are vital to the pursuit of diplomatic
and multilateral solutions that address the challenges posed by
weapons of mass destruction, the proliferation of conventional
weapons and the emergence of new means and methods of
warfare.

Anti-improvised explosive device and demining techniques are demonstrated to

Disarmament Fellows in 2015 at the Nuclear-Biological-Chemical-Explosive Ordnance
Disposal Centre of Competence of the Swiss Armed Forces in Thun, Switzerland.

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The Disarmament Fellowship Programme is a cost-

effective mechanism to build relationships and bridges between
States on these issues and to forge habits of cooperation. Doing
so among young diplomats is especially important because it
provides a framework for career-long connections. I may not
see my former Fellows on a day-to-day basis, but I know that if
I do, our shared experience will always provide a platform for
conversations.
The Fellowship is an educational opportunity for all States,
but especially developing States. The deliberations surrounding
disarmament issues, be they in Geneva, Vienna or New York, are
at once both technical and arcane. Many States simply do not
have the capacity or resources to engage or even follow them.
By providing access to experts in the field, facilitating
visits to symbolic venues such as Hiroshima or Semipalatinsk,
and placing Fellows in the heart of multilateral discussions
such as those in the First Committee of the United Nations
General Assembly, the Fellowship helps to build expertise and
understanding.

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Building the capacity of all States to engage in

intergovernmental deliberations provides necessary new voices
and views that not only enrich those dialogues, but also drive
forward the very mission of the United Nations.
The need for technically literate diplomats will never
dissipate. In fact, it is likely to escalate in the coming years,
because this field can no longer be neatly divided into
“conventional weapons” and “weapons of mass destruction”.
As warfare spreads into new domains of cyber and outer space,
as revolutionarily technological advances such as artificial
intelligence are militarized, and as scientific innovations such as
synthetic biology lower the barriers to biological weapons, the
Fellowship will become a forum in which representatives from
all States can address the challenges posed by technology while
seeking to maximize the benefits, including for international
peace and security.
The Fellowship today is increasingly progressive as
the Office for Disarmament Affairs demands gender parity
among participants. Equal engagement by men and women in
deliberations on peace and security produces better results for
everyone. Strengthening the role of women in disarmament
and ensuring that disarmament discussions take the gendered
impacts of weapons into account are effective and underutilized
strategies to advance the goals in disarmament, non-proliferation
and arms control.
As High Representative Nakamitsu said during the
First Committee in 2018, “Women remain chronically
underrepresented at intergovernmental discussions and
negotiations on disarmament. At any given international
meeting of Governments on disarmament, only one in four
delegates are women. Among heads of delegations, this figure is
even worse.”
By aiming for gender parity in its ranks, the Fellowship
seeks to help rectify this disproportionality.

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Likewise, one of the animating principles of the

Fellowship is to narrow the divides between States. To do so, it
brings together nuclear-weapon States, regional competitors and
non-nuclear-weapon States from all over the world. It places
them in situations where they need to think beyond their own
national positions or personal points of view.
To a certain extent, this is achieved by listening to other
perspectives and through scenario-based simulations that allow
Fellows to “road test” another State’s national positions, gaining
an insight into their more nuanced elements. However, much of
it is also derived from what I have already called the “human
face”. The Fellowship encourages its participants to see the
problems posed by weapons as important for all of humanity, as
an issue of collective security. Meeting the victims of weapons,
including nuclear weapons and nuclear testing, is a key element
in this respect.
As I said at the beginning of this essay, the Disarmament
Fellowship is one of the best initiatives undertaken by the
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. It is a practical,
forward-looking and inclusive mechanism that produces
tangible results. I have had the privilege of interacting with
many “batches” of Fellows in the years since my own, and I
am always struck by the bonds between them. Disarmament,
especially nuclear disarmament, is hard work. The Fellowship
seeks to lessen that burden by creating the relationships and
providing the in-depth knowledge that will produce common
ground and common vision for a safer and more secure world.

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 In commemoration of the fortieth
anniversary of the United Nations
Programme of Fellowships on
Disarmament
Shorna-Kay Richards
2005 Disarmament Fellow (Jamaica)

There is no greater duty to be performed by the United Nations

than the maintenance of international peace and security—two
prerequisites to the attainment of sustainable development.
Thanks to the United Nations Programme of Fellowships
on Disarmament, I have been technically empowered and
deeply inspired to carry out the work of my country, Jamaica,
in advancing this noble duty. As a proud recipient of this
Fellowship in 2005, I welcome the opportunity that the
commemoration of the Programme’s fortieth anniversary
provides to reflect on its impact on my career in the Jamaican
Foreign Service.

Thirteen years ago, I travelled to Geneva to commence

two months of intensive studies in the areas of disarmament,
non-proliferation and arms control under the Fellowship
Programme. On arrival in Geneva, I learned that the selection
panel had initially been hesitant in granting me the fellowship,
as Jamaica had a poor track record of assigning its participants

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to the United Nations, and in cases where this had been done, it
was never to the Committee on Disarmament and International
Security (First Committee). However, the two essays I
submitted on small arms control and nuclear weapons in support
of my application convinced the panel to accept me.

First promise: First Committee delegate

This knowledge led to the first of two promises that I
made during the programme, which would shape my career
path towards disarmament. The first was to become a delegate
to the First Committee. It took seven years to do so. In
September 2012, when I was appointed to the post of Deputy
Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations,
in fulfillment of this promise, I immediately chose to cover the
First Committee instead of the Budget Committee, which my
predecessor had covered.
As First Committee delegate from September 2012 to
July 2016, I had ample opportunity to make good use of the
knowledge and experiences gained as a Disarmament Fellow. In
particular, I was able to participate actively in the negotiations
of the Arms Trade Treaty, a major foreign policy objective
for Jamaica and fellow States of the Caribbean Community
(CARICOM). I also served as First Committee Coordinator
for CARICOM countries, ensuring that our region of Small
Island Developing States (SIDS) participated actively in the
Committee’s deliberations, not only in the general debate but
also in the thematic debates on conventional weapons, nuclear
weapons and regional disarmament and security.
I am particularly proud of the fact that Jamaica had the
opportunity to chair the Committee in 2014 during my tenure.
Indeed, when the opportunity arose to elect the Committee’s
Chair from among the Member States of the Latin American
and Caribbean Group, I successfully lobbied our Permanent
Representative, Ambassador Courtenay Rattray, and my
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I highlighted the contribution that a small State, like Jamaica,

could make in guiding the work of this important Committee.
This was the second time that a CARICOM member State
chaired the Committee.
One of the highlights of Jamaica’s chairmanship was to
successfully address the speaking arrangement for civil society
participants, thereby ensuring that their invaluable contribution
to the debate was made earlier in the Committee’s deliberations
rather than at the end. This initiative was driven in part by my
exposure, during the Fellowship Programme, to the constructive
input of many non-governmental organizations to the work
of various parts of the multilateral disarmament machinery.
Furthermore, at the outset of my assignment in New York, it
became quite clear that civil society played a critical role in
supporting Member States’ efforts to advance the disarmament
agenda. Working in collaboration with these important actors in
the disarmament arena has been a hallmark of my career.
During the Fellowship Programme, I was keenly
interested in learning how to advance concerted international
action to address the scourge of gun violence, a major foreign
policy priority for Jamaica and its CARICOM partners. As
a First Committee delegate, I was therefore pleased to have
the opportunity to fully utilize the knowledge I acquired
from the Fellowship Programme, especially during Jamaica’s
chairmanship of the sixth Biennial Meeting of States  to
Consider Implementation of the  Programme of Action  to
Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in  Small Arms
and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects in June 2016.
A fulfilling moment for me personally during Jamaica’s
chairmanship of the First Committee was to witness the
2014 Fellows receive their certificates from the Chairman,
Ambassador Rattray. As I watched the proceedings, I was
reminded of my promise and felt humbled by the opportunity to
serve in this area.

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Second promise: Advocacy for a nuclear-weapon-free

world
A defining moment in my career was the study visit to the
Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where I was exposed
first-hand to a story of profound tragedy. My colleagues and I
heard the heart-wrenching and courageous testimony of the
A-bomb survivors (hibakusha), as well as received an important
briefing on the work of Mayors for Peace Conference, including
the revised Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons by
2020. This personal experience broadened our awareness and
deepened our understanding of the hibakusha’s warning that no
one else should ever suffer as they had.
In the remarks that I delivered on behalf of my colleagues
at the welcome reception in Hiroshima, I was very much aware
that, on departing Japan, we would ponder many questions
on how best to utilize what we gained from seeing with our
own eyes the realities of the atomic bombing, as well as
experiencing the memories, voices and prayers of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. I stated that, as representatives from 30 diverse
countries—small and large, developed and developing, non-
nuclear and nuclear—we would have different answers to this
question. However, there was no doubt that we would all leave
with the strong belief that the pursuit of mutual understanding,
international cooperation and commitment to collective action
are the essential ingredients for ensuring international peace and
security.
I therefore asked that we take with us the appeal
of Hiroshima’s then-Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba to the 2004
Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of
the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty): “Please let our
venerable hibakusha go to their final rest comforted in the
knowledge that world leaders are at last determined to take the
steps necessary to welcome future generations into a nuclear-
weapon-free world.”

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This appeal was the second promise I made during the

Fellowship Programme, which also shaped my career in the
field of disarmament. My assignment to the United Nations
seven years later presented me with the opportunity to translate
the hibakusha’s appeal into action. As a First Committee
delegate, I actively represented my country in deliberations
on the important question of nuclear disarmament in the First
Committee, as well as at the United Nations Disarmament
Commission, the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Conference and the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG)
taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations.
In early 2013, mindful of my country’s strong support for
a nuclear-weapon-free world and bearing in mind my promise
to the hibakusha, I became actively involved with the emerging
initiative on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear
weapons. My engagement with this initiative was underpinned
by the advocacy work of the International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), in particular its Latin American and
Caribbean Arm, as well as the visionary leadership of Member
States such as Mexico and Austria.
In fact, Jamaica was one of the first countries to host, in
collaboration with ICAN, a regional round-table discussion on
the question of how to address the catastrophic humanitarian
consequences of nuclear weapons, including by means of a
treaty banning nuclear weapons. This round table, convened in
Montego Bay, Jamaica, in August 2014, served to prepare the
CARICOM region to contribute actively towards advancing the
humanitarian initiative on nuclear weapons.
In May 2016, the second session of the OEWG brought
me to back to Geneva for the first time since my visit there
to commence the Disarmament Fellowship Programme. The
occasion, this time, was to represent my country in the very
crucial deliberations to determine concrete effective legal
measures, legal provisions and norms that would need to be
concluded to attain and maintain a world without nuclear
weapons.

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As a “one-woman” delegation, I participated whole-

heartedly in the deliberations, ensuring that the position of
SIDS was robustly represented and that the voice of women
was heard in these discussions. I did so mindful of my
country’s keen interest in advancing the goal of general and
complete disarmament in the pursuit of international peace,
security and development and the strong political and moral
leadership of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean
States (CELAC), firmly rooted in the Treaty of Tlateloco.
Against the background of a renewed focus on and deeper
understanding of the humanitarian consequences of nuclear
weapons and their associated risks, we were determined to live
up to our responsibility and take forward multilateral nuclear
disarmament. As I said in one of my statements, “we too have
fears—fear for our security, fear for our survival. Indeed, we
fear that the ‘grand bargain’, which enabled the coming into
being of the [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty], which is
not being implemented in both letter and spirit, as well as the
backtracking on commitments freely undertaken, keeps us on
the brink of massive nuclear violence and threatens the very
survival of humanity.”
During those deliberations, I remained keenly conscious
of the commitment I made as a Disarmament Fellow to use
the knowledge and skills with which I had been equipped to
contribute to advancing the multilateral disarmament process.
In my final statement to the OEWG, mindful that my tour of
duty in New York would end shortly, I therefore sought the
Chairman’s approval to deviate somewhat from the script in my
national statement to reflect on and highlight the importance of
disarmament and non-proliferation education, and in particular
the Disarmament Fellowship Programme. I had come full circle.
The robust participation of CELAC member States,
including Jamaica, along with other like-minded States, led to
the decision by the OEWG to recommend the convening, by
the General Assembly, of a conference in 2017, to negotiate a
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towards their total elimination. The Treaty on the Prohibition

of Nuclear Weapons was adopted on 7 July 2017. This was
undoubtedly a major historic milestone in global efforts on
disarmament.
Since leaving New York, I have participated in several
disarmament-related panels, including at the International
Seminar on the Question of Nuclear Weapons to commemorate
the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Treaty of Tlateloco in
Mexico in February 2017 and at the High-level Panel for
the “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Science and
Technology 2017 Conference” in Austria in June 2017. I was
particularly honoured to be a guest speaker at the Summer
School on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in
Mexico in July 2016.

Gender and disarmament

Participation in the Fellowship Programme exposed me
very early on to the important issue of gender and disarmament
and informed my work in this area. In fact, as part of the
United Nations Secretariat’s gender-mainstreaming efforts,
the guidelines for the award of the Disarmament Fellowship
encourage the nomination of female candidates. I believe that
the Fellowship Programme’s emphasis on ensuring female
participation has been and remains a useful tool in addressing
the under-representation of women in delegations and panels, in
a very practical way.
Undoubtedly, training and capacity-building are essential
to building a critical mass of women working in the fields of
disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control. This critical
mass is needed to bring gender diversity both to negotiations
and to the elaboration of relevant disarmament instruments, as
well as to exert influence in prioritizing conflict prevention and
the promotion of a culture of peace. The efforts of the United
Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the tireless work of
civil society groups in promoting gender and disarmament are
commendable.

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A Disarmament Fellow is seen during a 2014 visit to the Infrasound and Seismic Test-
Bed and Training Facility at the headquarters of the Preparatory Commission for the
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna.

For my part, as a First Committee delegate, I was

encouraged by the increasingly active participation of female
delegates. We contributed significantly to driving change in
the disarmament arena, in part by changing the narrative and
demanding a more equitable, peaceful and nuclear-weapon-free
world. I was happy to work alongside many of these women,
including Maritza Chan from Costa Rica, Charlene Roopnarine
from Trinidad and Tobago, Soledad Urruela from Guatemala
and Dell Higgie from New Zealand, as well as Ray Acheson
from Reaching Critical Will and Anna MacDonald from Control
Arms.
My advice to current and prospective female Fellows,
in particular, is to make good use of this opportunity and
exert every effort to use your agency and your voice to create
an alternative view to the State-centric and male-dominated
perspective of security issues in your environment. This will be
the legacy and key contribution of your training.

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Final reflections
The knowledge and skills I acquired as a Disarmament
Fellow were underpinned by a much broader, more
sophisticated and universal vision of world affairs, thanks to
the truly multinational and multicultural learning environment
of the programme. In my year, as 30 participants from different
countries and of different genders, we learned about each other’s
perceptions of security concerns and national approaches to
solving critical problems. The friendships we made and the
cooperative network created remain key ingredients in fostering
an environment in which disarmament truly becomes the art of
the possible. In this regard, I wish to highlight the friendship
developed with Sewar Masa’deh of Jordan, whom I visited in
her country in 2010. On that occasion, I was also able to visit
Egypt, Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic, which provided a
deeper understanding of the security challenges in the Middle
East.
The Fellowship Programme has been successful in its
execution over the past 40 years owing, in no small measure, to
its very capable and hardworking operational team. I therefore
use this opportunity to pay tribute to the Coordinator of the 2005
Programme, Jerzy Zaleski, who is not only a person of great
technical competence but is also deeply committed to the cause
of disarmament and non-proliferation. Indeed, he challenged us
to think and act creatively in searching for new and imaginative
ways of dealing with global challenges.
Finally, I wish to underscore the enduring value of the
United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament and
urge the continued support of United Nations Member States.
In so doing, I must recall the words of then Under-Secretary-
General for Disarmament Affairs, Nobuyasu Abe, that, “though
much of the United Nations disarmament machinery continues
to struggle for consensus on certain difficult issues, it is
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not only working quite well but are also gaining recognition
from Member States for their achievement”.
Disarmament education matters. Forty years on, the
transformative United Nations Programme of Fellowships on
Disarmament is indisputably leading the way. Let’s scale up our
collective global support.

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 The Fellowship of 1980 and my
encounter with the Salle du Conseil
of the Palais des Nations in Geneva
Tibor Tóth
1980 Disarmament Fellow (Hungary)

It was back in 1980 when, as a young diplomat from Hungary,

I was enrolled in the second year of the United Nations
Disarmament Fellowship Programme.

Today, 40 years later, it seems pertinent to reflect on what

I learned then and there. It might be equally relevant to identify
the insights that I acquired much later, but which I still owe,
directly or indirectly, to the Fellowship.
Beyond the in-depth knowledge on disarmament and
practical experience of how the Geneva, New York and Vienna
disarmament machinery functioned, the benefit I am most
grateful for surprisingly boils down to one particular aspect:
enabling me to cross the threshold of the Conference of
Disarmament meeting room in the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
That room, the Salle du Conseil, captivated me permanently,
and—figuratively speaking—I have never exited it.
In the more literal sense, within two years after my
Fellowship, I came back to that room when I was posted in the
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the Conference on Disarmament, in addition to specialized

organizations. Later, I returned to that room as Ambassador in
1990 and in 2002, respectively.
But perhaps more importantly, my 1980 encounter with
that room defined more than anything else how I look upon
not just disarmament—or what I would more broadly call
cooperative security—but also, more generally, security and
socioeconomic developments.
There are three lasting insights that I owe to the Salle du
Conseil and, through it, to the Fellowship Programme.

1. Continuum
Whether we acknowledge it or not, cooperative security
has historically been overwhelmingly driven by competitive
(coercive) security. Disarmament and cooperative security have
simply been “day after” appendixes to cataclysms, near-miss
catastrophes and other competitive security failures. At the
same time, the course of competitive security—past, present
and future—can only be understood in a non-compartmentalized
manner, without being shoehorned into periods defined by
fragmented events in history. The arc of competitive security
is long, its continuum bending back far beyond recent years or
decades.
For our class of Disarmament Fellows, the defining
reference points started with the Limited Test Ban Treaty
of 1963 and continued with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty of 1968, the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972
and, in 1978, the first special session of the General Assembly
devoted to disarmament. None of these were more than one or
two decades behind us. It was only through deep immersion in
disarmament history that we referred back to the first resolution
of the General Assembly in 1946, on the elimination of atomic
and other weapons of mass destruction, or to the 1925 Geneva
Protocol prohibiting the use of chemical and biological
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immersed in its past, my perspectives were inadvertently altered

by the spirit of the place.
At first, its name, “Salle du Conseil”, did not mean much
to me. Then I learned from the archives that the name dated
to the period of the United Nations’ forerunner, the League of
Nations. I realized that it used to be the meeting room for the
League’s Council, the supreme body of a bygone organization—
if not a forgotten one—and the equivalent of today’s United
Nations Security Council. I had the sensation of opening and
peeping beyond a curtain that had been firmly brought down a
few decades earlier.
The Salle du Conseil was decorated in the mid-1930s by
the magnificent murals of the Spanish artist, José Maria Sert.
His other defining masterpieces can be found in the Rockefeller
Center in New York and the Cathedral of Vic in Spain.

A view of the Salle du Conseil during the Conference on Disarmament session on

22 January 2013. (UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré)

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With the Salle du Conseil murals, Sert himself opened

another set of curtains for those sitting in that room. Those
murals carry striking allegories of choices humankind has
been facing for centuries. Humanity’s technological and social
progress—its historical advance in overcoming diseases, slavery
and injustice—are artistically referenced as sources of hope for
making the ultimate choice between war versus its overthrow.
The ceiling provides a symbolic hub for all the surrounding
allegories, with its imposing imagery invoking cooperation
between all nations from the five corners of the world.
The artwork evokes Francisco de Vitoria and other legal
scholars at the School of Salamanca in Spain who, as early as
the 1520s, were advancing the first notions of “just wars” and
the “rights of nations”. The murals serve as a sombre reminder
that voices of the appropriate choice have reverberated for
centuries but been systematically ignored.
It was overwhelming sitting in that room five decades
after Sert and half a millennium after Francisco de Vitoria,
surrounded by all those allegories of hope that humanity would
make the right choice, despite knowing that the wrong option
had been chosen again and again all along that continuum. It
was chosen in the 1930s by those who opted for the folly of
war and aggression, abandoning the Council and the aspirations
of the League of Nations. It also was chosen in the 1900s and
1910s, when unbridled security competition at the expense of
cooperation spiraled out of control, leading to the war that later
had to be referenced as the “war to end all wars” because of its
unjustifiable waste of human lives and material wealth. But it
did not end them. To the contrary, it morphed into the “thirty-
years-war of the twentieth century”, by the phrase of Winston
Churchill and Charles de Gaulle. And one could follow that
dark continuum of competitive security backward another 500
years, and far beyond.
In the summer of 1980, while I spent long sessions
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allegories evoking centuries of conflicting choices, I was

wondering whether the continuum of unchecked competition
would again run out of control one day in the future. Things
looked virtually timeless to me since, by that moment, I had
come across photos of diplomats of late 1930s surrounded by
the Salle du Conseil’s familiar backdrop of murals, furniture and
arrangements in the flagship space of cooperative security of
that time. “This time” and “that time” looked indistinguishable.
Remember that we were in the midst of the SS-20 and
Pershing II missile controversy back then. Even so, I could
not predict what the coming years held for us—and they held a
lot. The year 1983 alone witnessed the initiation of the United
States Strategic Defense Initiative, the shoot-down of Korean
Air Lines 007 in Soviet airspace, a near-fatal false alarm of the
Soviet missile early warning system and the suspension of talks
on what would become the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
Treaty. Then, in November 1983, when the Able Archer exercise
simulated the highest United States readiness level, DEFCON
1, the Soviet leadership misinterpreted it—with all the potential
devastating consequences—as the United States nuclear assets
actually being alerted to that level. Even in the worst days of the
Cuban missile crisis, “only” DEFCON 2 had been put in place.
For politicians on both sides, that event was the scariest near-
miss of a nuclear conflict since 1962.

2. Cycles: booms and busts of competitive security

Able Archer, as the closest of “close calls” that threatened
our collective suicide in the early 1980s, finally led to the
age-old “day after” ritual of soul-searching by political leaders
on both sides. It had burst an overblown competitive security
bubble with tangible prospects of global mayhem, frightening
leaders sufficiently that they would turn towards cooperative
security from the mid-1980s onwards.
And turn they did. That crash ushered us into a period
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unimaginable not just by 1980s’ standards, but by any reference

point in nuclear power discussions, were suddenly not off the
table. It started in 1985 in Geneva, where Ronald Reagan and
Mikhail Gorbachev jointly declared that “a nuclear war cannot
be won and must never be fought”. The year after, in Reykjavik,
the two leaders nearly agreed on the total elimination of
strategic offensive arms. In the next 10 years, around two dozen
cooperative security arrangements were put in place—bilateral
and multilateral, disarmament, arms control, non-proliferation
and confidence-building—more than in the previous 30 years
combined. Plus, the cold war was brought to a peaceful end—a
geopolitical and socioeconomic transformation of a magnitude
that historically happened only in the wake of major wars.
For me the change of heart was even more palpable since,
between 1982 and 1986, we in the Conference on Disarmament
were engaged in daily, seemingly fruitless negotiations on the
prohibition of chemical weapons. And then suddenly, the doors
of cooperative security flung open. The next 10 years gave me
a once-in-a-lifetime chance to add my own personal imprint to
some of the cooperative security measures put in place:
• Initiating that national sub-ceilings were added to coalition
ceilings in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in
Europe
• Initiating the Treaty on Open Skies negotiations as a
Canada-Hungary joint initiative, co-hosting them in
Budapest with Hungary later assuming the role of the
co-depositary of the treaty
• Putting in place enhanced confidence-building measures
with Romania and Slovakia going beyond the Stockholm
and Vienna agreements
• As a chief negotiator, putting in place the Chemical
Weapons Convention’s provisions on the Executive
Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons and enabling its entry into force
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• Assisting the launch of the Preparatory Commission of

the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
and serving from 1996 to 2004 as the chair responsible for
budgetary, programmatic and regulatory issues
• Initiating a unilateral legal prohibition of landmines by
Hungary, the second of its kind in the world
• Chairing, between 1991 and 2003, diplomatic conferences
on the Biological Weapons Convention and the
negotiations on its implementation protocol.
During what I perceived through my professional
experience as a golden decade of cooperative security, I was
mystified in 1998 and 1999 to see the blows delivered to the
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty by a series of nuclear-
weapon tests in South Asia and by the fiasco in a key capital
trying to ratify the Treaty. And two years later, in 2001, I could

At the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in

The Hague, Netherlands, in August 2019, Disarmament Fellows pose with equipment
used during on-site inspections.

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not cogently account for the rejection of the draft Biological

Weapons Convention implementation protocol.
Based on the trend I had witnessed since the mid-1980s,
I projected in the late 1990s and early 2000s that there would
be a swift return from those deviations to the business-as-usual
trend: a continued bear market for competitive security with
a steady flow of cooperative security regulations to further
solidify regional and global stability. Naturally, once I was
elected Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission
of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
in 2004, I was even more interested in figuring out when the
“normal” trend to which I had become accustomed would
resume.
And it did not resume until 2009. Only then, with the
Barack Obama administration, did I think we were moving
back towards normal. Yes, we were, in terms of aspirations
and with some key regulatory elements like the Treaty on
Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic
Offensive Arms (New START Treaty) being put in place. But
notwithstanding all the expectations and all the efforts of the
Obama administration, as an overall trend, competitive security
continued its upward march.
In 2009, coinciding with the Great Recession, Carmen
Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff published a defining book called
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. It
describes how succeeding generations have for centuries been
creating—through recurring cycles—financial bubbles again
and again with disastrous consequences, all while ignoring
previous lessons learned. I thought: what if I applied the idea of
boom and bust cycles to describe the continuum of competitive
security? And I did. In a paper,1 I conceptualized security

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Tibor Tóth, “Conflict, cooperation, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-
Test Ban Treaty: financial markets as a metaphor for cycles in global
security”, The Nonproliferation Review, volume 23, 2016, issue 3-4:
Twenty years of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

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through market trends, and—in the absence of proprietary

security terminology—I borrowed the terminology of market
trends as well.
For the first time in my professional career, I
connected the dots between cooperative security
arrangements of the last half a century and realized I
should group them, producing one cluster from 1963
to the mid-1970s and another from the mid-1980s to
the mid-1990s. Next, I tried to figure out why those
measures and clusters emerged when they did. The
clue came from the Cuban Missile Crisis and from the
“never again under our watch” sentiment that John F.
Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev shared literally the
day after the most fateful moments of the October 1962
standoff. It was more complicated to find the trigger
for the second cluster until I came across literature
describing the impact that the Able Archer incident had
on the American and the Soviet sides, and especially on
President Reagan. Clearly, it was another “it should not
and will not happen again” departure point.
At that point, I understood that a disarmament-centric
approach would not enable me to conceptualize the security
cycles. Looking instead through the competitive security prism,
I saw how overinvestment in competitive security led again
and again to the equivalents of a financial crash: to major wars
or—fortunately, in the last half a century—“just” to near-miss
nuclear catastrophes.
But once I identified the cycles as being driven by
competitive security and by unregulated overinvestment in
competitive security, I could clearly see the role of cooperative
security. The same belated, bad-conscience soul-searching
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every other financial-economic crash—is applicable to security

crashes as well.
Decision-makers who are responsible for letting
developments run out of their control pledge, after a crash,
that “it will not happen again, not under our watch”. Suddenly,
they embrace all the counter-cyclical regulatory measures that
had been ridiculed and dismissed earlier. But as soon as their
codification and implementation start, they are already being
diluted and pushed back, and the arguments for the unregulated
market forces of competition start to prevail again. This is how
cooperative security measures are born and this is how they die.
Yes, cooperative security measures do die. The
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty died. As it stands
now, the New START Treaty will die out of neglect. The Treaty
on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe died. The Treaty
on Open Skies died. The Biological Weapons Convention
implementation protocol was dead on delivery. The Chemical
Weapons Convention is bleeding from 100 cuts. The knives are
out for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. All these
cooperative security arrangements died because overinvestment
in competitive security killed them. It feels painful and it looks
surreal.
It is painful as it would be for architects watching their
flagship buildings, providing shelter to people and nations,
being methodically blown up one by one. The structures
embody the legacy that we and all other architects and builders
intended to leave behind for the next generations, so we could
look into their eyes and say, “We started without much at our
disposal, but we created a shelter in case you need one.” But
future generations now will have to start all over again, since
we are leaving behind much less for them.
It is surreal because, in essence, the competitive security
guardians are throwing away the few fire extinguishers they still
have at their disposal while the fire is threatening to overwhelm
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By now I understand that the choice of “war versus

its overthrow” posed by Sert in the Salle du Conseil is not a
once-and-for-all solution. Rather, the choice is coming back to
haunt and daunt people and nations in cycles that recur every
two or three generations, as in the case of his other allegories:
overcoming diseases, slavery and injustice, as well as
technological and social progress. And always, in the case that
belated choice is correct, it rights the wrong only temporarily,
until the cycle starts again.

3. “This Time is Different”?

A financial crash can be tragic. It takes half a decade for the
market to recover and much longer for ordinary people, if they
recuperate at all. But do political, military, scientific, legislative,
media and other decision-makers and influencers really believe
they can defy the gravity of out-of-control competitive security?
Do they think the same forces of competitive security that have
spiraled out control each and every two to three generations will
behave differently for them, just because their decision-makers
declare that “this time is different”?
From today’s perspective, I still wonder whether the
diplomats of the late 1930s, sitting in the same Salle du Conseil
where today’s diplomats are idle, believed then and there that
“this time is different” from the early 1910s. But what really
bothers me is another question: what was the thinking of those
who were not in that room anymore, or who were on their
way out? Why did those countries that bet on coercion over
cooperation, betraying what the League of Nations embodied,
not comprehend in 1933, 1937 or 1939 where they were
dragging their nations and people? Why did it take until the
“day after” for them to see the writing on the wall—or on the
murals of the Salle du Conseil—about the appropriate choice
between coercion and cooperation?
The three insights I described here should not dictate
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truth should not be looked upon as more deterministic than

acknowledging that summer is followed by autumn and autumn
by winter. With timely arrangements and precautions, we can
weather even the harshest conditions of the coldest season. But
for that, we have to pledge collective awareness, dedication and
perseverance.
As for the “Continuum”, we have to pledge to continue
bending the arc of security towards a more balanced mix
between cooperative and competitive security, where longer
and longer periods of stability keep at bay the dark, coercive
security instincts of people and nations.
As for the “Cycles”, we have to pledge that, even as
competitive security forces throw away regulatory checks and
balances as part of the present cycle, we will not give up or
surrender. After all the setbacks, we will get up again and start
all over, putting in place counter-cyclical regulations to create
the trust sufficit that will enable us to be resilient and avoid the
worst if and when the next crash comes.
As for “This Time is Different”, we—not just decision-
makers, but all of us—have to understand that betting on
unbridled competition at the expense of cooperation has
repeatedly led to disastrous consequences and will not lead to a
different outcome here, now or for us. This time is different only
if we make it different.

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Appendix

United Nations Disarmament Fellows listed by year

1979 (19 Fellows) 1980 (20 Fellows)

Mr. Radoslav DEYANOV (Bulgaria) Mr. Erick Rivera CLAUSSEN (Bolivia)
Mr. Fombo Peter TEBA (Cameroon) Mr. THAUNG HTUN (Burma)
Mr. Pedro Nunez MOSQUERA (Cuba) Mr. Humberto Rivero ROSARIO (Cuba)
Mr. Mohamed Naqui EL GHATRIFI (Egypt) Mr. Vladimir KUSTEK (Czechoslovakia)
Mr. Fesseha YOHANNES (Ethiopia) Mr. Hussein Saleh FADHLI (Democratic Republic of
Mr. Mercourios CARAFOTIAS (Greece) Yemen)
Mr. Shyam SARAN (India) Ms. Wafaa Ashraf Moharram BASSIM (Egypt)
Mr. Indra Malela DAMANIK (Indonesia) Mr. Tibor TÓTH (Hungary)
Mr. David DANIELI (Israel) Mr. MacPetrie HANJAHANJA (Malawi)
Ms. Jennifer Elaine SHARPE (Jamaica) Mr. Lakhouit ABDELHAMID (Morocco)
Mr. George MUNIU (Kenya) Mr. Pushkar Man Singh RAJBHANDARI (Nepal)
Mr. Isaac Ivbodaghe AYEWAH (Nigeria) Mr. Thomas AGUIJI-IRONSI (Nigeria)
Mr. Jerzy ZALESKI (Poland) Mr. Mohammed Ali Thani AL-KHASSIBY (Oman)
Mr. Nicolae DINU-IONITA (Romania) Mr. Abdul Moiz BOKHARI (Pakistan)
Mr. Sami GLAIEL (Syrian Arab Republic) Mr. Vicente Rojas ESCALANTE (Peru)
Mr. Cem BASMAN (Turkey) Mr. Rex ROBLES (Philippines)
Mr. Pham NGAC (Viet Nam) Ms. Dhiradhamrong SRISARAN (Thailand)
Ms. Guillermina DA SILVA SERPA (Venezuela) Mr. Ecvet TEZCAN (Turkey)
Mr. Ivan MRKIC (Yugoslavia) Mr. Musinga T. BANDORA (United Republic of
Tanzania)
Mr. Slobodan TASOVSKI (Yugoslavia)
Mr. Luaba BULA (Zaire)

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1981 (20 Fellows) 1982 (20 Fellows)

Mr. Jorge Alejandro MASTROPIETRO (Argentina) Mr. Abd-El-Naceur BELAID (Algeria)
Mr. Ahmed AKHTARUZZAMAN (Bangladesh) Mr. Vitia Dimitrov BOZHKOV (Bulgaria)
Mr. Bu XIAO-DI (China) Mr. Chang-he LI (China)
Ms. Ana Catalina DEL LLANO RESTREPO (Colombia) Mrs. Fatma Hussein AWAD-ALLAH (Egypt)
Mr. Alphonse NKOUKA (Congo) Mr. Michael GERDTS (Federal Republic of Germany)
Ms. Susana GUERRA (Ecuador) Mr. Kevin DOWLING (Ireland)
Mr. Mesfin MEKONNEN (Ethiopia) Ms. Hussain RAJMAH (Malaysia)
Mr. Andreas BRIE (German Democratic Republic) Mr. Biodun OWOSENI (Nigeria)
Mr. Henry HANSON-HALL (Ghana) Mr. Angel E. RIERA (Panama)
Mr. Athanassios DENDOULIS (Greece) Mr. Cesar Castillom RAMIREZ (Peru)
Mr. Jagdish Chandra SHARMA (India) Mr. Julio C. DERY (Philippines)
Mr. Awang BAHRIN (Indonesia) Mr. Brendon BROWNE (Saint Vincent and the
Mr. Esther-Efrat SMILG (Israel) Grenadines)
Mr. François A.R. MCGILCHRIST (Jamaica) Mr. Francis Obai KABIA (Sierra Leone)
Mr. John M. KIBOI (Kenya) Mr. H.M.G.S. PALIHAKKARA (Sri Lanka)
Mr. Gebran SOUFAN (Lebanon) Mr. Ercan OZER (Turkey)
Mr. Gibreel Souleiman MANSOURY (Libyan Arab Mr. Igor M. KHVOROSTIANY (Ukrainian Soviet
Jamahiriya) Socialist Republic)
Mr. Tache PANAIT (Romania) Mr. Jesus Alberto Zarraga REYES (Venezuela)
Mr. Mohi Eldin Ibrahim ABDELRAHMAN (Sudan) Mr. Dinh Truc PHAN (Viet Nam)
Mr. Mohammad Said BOUNNI (Syrian Arab Republic) Ms. Mira STJEPANOVIC (Yugoslavia)
Mr. Humphrey Bwalya KUNDA (Zambia)

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1983 (25 Fellows) 1984 (25 Fellows)

Mr. Gabriel Eduardo PARINI (Argentina) Mr. Hassane RABEHI (Algeria)
Ms. Jill Bernadine COURTNEY (Australia) Mr. Rafiqul BARI (Bangladesh)
Mr. Mauricio ETIENNE-SOLARES (Bolivia) Mr. Marc DEBUNNE (Belgium)
Mr. Aziz-Philippe GOUNDJI (Central African Republic) Mr. George DIMITROV (Bulgaria)
Mr. Francisco Fernandez PEÑA (Cuba) Mr. Nkwelle EKANEY (Cameroon)
Mr. Negash KEBRET (Ethiopia) Mr. Pedro OYARCE (Chile)
Ms. Christel NYMAN (Finland) Mr. Yen ZHANG (China)
Mr. Lutz MULLER (German Democratic Republic) Mr. Hussein Saeed AL-ALFI (Democratic Republic
Mr. Zed Kofi GRANT-ESSILFIE (Ghana) of Yemen)
Mr. THEIN TUN (Burma) Ms. Miriam S. MANTILLA-LARREA (Ecuador)
Mr. Jayant PRASAD (India) Mr. Abderahman Salah-El-Din ABDERAHMAN
(Egypt)
Mr. Iwan WIRANATAATMADJA (Indonesia)
Mr. Jurgen MOPERT (German Democratic Republic)
Mr. Usana B. MAHMOUD (Iraq)
Ms. Bhaswati MUKHERJEE (India)
Mr. Kouadio ADJOUMANI (Côte d’Ivoire)
Mr. Farhad Morid Moshtagh SEFAT (Islamic Republic
Mr. Ayman AAMIRY (Jordan)
of Iran)
Ms. Juliette Farah RAZAFIARISOA (Madagascar)
Mr. Edwin F. SELE (Liberia)
Ms. Monica ORTIZ-TABOADA (Mexico)
Ms. Rosalva Andrea RUIZ-PANIAGUA (Mexico)
Mr. Miroslaw B. MIERNIK (Poland)
Mr. Mostapha JEBARI (Morocco)
Mr. Julian SEVILLA-SUAREZ (Spain)
Mr. Nigel Donald FYFE (New Zealand)
Mr. Najeib Elkheir ABDELWAHAB (Sudan)
Mr. Heli PELAEZ (Peru)
Mr. Mohammad Najdat SHAHEED (Syrian Arab
Mr. Mamadou Moustapha DRAME (Senegal)
Republic)
Mr. Prasad KARIYAWASAM (Sri Lanka)
Mr. Ridha BOUABID (Tunisia)
Ms. Rangsiya DEVAKUL (Thailand)
Mr. Idule AMOKO (Uganda)
Mr. Bernard ODOCH-JATO (Uganda)
Mr. Sultan Ali AZAZY (Yemen Arab Republic)
Mr. Felix K. MWIJARUBI (United Republic of
Mr. Lazarus KAPAMBWE (Zambia)
Tanzania)
Mr. Herbert L. CALHOUN (United States of America)
Mr. Vladimir Gueorguievich BARANOVSKY (Union of
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1985 (23 Fellows) 1986 (20 Fellows)

Mr. Ebrahim Mohammad NENGRAHARY Mr. Mohamed TEFIANI (Algeria)
(Afghanistan) Mr. Rafael Mariano GROSSI (Argentina)
Mr. Ruben Pablo GUEVARA (Argentina) Mr. Zacharie Richard AKPLOGAN (Benin)
Mr. Wolfgang SCHNEIDER (Austria) Mr. Tarcisio Lima Ferreira Fernandes COSTA (Brazil)
Mr. Hubert DEGUENON (Benin) Mr. Weidong ZHANG (China)
Ms. Rosemarie Crespo VAZQUEZ (Bolivia) Mr. Eduardo Martinez BORBONET (Cuba)
Mr. YE MYINT (Burma) Ms. Iman Moustafa Abdou AHMED (Egypt)
Mr. Petr KUBES (Czechoslovakia) Ms. Agnès MARCAILLOU (France)
Mr. A. Carsten DAMSGAARD (Denmark) Mr. Kojo YEBOAH-ASUAMAH (Ghana)
Ms. Francia Margarita SENCION-RAMIREZ (Dominican Mr. Lajos BOZI (Hungary)
Republic)
Mr. Fouad Khalil ATIEH (Jordan)
Mr. Janos JELEN (Hungary)
Mr. Reuben Ambeyi LIGABO (Kenya)
Mr. Arizal EFFENDI (Indonesia)
Mr. Linthong PHETSAVAN (Lao People’s Democratic
Mr. Daniel Koikai MEPUKORI (Kenya) Republic)
Mr. Claude Sama TOUNKARA (Mali) Ms. Deborah JACKSON (New Zealand)
Mr. Mohammed Yeslem MOKTAR (Mauritania) Mrs. Seema NAQVI (Pakistan)
Ms. Andrea Garcia GUERRA (Mexico) Mr. Krzysztof JAKUBOWSKI (Poland)
Mr. José Maria MORAIS (Mozambique) Mr. Jean-Marie Vianney GATERA (Rwanda)
Mr. Hira THAPA (Nepal) Ms. Kzhenuka Dhireni DE SILVA (Sri Lanka)
Mr. Akatu A. ELLA (Nigeria) Mr. Abou YACOUBOU (Togo)
Mr. Abdi Artan ADAN (Somalia) Mrs. Liberata N. R. MULAMULA (United Republic of
Mr. Abdelmahmoud A. MOHAMED (Sudan) Tanzania)
Mr. Henry Picho OKELLO (Uganda)
Mr. Jonathan NOAKES (United Kingdom)
Mr. Gift PUNUNGWE (Zimbabwe)

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1987 (20 Fellows) 1988 (25 Fellows)

Ms. Corinne D. TOMKINSON (Australia) Mr. Martin Gomez BUSTILLO (Argentina)
Mr. Jorge Carrion VALLEJOS (Bolivia) Mr. Hermann LOIDOLT (Austria)
Mr. Gérard SABUSHIMIKE (Burundi) Ms. Marcia Donner ABREU (Brazil)
Mrs. Cornelia MANN (German Democratic Republic) Mr. Krassimir I. STANKOV (Bulgaria)
Mr. Virendra GUPTA (India) Mr. THANT KYAW (Burma)
Mr. Behrooz MORADI (Islamic Republic of Iran) Mr. Shan HUA (China)
Mr. Oumar DAOU (Mali) Mr. Stefan FULE (Czechoslovakia)
Mr. Henk J. VOSKAMP (Netherlands) Mr. Khaled W. SARWAT (Egypt)
Ms. Maria 0. LAOSE (Nigeria) Mr. Stefan SCHNEIDER (Federal Republic of
Mr. Dario E. CHIRU (Panama) Germany)
Mr. Virgilio A. REYES (Philippines) Mr. Mohamed M. Ould EL GHAOUTH (Mauritania)
Mr. Adil A. K. SHARFI (Sudan) Mr. James J. HENNESSY (Ireland)
Mr. Komlan AGBODJI (Togo) Mrs. Rosemary W. NDEGWA (Kenya)
Mr. Ali Ben MALEK (Tunisia) Mr. Rida M. EL FASSI (Morocco)
Mr. Alexander G. TSVETKOV (Ukrainian Soviet Mr. Simoes K. SITHOLA (Mozambique)
Socialist Republic) Mr. Yug Nath Sharma PAUDEL (Nepal)
Mr. Wilmer A. Mendez GRATEROL (Venezuela) Mr. Ali ILLIASSOU (Niger)
Mr. Le Luong MINH (Viet Nam) Mr. M. A. Mateen KHAN (Pakistan)
Mr. Ognjen HUMO (Yugoslavia) Mr. Manuel E. Loyola SOTIL (Peru)
Mr. Muyambo SIPANGULE (Zambia) Mr. Witold KARP (Poland)
Mr. Thompson NHENGU (Zimbabwe) Mr. Cesar COLY (Senegal)
Ms. Pamela JAYASEKERA (Sri Lanka)
Ms. Dusadee SANGUANSOOK (Thailand)
Mr. Edward Kamurasi KAPIRIISA (Uganda)
Mr. Carlos PESTANA (Venezuela)
Mr. Ali Al GHAFFARI (Democratic Republic of
Yemen)

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1989 (24 Fellows) 1990 (26 Fellows)

Mr. Abdelfetah DAGHMOUM (Algeria) Mr. Artur KUKO (Albania)
Ms. Virginia E. DE LA QUINTANA RUIZ (Bolivia) Mr. Ernesto Mario PFIRTER (Argentina)
Mr. Vladimir KOROLEV (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Mr. Amir Hussain SIKDER (Bangladesh)
Republic) Mr. Anguel ANASTASSOV (Bulgaria)
Mr. Sergio H. Valenzuela LEON (Chile) Mr. Nainla NGARRY-MBAILAO (Chad)
Mr. Vincent BLA (Côte d’Ivoire) Mr. Endale TESSEMA (Ethiopia)
Mrs. Maria E. FIFFE CABREJA (Cuba) Mr. Martin KREMER (Federal Republic of Germany)
Mr. Rainer SALM (German Democratic Republic) Mr. Luciano BOZZO (Italy)
Mr. Leslie K. CHRISTIAN (Ghana) Mr. Hussein AL-RIFAI (Jordan)
Mr. Mohamed L. TOURE (Guinea) Mr. Tseliso KOLANE (Lesotho)
Mr. Marton KRASZNAI (Hungary) Mr. Mohamed Ben KADDOUR (Morocco)
Mr. Anil WADHWA (India) Ms. Maria del R. Peña JARAMILLO (Mexico)
Mr. Imron COTAN (Indonesia) Mr. WYNN THEIN (Myanmar)
Mr. Darvish RANJBAR (Islamic Republic of Iran) Mr. Dhananjay JHA (Nepal)
Ms. Liora HERZL (Israel) Mr. Julio Acampo MASCARO (Peru)
Mrs. Gloria C. VINTON (Liberia) Mr. Leslie J. BAJA (Philippines)
Mr. Ahmad Jazri M. JOHAR (Malaysia) Mr. Hassan M. CONTEH (Sierra Leone)
Mr. Dambyn GANKHUYAG (Mongolia) Mr. Manjusri Jayantha PALIPANE (Sri Lanka)
Mr. John S. ADANK (New Zealand) Ms. Annika JOHANSSON (Sweden)
Mr. Alphonsus G. ALANG (Nigeria) Mrs. Radhia Naima MSUYA (United Republic of
Mr. Mohamed AL-HASSAN (Oman) Tanzania)
Mr. Domingos A. FERREIRA (Sao Tome and Principe) Mr. Pavel MIKHAILOV (Union of Soviet Socialist
Mr. Ghassan HAIDER (Syrian Arab Republic) Republics)
Mr. Komi M. AFETO (Togo) Mr. Victor Manzanares VELOZ (Venezuela)
Mr. Peter HOBWANI (Zimbabwe) Mr. Hoai Trung LE (Viet Nam)
Ms. Dagana FILIPOVIC (Yugoslavia)
Associate Disarmament Fellows:
Mr. Li Yong HO (Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea)
Mr. Myong Jin KIM (Republic of Korea)

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1991 (25 Fellows) 1992 (29 Fellows)

Mr. Joao Baptista DA COSTA (Angola) Mr. Alejandro G. VERDIER (Argentina)
Mr. Awangku Alihashim YUSSOF (Brunei Darussalam) Mr. R. Kevin MAGEE (Australia)
Mr. Martin Xbeng AGBOR (Cameroon) Mr. Christian GLATZL (Austria)
Mr. Zukang SHA (People’s Republic of China) Mr. Georges A. WHANNOU (Benin)
Ms. Ana Matilde Rivera FIGUEROA (Costa Rica) Mr. Anatole Ayissi NGAH (Cameroon)
Mr. Zdenek STIBOR (Czech and Slovak Federal Mr. Camilo SANHUEZA (Chile)
Republic) Mr. So Chang SIK (Democratic People’s Republic of
Ms. Diana Minerva CEPEDA NUNEZ (Dominican Korea)
Republic) Mr. José M. Borja LOPEZ (Ecuador)
Mr. Aly O. SIRRY (Egypt) Mrs. Laila Ahmed BAHAELDIN (Egypt)
Mr. Loukas KARATSOLIS (Greece) Mr. Rajendra Kumar TYAGI (India)
Mr. Karamo KOITA (Guinea) Mr. Nassereddin HEIDARY (Islamic Republic of Iran)
Mr. Pedro FERNANDES (Guinea-Bissau) Mr. Bolat K. NURGALIEV (Kazakhstan)
Mr. Hamid Ali RAO (India) Mr. Anthony ANDANJE (Kenya)
Mr. Djumantoro PURBO (Indonesia) Ms. Begoña Sabate GOMEZ (Mexico)
Mr. Hamid BAIDI-NEJAD (Islamic Republic of Iran) Mr. Ayushiin BAT-ERDENE (Mongolia)
Ms. Salome F. ATANDI (Kenya) Mr. Jackson SHIKONGO (Namibia)
Mr. Raymond VASSALLO (Malta) Mrs. Myrna F. Peña HERNANDEZ (Nicaragua)
Mr. Patrice E. CURE (Mauritius) Mr. Yaqoob S. AL-ABRI (Oman)
Mr. Lamjavyn JARGALSAIHAN (Mongolia) Mr. Mushtaq A. SHAH (Pakistan)
Mr. Muntari A. KAITA (Nigeria) Mr. Krzysztof PATUREJ (Poland)
Mr. Cristian ISTRATE (Romania) Mr. Younsoo LEE (Republic of Korea)
Mr. Tanasak SUDTITES (Thailand) Mr. Gheorghe PREDESCU (Romania)
Mr. Atilla GUNAY (Turkey) Mr. Victor L. VASSILIEV (Russian Federation)
Mr. Mikhail OSNATCH (Ukraine) Mr. Esala Ruwan WEERAKOON (Sri Lanka)
Mr. Yumi SHAKU (Zaire) Mr. Henrik CEDERIN (Sweden)
Mr. Davies SAMPA (Zambia) Mrs. Shamim NYANDUGA (United Republic of
Tanzania)
Ms. Monia ALOUI (Tunisia)
Mr. John R. NUWAMANYA (Uganda)
Mr. Munyaradzi MOTSI (Zimbabwe)

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1993 (27 Fellows) 1994 (29 Fellows)

Mr. Ali ALAOUI (Algeria) Mr. Federico VILLEGAS BELTRAN (Argentina)
Mr. Achilles ZALUAR (Brazil) Ms. Ellen HANSEN (Australia)
Mr. Dimitar D. DIMITROV (Bulgaria) Mr. Yeshey DORJI (Bhutan)
Mr. Macaire KABORE (Burkina Faso) Mr. Louis-Philippe SYLVESTRE (Canada)
Mr. Manuel Couto de MATOS (Cape Verde) Mr. Genxin LI (China)
Mr. Jieyi LIU (China) Mr. Ogbai HABTEMICAEL (Eritrea)
Mr. Juan Carlos GONZALEZ-VERGARA (Colombia) Mr. Michael Yirdaw LEBARGACHEW (Ethiopia)
Ms. Ana Maria CHONGO-TORREBLANCO (Cuba) Mr. Parfait S. ONANGA-ANYANGA (Gabon)
Mr. Moataz ZAHRAN (Egypt) Ms. Daisy L. I. CARROL (Gambia)
Mr. Aivo ORAV (Estonia) Ms. Marcia THOMAS (Jamaica)
Mr. Marcus A. EICHHORN (Germany) Mr. Hani CHAAR (Lebanon)
Mr. Norber KONKOLY (Hungary) Mr. Mohamed S. OULD MOHAMED LEMINE
Mr. Dian WIRENGJURIT (Indonesia) (Mauritania)
Mr. Rajab M. SUKAYRI (Jordan) Mr. Ramón T. ROMERO REYES (Mexico)
Ms. Jean KIMANI (Kenya) Mr. Lotfi BOUCHAARA (Morocco)
Mr. Karmain MISRAN (Malaysia) Mr. Aboubacar MOHAMADOU (Niger)
Mr. KYAW SWA (Myanmar) Mr. Tariq JAVED (Pakistan)
Mr. George KAXUXWENA (Namibia) Mr. Jamil RABAH (Palestine Liberation
Organization)
Mr. Gyan ACHARYA (Nepal)
Ms. Martha S. ASHWELL-FERNANDEZ (Paraguay)
Mr. Roger BALL (New Zealand)
Mr. Jakub SKIBA (Poland)
Mr. Jeremiah HASSAN (Nigeria)
Mr. Paolo C. FERREIRA CHAVES (Portugal)
Mr. A. E. BELIZ-GENETEAU (Panama)
Mr. Abou THIAM (Senegal)
Mr. Alexander G. SMIRNOV (Russian Federation)
Mr. Pavol TOKAR (Slovakia)
Mr. Vojko KUZMA (Slovenia)
Ms. Stasa KOBI (Slovenia)
Ms. Lisa EVANSON (United States of America)
Mr. Kwang-Chul LEW (Republic of Korea)
Ms. Mary CHIPALA (Zambia)
Mr. Ahmed A. JAWAD (Sri Lanka)
Mr. Joel MUZUWA (Zimbabwe)
Mr. Maher BADDOUR (Syrian Arab Republic)
Mr. Ismail ARAMAZ (Turkey)
Mr. Geoffrey NKURLU (United Republic of Tanzania)
Mr. Pedro VAZ RAMELA (Uruguay)

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1995 (30 Fellows) 1996 (19 Fellows)

Mr. Maurido Bernardo BORGES (Angola) Ms. Gabriela MARTINIC (Argentina)
Mr. Conrod HUNTE (Antigua and Barbuda) Ms. Andrea FAULKNER (Australia)
Mr. Artem AZNAURIAN (Armenia) Ms. Natasha TURNQUEST (Bahamas)
Mr. Valery KALESNIK (Belarus) Ms. Xiaolin WANG (China)
Mr. Raphael Codjo MENSAH (Benin) Mr. Waktasu NEGERI (Ethiopia)
Mr. Ricardo AYROSA (Brazil) Ms. Hannah NY ARKO (Ghana)
Mr. Zoran MILANOVIC (Croatia) Mr. Ashok DAS (India)
Mr. Rodolfo BENITEZ (Cuba) Mr. Alon SNIR (Israel)
Mr. Hossam Eldeen M. ALY (Egypt) Ms. Catherine ONYONI (Kenya)
Mr. Zurab BERIDZE (Georgia) Mr. Olabode ADEKEYE (Nigeria)
Ms. Alexandra KANGELARIS (Greece) Mr. Humaid AL-MA’ANI (Oman)
Mr. Bouram CIRE (Guinea) Mr. Shuja ALAM (Pakistan)
Mr. Yuri O. THAMRIN (Indonesia) Mr. Won Woo LEE (Republic of Korea)
Mr. Shahrokh SHAKERIAN (Islamic Republic of Iran) Mr. Ionut SUSEANU (Romania)
Mr. Ahmad AL-HAJAYA (Jordan) Mr. Andriy KUZMENKO (Ukraine)
Mr. Nurbek JEENBAEV (Kyrgyzstan) Ms. Clare EVANS (United Kingdom of Great Britain
Mr. Toms BAUMANIS (Latvia) and Northern Ireland)
Mr. Gonchigiin GONGOR (Mongolia) Mr. John BRAVACO (United States of America)
Mr. Ngakare KEEJA (Namibia) Mr. William SANTANA (Venezuela)
Mr. Matthijs SCHROEDER (Netherlands) Ms. Lucy MUNGOMA (Zambia)
Ms. Romy TINCOPA (Peru)
Mr. Vladimir CHIRINCIUC (Republic of Moldova)
Mr. Dimitri V. SPIRIN (Russian Federation)
Mr. John Bobor LAGGAH (Sierra Leone)
Ms. Morakot SRISWASDI (Thailand)
Mr. Sébadé TOBA (Togo)
Ms. Radhia ACHOURI (Tunisia)
Mr. Yuriy KLYMENKO (Ukraine)
Mr. Awad ALNEYADI (United Arab Emirates)
Mr. William MALZAHN (United States of America)

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1997 (24 Fellows) 1998 (24 Fellows)

Mr. Djamel SAÏDANI (Algeria) Ms. Cinthia V. ECHAVARRIA (Argentina)
Ms. Nahida SOBHAN (Bangladesh) Ms. Aïssèta GOMGNIBOU BOLY (Burkina Faso)
Mr. René ORTEGA MEZA (Chile) Mr. Krešimir BOŠNJAK (Croatia)
Mr. LONG Zhou (China) Mr. Haitham Mahmoud GHOBASHY (Egypt)
Mr. Daniel AVILA (Colombia) Mr. William Osbaldo HERNANDEZ (El Salvador)
Ms. Dania Margarita SANTANA TRUEBA (Cuba) Mr. Pa Modou ANN (Gambia)
Mr. Song Il JONG (Democratic People’s Republic of Mr. Muhammad ADAM (Ghana)
Korea) Mr. Mohammad Hassan DARYAEI (Islamic Republic
Mr. Stefan KORDASCH (Germany) of Iran)
Mr. László DEÁK (Hungary) Ms. Anne TINGLIN (Jamaica)
Mr. Suryana SASTRADIREDJA (Indonesia) Mr. Khaled Suleyman AL-HAMED (Jordan)
Ms. Claudia COLLA (Italy) Mr. Ki-Jun YOU (Republic of Korea)
Ms. Leila BAISHINA (Kazakhstan) Mr. Dinala Jordan BALAKASI (Malawi)
Ms. María Perla FLORES LIERA (Mexico) Mr. Ikram Mohd. IBRAHIM (Malaysia)
Ms. Loubna AL ATLASSI (Morocco) Mr. Mohammed KATRA (Mali)
Ms. Ekaterina CHUMICHEVA (Russian Federation) Mr. Parasram GOPAUL (Mauritius)
Mr. Mame Gorgui GUEYE (Senegal) Mr. OULD HABIB Abderrahmane (Mauritania)
Mr. Tomagole P. TSHOLETSANE (South Africa) Mr. YE MINN THEIN (Myanmar)
Ms. Aruni WIJEWARDANE (Sri Lanka) Mr. Tapas ADHIKARI (Nepal)
Mr. Agbessi Zomblewou KOKOU (Togo) Mr. Farrukh Iqbal KHAN (Pakistan)
Ms. Natalia Petrivna HUZERCHUK (Ukraine) Mr. Janusz WAWRZYNIUK (Poland)
Mr. Kagyabukama E. KILIBA (United Republic of Mr. Anthony Joseph COMRIE (St. Kitts and Nevis)
Tanzania) Ms. Damla Yesim SAY (Turkey)
Ms. Helen BIRD (United States of America) Mr. Karomidin GADOEV (Uzbekistan)
Mr. PHAM B. Minh (Viet Nam) Mr. Kanguya MAYONDI (Zambia)
Mr. Bebra G. MUNODAWAFA (Zimbabwe)

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1999 (26 Fellows) 2000 (28 Fellows)

Mr. José Paulino Cunha DA SILVA (Angola) Mr. Hamza KHELIF (Algeria)
Mr. Guy SUMMERS (Australia) Mr. Gaguik HOVHANNISYAN (Armenia)
Mr. Masud BIN MOMEN (Bangladesh) Mr. Eric Franck M. SAIZONOU (Benin)
Mr. Oumarou CHINMOUN (Cameroon) Mr. Leonardo CLEAVER DE ATHAYDE (Brazil)
Mr. Patricio AGUIRRE VACCHIERI (Chile) Ms. Raya Kostadinova STOYANOVA (Bulgaria)
Mr. KANG Yong (China) Mr. NHEM You Ry (Cambodia)
Mr. Pedro Agustín ROA ARBOLEDA (Colombia) Mr. Oscar LEÓN GONZÁLEZ (Cuba)
Ms. Maria Christina SANCHEZ CISNEROS (Ecuador) Mr. Ojulu Owar OCHALLA (Ethiopia)
Mr. Pedro C. NDONG ENGONO NCHAMA (Equatorial Mr. Emmanuel QUARTEY (Ghana)
Guinea) Mr. Bantan NUGROHO (Indonesia)
Mr. Aaro TOIVONEN (Finland) Mr. Abbas KADHOM OBAID ABBAS (Iraq)
Mr. Amandeep Singh GILL (India) Mrs. Diedre MILLS (Jamaica)
Mr. Kingmano PHOMMAHAXAY (Lao People’s Ms. Dina PODVINSKA (Latvia)
Democratic Republic)
Ms. Nada AL AKL (Lebanon)
Mr. Ernest Nanjeen UREY (Liberia)
Ms. Priscilla Marie-Noelle SOOGREE (Mauritius)
Ms. Sarah N.R. AL BAKRI DEVADASON (Malaysia)
Ms. Socorro JORGE CHOLULA (Mexico)
Ms. Ganhuurai BATTUNGALAG (Mongolia)
Mr. Uazuva Ben KAUARI (Namibia)
Ms. Siham MOURABIT (Morocco)
Mr. Abdul Hameed BHUTTA (Pakistan)
Mr. Said Abdulla M. AL-AMRI (Sultanate of Oman)
Mr. Frank R. CIMAFRANCA (Philippines)
Mr. Pablo Antonio CISNEROS (Peru)
Mr. LEE Sang-hwa (Republic of Korea)
Ms. Elena-Anca COCA (Romania)
Ms. Mihaela MANOLI (Republic of Moldova)
Mr. Luis Guilherme D’OLIVEIRA VIEGAS (Sao Tome and
Mrs. Natalia KRUTSKIKH (Russian Federation)
Principe)
Mr. Miloš KOTEREC (Slovakia)
Mr. Ibrahim MOHAMED ALI BUSHRA (Sudan)
Mr. Priyantha Sumedha EKANAYAKE (Sri Lanka)
Mr. Jeffrey S. TSHABALALA (Swaziland)
Mr. Hasan KHADDOUR (Syrian Arab Republic)
Mr. Igor POPOVSKI (The former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia) Mr. Zied BOUZOUITA (Tunisia)
Mr. Job Emmanuel ELOGU (Uganda) Ms. Gabrielle CANONICO (United States of America)
Ms. Tetyana IVANOVA (Ukraine) Ms. Isabelle MATYOLA-LEMBA (Zambia)
Mr. Conrado SILVEIRA RODRIGUEZ (Uruguay)

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2001 (28 Fellows) 2002 (29 Fellows)

Mr. Luciano TANTO CLEMENT (Argentina) Mr. Cameron R. ARCHER (Australia)
Mr. Vasily PAVLOV (Belarus) Mr. Emil GASIMOV (Azerbaijan)
Ms. Solange BOGORE (Burkina Faso) Mr. Mohammad Allama SIDDIKI (Bangladesh)
Mr. James GABCHE (Cameroon) Mr. Rodrigo TOLEDO BASTIDAS (Chile)
Mr. XU Wenlei (China) Mr. Kateba Coulibaly NOUHO (Côte d’Ivoire)
Mr. Juan José PÁEZ PINZÓN (Colombia) Mr. Petar MIHATOV (Croatia)
Mr. Norman LIZANO ORTIZ (Costa Rica) Mr. Assefa DELIL HASSEN (Ethiopia)
Mr. Sherif Ahmed RIFAAT (Egypt) Mr. Ingo STENDER (Germany)
Mr. Giorgi MUCHAIDZE (Georgia) Ms. Sara Angelina SOLİS CASTANEDA (Guatemala)
Mr. Mohamed Aly DIALLO (Guinea) Mr. Márk HORVÁTH (Hungary)
Mr. Vinay Mohan KWATRA (India) Mr. Mohammad ICHSAN (Indonesia)
Mr. Behnam BOLOURIAN (Islamic Republic of Iran) Ms. Sofia Renata McGregor (Jamaica)
Mrs. Maya KADOSH (Israel) Mr. Mohammed Ali AL-Nsour (Jordan)
Mr. Tatsuo NAGAI (Japan) Ms. Jane Muthoni KAHUKI (Kenya)
Mr. Fahmi ELZIANI (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) Mr. Anouparb VONGNORKEO (Lao People’s
Ms. Rosita ŠORYTÈ (Lithuania) Democratic Republic)
Mr. Sidi Ould MOHAMED LAGDHAF (Mauritania) Mr. Memory D. CHIBWANA (Malawi)
Mr. José Antonio BALMACEDA (Nicaragua) Mr. Riedzal Abdul MALEK (Malaysia)
Mr. Silas S. ANCHE (Nigeria) Mr. Jorge Luis HIDALGO PARTIDA (Mexico)
Mr. Mohammed Aqeel BA-OMAR (Oman) Mr. Jamal MAATOUGI (Morocco)
Mr. Paul DUCLOS Parodi (Peru) Mr. HTIN KYAW (Myanmar)
Mr. Grzegorz POZNANSKI (Poland) Mr. J. Marvin T. NGIRUTANG (Palau)
Mr. Israel B.K. JIGBA (Sierra Leone) Mrs. Carla Ivette POUSA CARIDE (Panama)
Ms. Nontombi MAKUPULA (South Africa) Ms. Ji-hee KIM (Republic of Korea)
Ms. Sara UDDENBERG (Sweden) Mr. Alberto NETO PEREIRA (Sao Tome and Principe)
Mr. Tchabode ADJAGBA Sebabe (Togo) Mr. Adil Y. BANNAGA (Sudan)
Mr. LE Huy Hoang (Viet Nam) Mr. Ahmad AL-HARIRI (Syrian Arab Republic)
Mr. Marko SAMARDŽIJA (Federal Republic of Ms. Mouna MCHAREK (Tunisia)
Yugoslavia) Ms. Fatma Ömür YURDAKUL (Turkey)
Mrs. Olesia PEREVEZENTSEVA (Ukraine)

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2003 (30 Fellows) 2004 (29 Fellows)

Mr. Arman ISRAELIAN (Armenia) Ms. María Paula MAC LOUGHLIN (Argentina)
Mr. Jandyr FERREIRA DOS SANTOS (Brazil) Mrs. Tatyana FEDOROVICH (Belarus)
Ms. Lachezara Stoianova STOEVA (Bulgaria) Mr. Maurille F. BIAOU (Benin)
Mr. LU Kang (China) Mr. Karma S. TSHOSAR (Bhutan)
Ms. Marcela ORDOÑEZ (Colombia) Ms. Angela K. AYLLON Quisbert (Bolivia)
Mr. Cheikh AHMED ABDALLAH (Comoros) Mr. Binega TEWELDE WELDEMARIAM (Ethiopia)
Mrs. Anayansi RODRIGUEZ CAMEJO (Cuba) Mr. Rolliansyah SOEMIRAT (Indonesia)
Mr. KABUZAMBA LUBINGA Tochi (Democratic Mr. Seyed Mohammad A. ROBATJAZI (Islamic
Republic of the Congo) Republic of Iran)
Mr. Mohamed Abdel Aziz MONEER (Egypt) Mr. Jomo Mareka GECAGA (Kenya)
Mr. Malkhaz MIKELADZE (Georgia Ms. Līga Raita KALNINA (Latvia)
Mrs. Betty OSAFO MENSAH (Ghana) Mr. Marwan FRANCIS (Lebanon)
Mrs. TOURE Aminatou Diallo (Guinea) Ms. Pulane LECHESA (Lesotho)
Ms. Nutan Kapoor MAHAWAR (India) Mr. Michael M. M. CHIUSIWA (Malawi)
Mr. Hajime KURATA (Japan) Mrs. WONG Mee Choo (Malaysia)
Mr. Donatas VAINALAVICIUS (Lithuania) Mr. Niraj Kumarsingh RAMDIN (Mauritius)
Mrs. Hantasoa FIDA CYRILLE (Madagascar) Mr. Alonso Francisco MARTINEZ RUIZ (Mexico)
Mr. Nemuun GAL (Mongolia) Ms. Salima LYOUSSOUFI (Morocco)
Mrs. Martha Namene HAIDUWA(Namibia) Mr. Mohammed Bashir BASHA (Nigeria)
Mr. Bharat Kumar REGMI (Nepal) Ms. Paulina A. GONCIARZ (Poland)
Mr. Felix A. MARADIAGA Blandón (Nicaragua) Major Hassan Saleh AL-NESF (Qatar)
Mr. Yousuf Issa AL-ZADJALI (Oman) Mr. Jong Kwon YOUN (Republic of Korea)
Mr. Khalil-Ur-Rahman HASHMI (Pakistan) Mr. Dorin PANFIL (Republic of Moldova)
Mrs. Monica C. CAMPOS FERNANDEZ (Peru) Mr. Nicolas A. NYOUKY (Senegal)
Mr. Dmitry Vladimirovich KIKU (Russian Federation) Mr. Mohamed Hussein IDRIS (Sudan)
Ms. Gordana LJUBISAVLJEVIC (Serbia and Mr. Orazdurdy A. KHEZRETOV (Turkmenistan)
Montenegro) Mr. Rauben BYERETA (Uganda)
Mr. Igor KUCER (Slovakia) Mr. Oleksander OSADCHIY (Ukraine)
Mr. WALPITA GAMAGE Sampath Prasanna (Sri Lanka) Mr. Alexander G. YANEZ DELEUZE (Venezuela)
Ms. Caroline KITANA (United Republic of Tanzania) Mr. Silumelume MUBUKWANU (Zambia)
Mr. Rustam KAYUMOV (Uzbekistan)
Mr. Mohamed Ali Saleh AL-NAJAR (Yemen)

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2005 (30 Fellows) 2006 (30 Fellows)

Mr. Mustapha BENFRIHA (Algeria) Ms. Mariela Adriana FOGANTE (Argentina)
Mr. Andranik HOVHANNISYAN (Armenia) Ms. Maleka PARVEEN (Bangladesh)
Ms. Carol M. HOLMES (Australia) Ms. Tshoki CHODEN (Bhutan)
Mr. Zoran SPASENOVIC (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Mr. Jean BENGALY (Burkina Faso)
Mr. Cláudio M. LEOPOLDINO (Brazil) Mr. Pablo Andrés CASTRO HERMOSILLA (Chile)
Mr. Dieudonné C. NIYUHIRE (Burundi) Mr. Pablo Roberto QUIÑONEZ SANZ (Ecuador)
Mr. Gaien BARKA (Chad) Mr. Hassan Ahmed EL-BAHTIMY (Egypt)
Mr. HU Zhongkun (China) Mr. Gustavo Adolfo ARGUETA HERNANDEZ
Mr. Bafétigué OUATTARA (Côte d’Ivoire) (El Salvador)
Mr. Fermín G. QUIÑONES SÁNCHEZ (Cuba) Mr. George DOLIDZE (Georgia)
Mr. Biniam Berhe TEWOLDE (Eritrea) Ms. Aminata THIAM (Guinea)
Mr. Nicolas KASPRZYK (France) Mr. Birender Singh YADAV (India)
Mr. Réné-Bertrand N’NO MINLAGHE (Gabon) Mr. Mehdi ALIABADI (Islamic Republic of Iran)
Ms. Audrey BAMPOH (Ghana) Ms. Naoko KAMITANI (Japan)
Ms. Edna V. CASTANEDA SAGASTUME (Guatemala) Ms. Sanita KRUMINA (Latvia)
Ms. Shorna-Kay RICHARDS (Jamaica) Mr. Edward S. TOGBA (Liberia)
Ms. Sewar MASA’DEH (Jordan) Mr. Aedl Omran ISSA (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
Mr. Nuran NIYAZALIEV (Kyrgyzstan) Mr. BONG Yik Jui (Malaysia)
Ms. Rimgaile KARČIAUSKAITE (Lithuania) Mr. Yousouf Mohamed RAMJANALLY (Mauritius)
Ms. Eman HUSSAIN (Maldives) Ms. Marlen GÓMEZ VILLASEÑOR (Mexico)
Ms. Rinchenmyadag SHAGDAR (Mongolia) Ms. Khyne KALYAR (Myanmar)
Mr. Fernando CHOMAR (Mozambique) Mr. Sudhir BHATTARAI (Nepal)
Mr. Muhammad Aamar AFTAB QURESHI (Pakistan) Ms. Natalia FUZHENKOVA (Russian Federation)
Mr. Enri Ciprian PRIETO Tica (Peru) Mr. Alan Charles LOGAN (Sierra Leone)
Mr. Serge Mario NDONGO (Congo) Mr. Rastislav GABRIEL (Slovakia)
Ms. Emilia SIDOROVA (Russian Federation) Ms. Dayani MENDIS (Sri Lanka)
Ms. Noelani MANOA (Samoa) Ms. Babajalscha Flurina MEILI (Switzerland)
Ms. Marija STAJIC (Serbia and Montenegro) Mr. Mohammed HAJ IBRAHIM (Syrian Arab
Republic)
Mr. DO Hung Viet (Viet Nam)
Mr. Omer BEDIR (Turkey)
Ms. Salwa Abdullah RIFAEI (Yemen)
Ms. Angela C. GJERTSON (United States of America)
Mr. Onismo CHIGEJO (Zimbabwe)

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2007 (30 Fellows) 2008 (25 Fellows)

Ms. Ivis NOCKA (Albania) Mr. Mustapha ABBANI (Algeria)
Mr. Christopher David KING (Australia) Ms. Yulia LYASHUK (Belarus)
Mr. HE Zhi (China) Ms. Dyane B. AGUIDISSOU (Benin)
Ms. Mihaela BARIC (Croatia) Ms. Anna VASSILEVA (Bulgaria)
Mr. Nikolaos MICHAELIDES (Cyprus) Ms. Angela ESTRADA JIMENEZ (Colombia)
Ms. Yvonne MBIYA ILUNGA (Democratic Republic of Ms. Heba NEGM (Egypt)
the Congo) Ms. Nardos AYALEW (Ethiopia)
Mrs. Ketlin SÜSMALAINEN (Estonia) Mr. Jaime Leonel BRITO HERNANDEZ (Honduras)
Mr. Ray Kini BALEIKASAVU (Fiji) Ms. Luna Amanda FAHMI (Indonesia)
Ms. Anne-Cécile VIOLIN (France) Mr. Amir Masoud EJTEHADI (Islamic Republic of
Mrs. Ellen Alexandra GOELZ (Germany) Iran)
Ms. Freda Oforiwa PEPRAH (Ghana) Mr. Shinji YAMASHITA (Japan)
Ms. Sheree Omeria CHAMBERS (Jamaica) Ms. Florence Kinya KABERIA (Kenya)
Mr. Toshiyuki HAYASHI (Japan) Mr. Phonesavath PHONEKEO (Lao People’s
Mr. Mohammed Sameer HINDAWI (Jordan) Democratic Republic)
Ms. Neo Mary MOKATSA (Lesotho) Mr. Ahmad ARAFA (Lebanon)
Mr. John Twapalizya KABAGHE (Malawi) Ms. Onipatsa H. TIANAMAHEFA (Madagascar)
Mr. Zeenad ABDUL WAHID (Maldives) Ms. Sandra GARCIA LOREDO (Mexico)
Mr. Madou DIALLO (Mali) Ms. Asmae DERKAOUI (Morocco)
Ms. Carolina POPOVICI (Moldova) Mr. Moustapha ABDOU (Niger)
Mr. Murad BASEER (Pakistan) Mr. Ashar SHAHZAD (Pakistan)
Ms. Justyna Magdalena BARTKIEWICZ (Poland) Mr. Raúl MARTINEZ VILLALBA (Paraguay)
Mr. Kyoo Ho LEE (Republic of Korea) Mr. Nicolae COMANESCU (Romania)
Mr. Petre Alexandru STAMATESCU (Romania) Ms. Dragana MLADENOVIC (Serbia)
Ms. Karen GALOKALE (Solomon Islands) Ms. Chwane Nomcebo V. MTHETHWA (South Africa)
Mr. Reto WOLLENMANN (Switzerland) Ms. Supapan TIAPIRIYAKIJ (Thailand)
Mr. Abdulmaola AL NUQARI (Syrian Arab Republic) Mr. Agossou Kokouda BOCCO (Togo)
Mr. Elyes LAKHAL (Tunisia)
Mr. Oleksandr KAPUSTIN (Ukraine)
Mr. Fernando SANDIN-TUSSO (Uruguay)
Mr. Gayrat YULDASHEV (Uzbekistan)

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2009 (24 Fellows) 2010 (25 Fellows)

Ms. Lianna MKRTCHYAN (Armenia) Ms. Radia Fatiha KADDOUR (Algeria)
Mr. Aykhan HAJIZADA (Azerbaijan) Ms. Maria Victoria PICAZO (Argentina)
Mr. S.M. Mahbubul ALAM (Bangladesh) Mr. Josué CASTRO (Australia)
Mr. PRAK Nguon Hong (Cambodia) Mrs. Rinchen DEMA (Bhutan)
Ms. Thérèse Christiane HANGLOG (Cameroon) Ms. Armelle EMASSI TCHAGO (Cameroon)
Mr. Juan Pablo JARA (Chile) Ms. Hongliu ZHANG (China)
Mr. ZHAO Kun (China) Mr. Carlos Enrique VALENCIA MUÑOZ (Colombia)
Ms. Aliaa ELDEEB (Egypt) Ms. Petra RUBEŠOVÁ (Czech Republic)
Ms. Dessy Oneida REYES-YANEZ (Honduras) Mr. Vasil RUBASHVILI (Georgia)
Mr. Attila JUHÁSZ (Hungary) Mrs. Adisa YAKUBU (Ghana)
Mr. Taghi MOHAMMADPOUR FERAMI (Islamic Mr. Fodé Moussa BANGOURA (Guinea)
Republic of Iran) Mr. Maytham AL-RIKABI (Iraq)
Mr. Thailesh Kumar CHAMANE (Mauritius) Mr. Yuki KIMURA (Japan)
Ms. SIANG Tial (Myanmar) Ms. Kumiushay SUIUMBAEVA (Kyrgyzstan)
Mr. Dilip Kumar PAUDEL (Nepal) Mr. Bachir SALEH AZZAM (Lebanon)
Ms. Monika LIPERT-SOWA (Poland) Mr. Gediminas KLIUKAS (Lithuania)
Ms. JANG Se Young (Republic of Korea) Ms. Angela Mija Franckline RASOARINJAFY
Ms. Elena VODOPOLOVA (Russian Federation) (Madagascar)
Mr. Abdoulaye BATHILY (Senegal) Ms. Madhvi SEEBALUCK (Mauritius)
Mr. Klemen POLAK (Slovenia) Mr. Amartuvshin AMGALANBAYAR (Mongolia)
Mr. Madi ELFATIH ALI IBRAHIM (Sudan) Ms. Stanica ANĐIĆ (Montenegro)
Mr. Matteo FACHINOTTI (Switzerland) Ms. Narcisa Daciana VLADULESCU (Romania)
Mr. Goran TRAJKOV (The former Yugoslav Republic of Mr. Alexander Vladimirovich KUKLIN (Russian
Macedonia) Federation)
Mr. Artem VOROBYOV (Ukraine) Ms. Kesarin PHANARANGSAN (Thailand)
Mr. Shukhratjon YIGITALIYEV (Uzbekistan) Ms. Silvana Cecilia DELLA GATTA ALVAREZ (Uruguay)
Mr. Giang DANG (Viet Nam)

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2011 (25 Fellows) 2012 (25 Fellows)

Ms. Ekaterina LOZOVSKAYA (Belarus) Mr. Mohamed Lamine SIARI (Algeria)
Ms. Gracinda Marisia da Cruz FORTES (Cape Verde) Ms. Heather Louise CHAI (Australia)
Ms. Andrea QUEZADA CARRASCO (Chile) Ms. Larissa SCHNEIDER CALZA (Brazil)
Mr. ZHAO Li (China) Mr. Fernando GUZMÁN MUÑOZ (Chile)
Ms. Katherine Mercedes URBAEZ MARTINEZ Mr. Xiaohong ZHANG (China)
(Dominican Republic) Ms. Maria Andrea TORRES MORENO (Colombia)
Mr. Mootaz MANSOUR (Egypt) Ms. Lilianne SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ (Cuba)
Ms. Kristi TORIM (Estonia) Mr. Dilafera Bekele BEDANE (Etiopia)
Mr. Ulrich KÜHN (Germany) Mr. Tamba TOLNO (Guinea)
Ms. Tatiana ZELAYA BUSTAMANTE (Honduras) Mr. Manjunath DENKANIKOTTA CHENNEERAPPA
Mr. David Elek HORVATH (Hungary) (India)
Mr. Anas Abdullateef Mohi AL-NEIAMI (Iraq) Mr. Akbar NUGRAHA (Indonesia)
Mr. Shinsuke SAKAMOTO (Japan) Mr. Stefano BORGIANI (Italy)
Ms. Dana SMAGANBETOVA (Kazakhstan) Mr. Ryohei KANAMARU (Japan)
Mr. Abel David Muniu NJUGUNA (Kenya) Ms. Nour Mamdouh Kaseb ALJAZI (Jordan)
Ms. Raja Intan NOR ZAREEN (Malaysia) Ms. Shanda Anne-Louise COOPER (Liberia)
Ms. Ifigenia ARGUETA SANCHEZ (Mexico) Ms. Dalia VITKAUSKAITĖ-MEURICE (Lithuania)
Mr. Gleb MASLOV (Russian Federation) Ms. Mudita BAJRACHARYA (Nepal)
Mr. Mirko KUZMANOVIC (Serbia) Mr. Oumar IBRAHIM SIDI (Níger)
Ms. Kershney Chantelle NAIDOO (South Africa) Mr. Carlos Enrique GARCÍA CASTILLO (Peru)
Ms. Teresa DÍAZ-MORERA VENTÓS (Spain) Mr. Tomasz TOKARSKI (Poland)
Ms. Seraina CADUFF (Switzerland) Mr. Iurie TABUNCIC (Republic of Moldova)
Mr. Dable BOTRE (Togo) Ms. Cecilia Anna Desirée ANDERBERG (Sweden)
Ms. Ramla KHAMIS (United Republic of Tanzania) Ms. Rita GRUENENFELDER (Switzerland)
Ms. Andreea Ioana PAULOPOL (United States of Ms. Pakprapai THONTIRAVONG (Thailand)
America) Ms. Emilia Tendisai CHIGWEDERE (Zimbabwe)
Mr. Berdibek ALIBEKOV (Uzbekistan )

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2013 (25 Fellows) 2014 (25 Fellows)

Mr. Juan Francisco GUTIÉRREZ TELLERÍA (Argentina) Mr. Larbi Abdelfattah LEBBAZ (Algeria)
Ms. Corinne Trang Thi Thu TRAN (Australia) Ms. Pem Sedon THINLEY (Bhutan)
Mr. Shelley SALEHIN (Bangladesh) Ms. Wen-Jei LIM (Brunei Darussalam)
Mr. Sylvain FANIELLE (Belgium) Mr. ZHANG Jinjing (China)
Ms. W. Honorine BONKOUNGOU (Burkina Faso) Ms. Madelin Esther LUNA (Dominican Republic)
Mr. Stéphane C. NOAH (Cameroon) Mr. Mina RIZK (Egypt)
Mr. Ibrahim SAID ABDELRAHIM IBRAHIM (Egypt) Mr. José Roberto CHÁVEZ (El Salvador)
Ms. Huda M. YUSUF (Ethiopia) Ms. Salaseini TAGICAKIBAU (Fiji)
Ms. Melissa E.E. SÄILÄ (Finland) Ms. Vera KHAJALIA (Georgia)
Mr. Dávid PUSZTAI (Hungary) Mr. Daniel GITTINGER (Germany)
Mr. Mehdi ROUZEH GIR QALEH NOEE (Islamic Republic Ms. Nana Afia TWUM-BARIMA (Ghana)
of Iran) Mr. Daniel GRIFFITH (Guyana)
Mr. Ryota TAKEMURA (Japan) Mr. Mohsen ASKARIAN (Islamic Republic of Iran)
Ms. Phonenipha MATHOUCHANH (Lao People’s Mr. Johan Andrïa RAMANDIMBISON (Madagascar)
Democratic Republic)
Mr. Pavle KARANIKIĆ (Montenegro)
Ms. Sandra B. SÁNCHEZ AGUILLÓN (Mexico)
Ms. Asmaa BENNI (Morocco)
Mr. Bold-Erdene YADAMSUREN (Mongolia)
Ms. Safia Diallo MAMADOU DIALLO (Niger)
Ms. SANN THIT YEE (Myanmar)
Ms. Imaobong EFFIONG-ARCHIBONG (Nigeria)
Mr. Syed Atif RAZA (Pakistan)
Ms. Udani MANAMPERI GUNAWARDENA (Sri Lanka)
Ms. Shirley L. FLORES (Philippines)
Mr. Christoph CARPENTER (Switzerland)
Mr. Abdulaziz Hamdan AL-AHMAD (Qatar)
Mr. Wanou Ankoura SAMON (Togo)
Ms. Soo Yeon SHIM (Republic of Korea)
Ms. Feride MURADOVA (Turkmenistan)
Mr. Radu Constantin BĀDITĀ (Romania)
Mr. Grant William SCHNEIDER (United States)
Ms. Tijana BOKIĆ (Serbia)
Mr. NGUYEN DANG Trung (Viet Nam)
Mr. Samvel ARUSTAMIAN (Ukraine)
Mr. Ng’andwe Anderson KAPAYA (Zambia)
Mr. Jeffrey Dubov GELMAN (United States)
Mr. Julio Martín ORLANDO CHIFFLET (Uruguay)

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2015 (25 Fellows) 2016 (25 Fellows)

Ms. Estefania PORTA (Argentina) Mr. Abdul Ahad SHIRZAD (Afghanistan)
Ms. Neli Yaroslavova BOGOMILOVA (Bulgaria) Mr. Mohammed OUADAH (Algeria)
Mr. Charles Joseph GUIBLA (Burkina Faso) Mr. John Matthews BANKS (Australia)
Mr. Sim’s Nono SIMABATU MAYELE (Democratic Mr. Mohamed Abdulla Ali ALNOAIMI (Bahrain)
Republic of the Congo) Ms. Nina NIYUBAHWE (Burundi)
Ms. Lia Berthiana BOUANGA AYOUNE (Gabon) Ms. Sandrine E. EBONGUE MAKOLLE (Cameroon)
Ms. Carina Yvonne STELLER (Germany) Mr. Camilo Rodolfo MILLANAO LLOPIS (Chile)
Ms. Miriam Aba ARHIN (Ghana) Ms. Wenwen HUANG (China)
Mr. Pedro GORDILLO (Guatemala) Mr. Koffi Arsene BOUA (Côte d’Ivoire)
Ms. Rose Bilenda SAINT FORT (Haiti) Ms. Claudia MORGADE DONATO (Cuba)
Mr. Yuki NAKATA (Japan) Ms. María Gabriela ESPÍN ORDÓÑEZ (Ecuador)
Ms. Anar FAZYLOVA (Kazakhstan) Ms. Selam Nigussie KETSELA (Ethiopia)
Ms. Rana EL KHOURY (Lebanon) Mr. Giorgi PIPIA (Georgia)
Ms. Loyce MERRICK (Malawi) Mr. Stefano SALDI (Holy See)
Mr. Jorge Adalberto GONZALEZ MAYAGOITIA (Mexico) Ms. Szilvia BALÁZS (Hungary)
Ms. Hnin Lai Lai SAN (Myanmar) Mr. Pawankumar Tulshidas BADHE (India)
Mr. Surendra THAPA (Nepal) Mr. Mojtaba AZIZI BASATI (Islamic Republic of Iran)
Mr. Vyacheslav KOSAREV (Russian Federation) Mr. Hamzah Habeeb Mohammed Hadi AL-SADR
Ms. Masa GRIMM (Serbia) (Iraq)
Ms. Dana Maria-Magdalena KOMAREK (Switzerland) Mr. Takahiro OMORI (Japan)
Ms. Pimchanok JIRAPATTANAKUL (Thailand) Ms. Somsanouk KEOBOUNSAN (Lao People’s
Mr. Tchein NINKABOU (Togo) Democratic Republic)
Mr. Erdal ONAT (Turkey) Mr. Franz Pierre RASSL OCAMPOS (Paraguay)
Ms. Hailey Rose ROBBINS (United States of America) Ms. Vera TARSINA (Republic of Moldova)
Mr. Azam TOSHPULATOV (Uzbekistan) Ms. Tsoma Harriet SATEKGE (South Africa)
Mr. Munyaradzi Amon Benedict TUMBARE Mr. Michael James BUTERA (United States of
(Zimbabwe) America)
Ms. Constance Chuzhya BELLINGTON (Zambia)

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2017 (25 Fellows) 2018 (25 Fellows)

Mr. Fernando Pedro MARQUES (Angola) Mr. Mr. Mohammad Jawad RAHA (Afghanistan)
Ms. Namgyel SONAM CHODEN (Bhutan) Ms. Merinda Cristiana PETERSEN (Australia)
Mr. Dario KREZIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Ms. Nahida BAGHIROVA (Azerbaijan)
Ms. Darina Atanasova ZHELYAZKOVA (Bulgaria) Ms. Tshepang Thero SETHANTSHO (Botswana)
Ms. Hema Doun-Sarma Safiatou SOULAMA OUATTARA Mr. Ernesto BATISTA MANÉ JÚNIOR (Brazil)
(Burkina Faso) Mr. YAO Yue (China)
Ms. Somalin SAN (Cambodia) Ms. Marcela ZAMORA OVARES (Costa Rica)
Ms. Laura Steffany QUINTERO-BURITICA (Colombia) Mr. Hervé MAGARIBI LEHANI (Democratic Republic
Ms. Artida MINGA (France) of the Congo)
Ms. Lina-Marieke HILGERT (Germany) Mr. Finnbogi Rútur FINNBOGASON (Iceland)
Ms. María del Rosario ESTRADA GIRÓN (Guatemala) Ms. Shae-Alicia Samantha LEWIS (Jamaica)
Ms. Bernite LAZARE FRANÇOIS (Haiti) Ms. Nagisa TAKAHASHI (Japan)
Mr. Javad BAKHSHI (Islamic Republic of Iran) Ms. Venephet PHILATHONG (Lao People’s
Ms. Dana ERLICH (Israel) Democratic Republic)
Ms. Gulsana TULEPBERGENOVA (Kazakhstan) Ms. Ance KLAVA (Latvia)
Ms. Hantavololona RAMAHAZOSOA (Madagascar) Mr. Masaab E. M. HAMZA (Libya)
Ms. Nur Azureen MOHD PISTA (Malaysia) Ms. AISHATH ZEESHAN ZUHUREE (Maldives)
Ms. Tejaswinee BURUMDOYAL (Mauritius) Mr. Amaraa ERDENEBAATAR (Mongolia)
Ms. Lalla Saloua MOUMNI (Morocco) Mr. Goran RULJIĆ (Montenegro)
Ms. Magdalena Hilde Ndapandula SHIPIKI (Namibia) Ms. Marta António Jorge MUANDO (Mozambique)
Mr. Manuel Rodolfo MUNDACA PEÑARANDA (Peru) Mr. Manga MAZOU MANI (Niger)
Ms. Karla Mae Gueriña PABELIÑA (Philippines) Mr. Muhammad Salman Khalid CHAUDHARY
(Pakistan)
H.H. Prince Salman AL SAUD (Saudi Arabia)
Ms. Rafaela FIGUEIRED CARVALHO MIRANDA
Mr. Fakhry Basem Fakhry TAHA (Palestine)
(Portugal)
Mr. Domingos OKI (Timor-Leste)
Mr. François Michel Moundor DIENE (Senegal)
Ms. Tabitha NAMULINDA (Uganda)
Ms. Rachel Marie HICKS (United States)
Ms. Arline Cristina DÍAZ MENDOZA (Venezuela)
Ms. Paidamwoyo Melinda Mitchelle SIGAUKE
(Zimbabwe)

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2019 (25 Fellows)

Mr. Luciano Javier LIENDO (Argentina)
Ms. Marina MESROPYAN (Armenia)
Ms. Shaikha Jawaher Abdulla Mohamed ALKHALIFA
(Bahrain)
Ms. Mahoussi Florence LOKOSSOU (Benin)
Ms. Anitha CONGERA (Burundi)
Mr. Hamizanne MATH (Cambodia)
Mr. Loïc MBIDA (Cameroon)
Mr. Salvador Humberto MARTINEZ SANTAMARIA
(Dominican Republic)
Mr. Fouad Fouad Fouad HETTA (Egypt)
Ms. Lisa Catherine Jane RANGER (France)
Ms. Idlège Anouchka MVOU LOUBA (Gabon)
Ms. Julia FREESE (Germany)
Ms. Nidhi TEWARI (India)
Ms. Suha Abdulkareem Zamil GHARRAWI (Iraq)
Ms. Giselle Del Carmen RODRIGUEZ RAMIREZ
(Panama)
Ms. Seunghee SHIN (Republic of Korea)
Mr. Bogdan MOLDOVEANU (Romania)
Mr. Dorde ZAKULA (Serbia)
Ms. Natasha Patricia Carvalho CARVALHO-MALEKANE
(South Africa)
Ms. Fathuma Mafusa MOHAMED LAFIR (Sri Lanka)
Ms. Riham I.M. BARGHOUTHI (State of Palestine)
Mr. Moritz Alexander Christian GLATTHARD
(Switzerland)
Mr. Ivens Manuel Francisco GUSMÃO DE SOUSA
(Timor-Leste)
Ms. Kristan Nadia JHAGROO (Trinidad and Tobago)
Ms. Prisca Oscar MWANJESA (United Republic of
Tanzania)

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