ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Gender and Small Arms
Moving into the Mainstream
Emily Schroeder and Lauren Newhouse
Lauren Newhouse, a gender specialist with an MA in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, is currently scheduled to spend four months in Ankara, Turkey, working for the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. She spent two years conducting research for the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and served as rapporteur for the 2003 Expert’s Meeting on Gender and Small Arms, which was co-sponsored by the United Nations Fund for Women and the Small Arms Survey. She also joined the International Action Network On Small Arms Women’s Network at the 2003 Biennial Meeting of States to assist in developing networking strategies that advocated gender perspectives in the small arms context.
Emily Schroeder is completing an MA degree at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, with a focus on gender and disarmament. She spent five months of an International Professional Service semester with the Institute for Security Studies Arms Management Programme. Other work she has done on disarmament issues includes the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s UN Office, the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs, and the International Action Network on Small Arms Women’s Network.
