Based in Washington, DC, Lora Lumpe is a researcher and writer working primarily on issues relating to military aid, weapons trade, and human rights. She is a consulting Senior Associate with the International Peace Resarch Institute, Olso and a member of the Advisory Board for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project. She consults frequently for human rights groups and UN agencies.
Recent publications include U.S. Military Training: Global Reach, Global Power (FPIF 2002); Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms (New York: St. Martins, 2000); Small Arms Control: Old Weapons, New Issues (London: Ashgate, 1999); The Arms Trade Revealed: A Guide for Investigators and Activists (Washington: FAS, 1998) and Recycled Weapons: American Exports of Surplus Arms, 1990-1995 (Washington: FAS, 1996).
During 1998-1999 she was a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), where she developed a research program on small arms production and trade in support of the Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers--a coalition including Norwegian Red Cross and Norwegian Church Aid working to curb small arms proliferation and misuse.
Previously, Lora founded the Arms Sales Monitoring Project at the Federation of American Scientists in 1991 and directed it through 1998. The project works to reduce surplus production and export of conventional arms.
From 1988-1992 she worked in support of the negotiation and entry into force of a global treaty outlawing chemical weapons by managing a quarterly journal, the Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin.
Articles written by this Advisory Committee Member for FPIF
America AWOL on Cluster Bombs
May 21, 2008
Military Training Programs: A Need for Oversight and Human Rights Courses
Jun 1, 2002
U.S. Foreign Military Training: Global Reach, Global Power, and Oversight Issues
May 1, 2002
Small Arms Trade
May 1, 1998
* Note from the FPIF Editor: Although the Advisory Committee shares
FPIF's broad principles of internationalism, human rights, anti-militarism,
and sustainable development, FPIF doesn't expect all members necessarily to
agree with or endorse all the policy prescriptions that we publish.
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