The following are brief descriptions of each of the organizations that participate in the program. Scoville Fellows may only work with one of these groups.
Because the Scoville Fellowship has a rule prohibiting organizations from hosting fellows in consecutive semesters, the groups that have spring 2012 fellows
will not be eligible to host fellows during the fall 2012 semester. The recently-selected spring fellows will not select host organizations until after the fall application deadline. Applicants should list their 5-6 preferred organizations with the understanding that their top choices may not be available in the fall.
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Arms Control Association
British American Security Information Council
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Center for Defense Information
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund
Federation of American Scientists
Friends Committee on National Legislation Education Fund
Global Green USA
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Institute for Science and International Security
National Security Archive
National Security News Service
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Partnership for Global Security
Partnership for a Secure America
Peace Action Education Fund
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Project On Government Oversight
Henry L. Stimson Center
Truman National Security Project Educational Institute
Union of Concerned Scientists
Women’s Action for New Directions
ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY
322 4th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 544-0217
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) is a national coalition of over thirty peace and environmental organizations representing citizens who live in the shadows of the nuclear weapons complex and are directly impacted by U.S. nuclear weapons activities. We work on nuclear weapons, waste, energy, health and environmental cleanup issues. Current priorities include breaking the links between nuclear weapons and energy by stopping the Mixed Oxide Plutonium Fuel Program, opposing new and modified nuclear weapons and new weapons production facilities, and supporting quality environmental cleanup. ANA has an office in Seattle and an office in Washington, DC.
Scoville Fellows work in our Washington, DC office, located in the same building as the Council for a Livable World, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Women’s Action for New Directions. Fellows also collaborate with ANA staff in our New Mexico and South Carolina offices and our membership across the country. As a small office, we offer Fellows numerous opportunities to be involved in our issue advocacy, research, and organizing work. Fellows assist in tracking and reporting on congressional and executive agency developments, perform research and write public comments in response to National Environmental Policy Act documents, assist with targeted education of Members of Congress, help coordinate our media presence, and participate in coalition meetings and activities.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy
1200 New York Avenue, NW, 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 326-6400
The Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy (CSTSP) was established by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) through the generous support from the Science, Technology & Security Initiative at the MacArthur Foundation. The goal of the Center is to encourage the integration of science and public policy for enhanced national and international security. The Center acts as a two-way portal that facilitates communication between academic centers, policy institutes, and policymakers.
A Scoville Fellow would work on a dedicated project to examine a specific area of science and security, such as radiation portal monitors, to discover what the federal government is doing to promote the deployment of existing technology and the development of future devices. A Fellow might keep track of what is happening in the DC-based science and security world by attending briefings and writing summaries of those events, and tracking some legislation. They would also look at what is happening in the university research community to track cutting edge research. The specific project depends on the background of the Fellow. The Center is also very interested in international collaboration among scientists, particularly in Asia and the Muslim world and have some ideas for projects there. Fellows with strong science backgrounds are preferred.
ARMS CONTROL ASSOCIATION
1313 L Street, NW
Suite 130
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 463-8270
The Arms Control Association (ACA) is a non-partisan organization committed to promoting public understanding of arms control issues and policies. The Association through its media program, publications, and its monthly journal Arms Control Today, provides the media, Congress, research institutions, and civic groups with information and analyses on arms control and its contribution to national security. A Scoville Fellow would work at ACA as a junior staff member assisting with the publication of Arms Control Today, providing support for the media program or working with senior analysts on existing research projects.
BRITISH AMERICAN SECURITY INFORMATION COUNCIL
110 Maryland Avenue, NE
Suite 205
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 546-8055
The British American Security Information Council (BASIC) is an independent transatlantic organization with a commitment to multilateral nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. BASIC facilitates the exchange of information and analysis on these global security issues in order to foster informed debate. With offices in Washington and London, we engage with policy makers and opinion shapers in a constructive manner, and serve as a trusted source of information for politicians, government officials and other decision-makers.
Scoville Fellows help the rest of the staff manage this flow of information and can also expect to have a research project of their own, resulting in the publication (most likely Web-based, but possibly hardcopy) of a fact sheet or report.
CENTER FOR ARMS CONTROL AND NON-PROLIFERATION
(sister organization of Council for a Livable World )
322 4th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 546-0795
The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is dedicated to enhancing international peace and security and protecting the American people from the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The Center seeks to reduce and ultimately eliminate nuclear weapons as a tool of U.S. national security policy, halt the spread of all weapons of mass destruction, stop the deployment of a national missile defense system, and redirect national spending to better address the genuine threats facing the United States.
A Scoville Fellow working at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation would play an important role in researching and developing informational materials that would serve not only to educate the general public but to provide Congress with the technical information necessary to make informed decisions on arms control issues. The Center focuses on the policy makers in Washington, D.C.: Members of Congress, their staffs, reporters and foreign policy experts.
CENTER FOR DEFENSE INFORMATION
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Suite 615
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 332-0600
Founded in 1972, the Center for Defense Information is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to independent research on the social, economic, environmental, political and military components of global security. CDI was renamed the World Security Institute in 2005, but remains a division of the organization focused on “hard power” defense issues. Our President is Dr. Bruce G. Blair, a former Minuteman Missile officer and world-renown scholar on nuclear weapons issues (latest work: Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2010, “Why Further Nuclear Cuts Would Be Safe”).
Nuclear weapons non-proliferation, de-alerting, reduction, and staged and verified elimination comprise a large segment of the organization’s current work through its “Global Zero” project (www.globalzero.org). It is possible that a Scoville Fellow may participate in a new international research project on the budgetary costs of nuclear weapons systems and delivery vehicles. Alternatively, a Fellow might work on the education/advocacy side of Global Zero (now a 400,000+ person international movement, with a major London Summit planned for spring 2011). CDI produces a quarterly Defense Monitor newsletter which has in the past included short works by junior staff and Fellows.
The organization founded and recently spun-off as a separate non-profit organization the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (www.pulitzercenter.org). The award-winning (Emmy, Webby, other) Center staff continue to carry out their work on our offices.
CENTER FOR NONPROLIFERATION STUDIES
Monterey Institute of International Studies
1400 K Street, NW
Suite 450
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 842-3100
The Center for Nonproliferation Studies is a research and training institution focusing on global and regional nonproliferation issues. The Center undertakes research on a wide range of nonproliferation topics, conducts seminars and training sessions for scholars, governmental officials, and the media and issues a variety of publications on nonproliferation, including a triennial journal, The Nonproliferation Review, the monthly WMD Insights, and the monthly International Export Control Observer. The Washington, D.C., office is home to senior scholars in nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile proliferation.
Current priority activities to advance the nonproliferation agenda include: encouraging efforts in NIS countries to minimize the use of weapons-grade uranium in civilian activities; containing the adverse impacts of opening U.S. nuclear trade with India; analyzing the growing use of financial controls as a sanction to slow proliferation; refining options for international nuclear fuel supply guarantees as an alternative to national uranium enrichment programs; evaluating export control programs in states of particular concern; defining the key elements of biological weapons (BW) know-how that need to be controlled to slow BW proliferation; and monitoring the global proliferation of cruise missiles and promoting means for constraining their further spread.
A Scoville Fellow can expect to engage in research and writing on nonproliferation developments as part of CNS projects led by senior staff and will also have the opportunity to pursue independent research, leading to one or more publications. In addition, a Fellow will participate in and help organize various seminars and training programs conducted by the Center; take part in briefings with foreign governmental officials and scholars, and U.S. congressional staff; and attend Congressional hearings and events at other Washington, DC, think tanks.
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND BUDGETARY ASSESSMENTS
1667 K Street, NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 331-7990
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is a nonprofit, public policy research institute established to continue and expand upon the research and public education activities conducted by the Defense Budget Project since 1983. CSBA exists to make clear the inextricable link between military planning and defense investment strategies over both the near and long term. CSBA’s research provides data-based analyses of defense budget trends and examines defense strategy options using cutting-edge assessment techniques designed to foster a more efficient defense. CSBA works with policymakers in the Executive and Congressional branches of government, military service officials, industry executives, media, and academic and other analysts.
A Fellow working with CSBA would assist staff analysts in gathering resource materials and data for reports, backgrounders, and updates; assist in preparation of materials for the media; and provide support for congressional staff briefings and other conference and workshop briefings. The Fellow would have the opportunity to be active in all aspects of CSBA’s work.
CITIZENS FOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS EDUCATION FUND
(formerly World Federalist Association)
420 Seventh Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 546-3950
In today’s interdependent world, our lives, our jobs and our families are increasingly affected by global problems, such as terrorism, climate change, war and infectious diseases. Because these problems are global in scope, it is vital that countries work together to solve them.
Citizens for Global Solutions, a grassroots membership organization, envisions a future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone. Our programs address U.S. global engagement, peace and security, international law and justice, health and environment, and international institutions. We have focused projects on UN peace operations, non-proliferation, the International Criminal Court and United Nations reform.
Scoville Fellows work primarily with the program director or directly with the CEO. We will work with each Fellow to design an individualized project that addresses their particular interests and builds on their skills while also allowing them to play an essential role on our team. Fellows most often work on peace and security issues and focus specifically on UN peace operations, disarmament and non-proliferation, norms of humanitarian intervention and specific conflicts, as well as providing information on the role of international organizations and cooperation in combating terrorism and WMD. The Fellow would undertake the following tasks, among others: research and writing for multiple audiences, web updates, meeting coordination, and policy analysis.
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS
1725 DeSales Street, NW
6th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 546-3300
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) was founded in 1945 by the atomic scientists associated with the Manhattan Project. FAS has been in the forefront of research and analysis in reducing nuclear dangers, improving biological security, calling for responsible government policies on secrecy and classification, monitoring the conventional arms trade, developing educational technologies, and enhancing energy efficiency in buildings. Recently, FAS has begun a new program area in earth systems, including the interactions among the systems of energy, land, water, and food. The objective is to identify more effective government and corporate policies to protect the environment and provide for greater security in energy and other resources.
A Scoville Fellow with FAS would work in our downtown Washington, DC, office and have the opportunity to participate in the policy making process by assisting staff scientists and other experts in a range of activities tailored to the fellow’s strengths. The fellow would have the choice of working on any of our initiatives including controlling nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, monitoring and analyzing the conventional arms trade, or assessing earth systems. The fellow would be given his or her own project, which could involve the development of educational materials as well as research and writing about policies to address specific security issues. Fellows will have ample opportunity to attend Washington briefings and seminars in addition to hearings on Capitol Hill. Our goal is to introduce talented young people into the policy arena and provide a solid background in security studies using scientific analytical methods although fellows are not required to be scientists themselves. Candidates should have strong computer skills and an interest in the technical or political aspects of national and international security.
FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION EDUCATION FUND
245 Second Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 903-2517
The FCNL Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that conducts research, publishes information on legislation and government policy for the public and members of Congress, and trains constituents to conduct effective advocacy. FCNL Ed Fund has a nationwide network of more than 50,000 active constituents and fifty years of experience in leading nuclear disarmament campaigns.
Recent activities have included successfully opposing the proposed nuclear “bunker buster” and the “Reliable Replacement Warhead,” and the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement, and supporting increases in the nuclear nonproliferation programs. In 2009, FCNL Ed Fund will focus on support for U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and increased funding for nuclear nonproliferation programs.
A Scoville Fellow assumes many substantive projects at FCNL Ed Fund, which are geared to help the Fellow learn the legislative process, understand how to conduct effective legislative and grassroots advocacy, and network for a career in the field.
These projects include:
-Researching, writing, and distributing materials on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the START agreement, the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and other nuclear nonproliferation issues;
-Publishing articles (in the Fellow’s name) on nuclear weapons issues in national and local media outlets and in FCNL publications for constituents;
-Managing the FCNL Nuclear Calendar, a chronicle of nuclear weapons-related events in DC and around the country with 12,000 subscribers;
-Organize briefings for the NGO community and FCNL constituents with high profile speakers;
-Network with constituents, grassroots activists, and local leaders in key states to educate them about nuclear weapons issues and help them coordinate advocacy campaigns;
FCNL has successfully placed all past nuclear disarmament Scoville Fellows and program assistants in positions at other NGOs and in the government.
GLOBAL GREEN USA
Security and Sustainability Program
1100 15th Street, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 222-0700
Global Green USA (GGUSA) is a non-profit, public interest organization founded in 1994. We are headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and are the U.S. affiliate of Green Cross International (GCI) in Geneva, Switzerland. Our founder and president is Mikhail Gorbachev. We have more than 30 national affiliates around the world in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
The founding of the organization originated from NGO discussions at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro; a year later, five countries — US, Russia, Japan, The Netherlands, and Switzerland — established Green Cross in Kyoto, Japan. The overarching goal of Green Cross and President Gorbachev is to promote a “value shift” in how humanity manages the earth. Within that broad vision, our international peace and environmental programs include energy and resource efficiency, reforestation, water and conflict, recycling, environmental education, and weapons cleanup and destruction.
Our Security and Sustainability Program work is a combination of arms control, disarmament, peace, and environmental security issues. The program is aimed at promoting and facilitating the safe and environmentally sound destruction of weapons stockpiles, the cleanup of military lands, and the full implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements.
We have been very active over the past decade in facilitating the destruction of chemical weapons (CW) in both the U.S. and Russia; this has included promotion of ratification of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention in both Washington and Moscow, public outreach and stakeholder involvement at Russian and U.S. CW stockpile sites, and international facilitation of Cooperative Threat Reduction and G8 Global Partnership programs. We have also been engaged in nuclear, biological, and conventional weapons issues (such as unexploded ordnance [UXOs], landmines, strategic rocket motors, and military base cleanup).
The Security and Sustainability Program includes Green Cross affiliates in the US, Russia, Switzerland, Belarus, and the Ukraine. Our work is thus very international in scope and is supported by U.S. and European governments, corporations, foundations, and individual donations. We network at all levels — international, national, regional, and local — and seek to promote full stakeholder involvement, consensus building, and safe demilitarization procedures.
Scoville Fellows would have the opportunity to work in our Washington, DC office on Security and Sustainability Program issues. This would involve research, writing, and/or organizing events on nuclear, chemical, biological and/or conventional weapons issues most often related to nonproliferation and weapons demilitarization. We have ongoing projects on Russian nerve agent destruction; buried, “non-stockpile” chemical weapons in the US; dismantlement and storage of nuclear warheads and fissile materials; environmental impacts of military training; biological threat reduction; and the environmental legacies of war. The specific Scoville Fellow project would be worked out based on mutual interests and needs.
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
6935 Laurel Avenue, Suite 204
Takoma Park, MD 20912
(301) 270-5500
The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) provides the public and policy makers with thoughtful, clear, and sound technical studies on a range of environmental, nuclear and energy issues, bringing scientific excellence to public policy debates. IEER’s publications focus on the environmental consequences of nuclear weapons production, alternative energy, nuclear disarmament, and related issues. Its newsletter, Science for Democratic Action, uses non-technical language and humor to make scientific information accessible to policy makers, activists, and the media, both in the U.S. and other nuclear weapons states. IEER also has an international newsletter, Energy & Security, which is published in Russian, French, and Chinese. The aim of IEER is to promote the democratization of science and a safer, healthier environment.
A Scoville fellow working at IEER would be involved in one or both of IEER’s main projects: Technical Support to Grassroots Groups on Nuclear Issues, or the Global Outreach Project for Reducing Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers. Depending on a fellow’s qualifications, work might include research and writing on technical topics related to nuclear weapons production — including forthcoming reports on the ecological effects of modern war, nuclear power phase-out, and threats to water resources around nuclear sites; research and writing for IEER’s newsletter on issues such as disarmament, de-alerting nuclear weapons, and plutonium disposition; and/or preparing materials for and presenting at IEER’s technical training workshop on nuclear power decommissioning and waste management. Depending on the fellow’s language skills and other capabilities, work may include writing, research and possibly travel in association with our global project, which focuses on nuclear issues in Russia, France, Britain and to a lesser extent China, Japan and South Asia.
INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
236 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 547-3633
The Institute for Science and International Security is a non-partisan, non-profit research organization that provides the public, media and policy makers with clear analyses of scientific and policy issues affecting national and international security. Since its inception in 1993, ISIS has award-winning and internationally recognized technical assessments of proliferant state efforts to get the bomb, including detailed evaluations of South Africa’s and Iraq’s nuclear weapons programs. ISIS has compiled comprehensive estimates of plutonium and highly enriched uranium inventories worldwide, and continues to seek a global cutoff of the production of these nuclear explosive materials. ISIS has also provided critical information in support of efforts to reduce the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and production complex, to end nuclear testing, and to prevent the future development of new types of nuclear weapons by all countries. ISIS works regularly with government officials and independent experts and scientists both in the U.S. and internationally to further its goals of creating more effective nuclear nonproliferation strategies and reducing the size of existing nuclear arsenals.
A Scoville Fellow at ISIS would be involved in one or both of the organization’s research efforts: the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project and the Nuclear Weapons Production Project. In particular, he or she would gather information, help set up ISIS-sponsored conferences, and events, and provide other important research assistance in close cooperation with ISIS staff to further the completion of existing tasks.
THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE
2130 H Street, NW
Suite 701
Washington, DC 20037
(202) 994-7000
The National Security Archive, founded in 1985, is an independent, non-profit research institute, library facility and publisher in Washington, DC With a staff of 30 and a budget of $1.3 million, the Archive provides scholars, journalists, librarians, students and other researchers with unclassified and declassified government documents — the primary source documents — that are indispensable for research and informed public debate on important issues of foreign, intelligence, defense and international policy.
The Archive obtains documents for its series The Making of U.S. Policy, from a wide variety of source including: requests made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Mandatory Declassification Review process, donations, Presidential libraries, official court records, Congressional reports and testimony and oral histories.
As a leading advocate of the FOIA, the archive enlists major Washington law firms to perform pro bono FOIA representation. The Archive’s lawsuits have broken down the fee barrier used by agencies as a threat against reporters and researchers to deter them from using FOIA. The Archive brought the first lawsuit to preserve and obtain access to government electronic mail. Other cases have forced the release of thousands of previously classified documents including the complete list of all documents ever declassified by the CIA and the FBI’s internal memos on the attempted recruitment of librarians as informants.
A Scoville fellow would work in tandem with analysts on one of more current research projects. This would include building chronologies of events, helping obtain, analyze, and index government documents, and performing research in libraries, archives and on Capitol Hill.
NATIONAL SECURITY NEWS SERVICE
1830 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20009
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 466-4310
The National Security News Service (NSNS) works to increase and improve the major news media’s coverage of military, arms control and international security stories. The News Service investigates and documents stories and provides the information to reporters and producers on a one-on-one basis, and distributes its reporting through dcbureau.org. The News Service also arranges briefings by experts, scientists, Administration officials, Members of Congress, and diplomats for reporters and editors.
A Scoville Fellow would work with one of the full-time journalists in our Washington bureau, researching news stories. S/he will interview sources and obtain documents through the Freedom of Information Act requests, and from the Pentagon, CIA, State Department, Library of Congress and other research facilities and pass it along to journalists. Candidates should have an interest in journalism, international relations, science, or a related field.
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
Nuclear Program
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 289-6868
For 35 years, NRDC’s Nuclear Program has sought to reduce the risks from both the military and civil applications of nuclear energy. It is the only U.S. environmental NGO to have continuously maintained a program of scientists, seasoned policy analysts, and litigators dedicated to drastically reducing and ultimately eliminating the security and environmental risks from nuclear arsenals worldwide. The Program played a key role in the citizen scientist diplomacy that helped to end to the Cold War and nuclear weapons test explosions, and it was NRDC litigation that established the judicial precedent that brought DOE’s nuclear weapons complex under the jurisdiction of the nation’s environmental laws. The Program remains a leading nongovernmental authority on world nuclear forces and the history and operations of their supporting nuclear weapons complexes, and a prominent voice in the academic and policy debates over the future of nuclear power and proliferation in an era of climate
change.
The Scoville Fellow will join NRDC’s nuclear program team of six technical experts, policy analysts, and attorneys working on one or more of the following projects: (1) creation of a International Nuclear Fuel Agency (INFA) to control the spread of sensitive nuclear fuel cycle facilities with inherent capacity for producing nuclear weapons-usable materials; (2) U.S.-Russian cooperative monitoring of nuclear test-site activities to promote U.S. ratification and entry-into-force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT); (3) Transforming the US nuclear posture and weapons complex for transition to a nuclear-weapons-free world; (4) Critical assessment of global nuclear power programs (including in the U.S), proliferation risks, and their potential for cost-effective carbon-displacement in relation to other low-carbon electric power technologies; (5) Preventing environmental harms from weakly regulated In-Situ Leach (ISL) uranium mines in the Rocky Mountain West.
Working closely with program staff, the Scoville Fellow will have opportunities for research, analysis, writing, advocacy and mentoring commensurate with the fellow’s experience, creativity, capabilities, and interests. The fellow will have an opportunity to gain exposure to the full range of the Nuclear Program’s activities, and to work with experts in related areas of NRDC, such as the International, Energy, and Climate programs.
Founded in 1970, NRDC now has a staff of more than 300 attorneys, scientists, economists and other professionals working on a broad range of environmental challenges. NRDC has more than 1.2 million members and online activists and major offices in New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Beijing.
NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE
1747 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 296-4810
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is a non-profit organization with a mission to strengthen global security by reducing the risk of use and preventing the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and to work to build the trust, transparency and security which are preconditions to the ultimate fulfillment of the Non-Proliferation Treaty’s goals and ambitions.
NTI can provide a unique educational experience to Scoville Fellows by assisting in developing leadership skills that can serve the Fellow throughout a career in the peace and security field and by facilitating their contribution to the critically important work of NTI.
Depending on interest and expertise, a Scoville Fellow could work on one of the following topics: identification of indicators and methods of tracking progress on nuclear materials security, research and participation in efforts to promote nuclear materials transparency and cooperation, and development of exercises to identify critical issues and to promote action on a range of topics. The Fellow would also attend relevant local meetings and Congressional hearings, and support a range of NTI activities.
PARTNERSHIP FOR GLOBAL SECURITY
(formerly the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council)
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 506
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 332-1412
The Partnership for Global Security (PGS) is an independent, non-governmental research organization dedicated to generating support for more robust nuclear materials security and biological security architectures. PGS has over 13 years of accumulated experience in evaluating policy needs, developing policy responses, and driving demonstrable results. PGS also has a unique perspective on the nuclear security and biological security challenge. It approaches these challenges from a multidimensional perspective and strives to include all disciplines and stakeholders that are relevant to the policy solution. In this regard, PGS is constantly evaluating how the convergence of security, technological, and economic issues are shaping the twenty-first century’s global nuclear and biosecurity challenges. PGS’ goal is to drive ideas into action to further critical international security objectives by originating, integrating, and packaging policy focused information.
The primary responsibilities of a Scoville Fellow working at PGS would be to conduct original research and produce reports (for both internal and external consumption) on issues affecting global security efforts, including tracking and analyzing political and economic developments, monitoring regional nonproliferation concerns, and assisting in the development of innovative policy responses. The Scoville Fellow would also attend relevant meetings, conferences, and congressional hearings, and prepare summaries of these events. Lastly, the Fellow would assist the PGS president and Washington Office staff in their research on major threat reduction and nonproliferation policy issues.
PARTNERSHIP FOR A SECURE AMERICA
2000 P Street, NW
Suite 505
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 293-8580
The Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) was created in 2005 by a group of senior Democrats and Republicans to lead by example, demonstrating that bipartisan progress on the toughest foreign policy and national security challenges is possible. Over the past five years, we have succeeded in fostering and promoting bipartisan consensus on dozens of important policy issues, often through high profile public statements by our distinguished bipartisan Advisory Board. In addition, PSA administers a bipartisan Congressional Fellows Program, which provides mid-level Hill staffers from both parties with substantive foreign policy education, negotiation and communication trainings, simulated national security decision making exercises, and social activities designed to build relationships of mutual trust and respect across party lines.
The PSA Advisory Board, chaired by former Senator Warren Rudman (R-NH) and former Congressman Lee Hamilton (D-IN), consists of 23 highly distinguished foreign policy officials from previous administrations, including six former Senators, four former National Security Advisors, former Secretaries of State and Defense, three former UN Ambassadors, and a former Governor. Of this group, roughly half are Democrats and half Republicans. A complete list of PSA Advisory Board members, and links to PSA statements, is available at www.PSAonline.org.
A Scoville Fellow would serve as a Research Assistant with PSA. In this capacity, the Fellow would:
• Undertake a supervised research and writing project on a case study of bipartisanship in the national security and foreign policy process;
• Help research, draft, and revise bipartisan policy statements;
• Draft press releases, talking points and other materials supporting PSA initiatives;
• Work with the media to promote coverage of PSA’s activities;
• Help plan and organize events promoting PSA Advisory Board statements and the Congressional Fellows Program;
• Attend and report on relevant Washington briefings and seminars as well as hearings on Capitol Hill;
• Help manage the organization’s online presence and advocacy tools;
• Contribute to the PSA blog, “Across the Aisle.”
PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND
8630 Fenton Street, Suite 524
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 565-4050 ext. 316
Peace Action is the nation’s largest grassroots peace organization with nearly 40 state affiliates, over 100 local chapters, 31 Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) chapters, over 100,000 dues-paying members and official NGO status with the United Nations. For over 50 years, Peace Action has organized to eliminate the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction, strengthen human rights and democracy by halting the arms trade, increase international cooperation and cut wasteful Pentagon spending.
A Scoville Fellow working with Peace Action will have the unique experience of transforming policy knowledge into grassroots activism and grassroots activism into political change. Peace Action plays a lead role in facilitating collaborative partnerships between our allies on Capitol Hill, our colleagues in the peace and security policy community, and our network of grassroots peace activists across the country. As a fellow at Peace Action, you will have opportunities to forge relationships with allied organizations in the Washington area, while translating the latest congressional strategies and policy developments to our activists in the field for their grassroots outreach, education and advocacy on issues related to the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, promoting diplomacy in Iran, nuclear disarmament, and human rights and international cooperation. Peace Action is the only organization working on these issues that uses all the tools in the social change tool box: From working with Senators, Representatives and senior congressional staff to civil disobedience, and from grassroots organizing and coalition building to electoral strategies. A fellow will get to see all these tools and learn how to use them strategically to affect policy change.
Peace Action’s national office has a staff of sixteen persons and is located just a block from the Silver Spring metro stop in downtown Silver Spring, MD and 25 minutes from the Capitol. Several Peace Action grassroots affiliates are in the area and travel to conferences or events within the U.S. is likely. Though rare, past Scoville Fellows travelled internationally.
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 1012
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 667-4260
Scoville Fellows at Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) will be valued partners on a team of doctors, public health professionals, peace and security experts, and grassroots organizers. The combination of policy and grassroots work, which enabled PSR to share the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985, is still a central focus of our enduring advocacy on issues of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
Central to a Scoville Fellow’s experience at PSR will be working on the continuing advocacy for the Comprehensive Test Ban and Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties. PSR’s respected position in the nuclear arms community helps us coordinate closely with many partner organizations in DC and around the country. A Scoville Fellow should expect to be working on substantive research, writing, and outreach objectives during their fellowship. We view it as both our responsibility and privilege to act as mentors to our Fellows.
Founded in 1961, PSR is a nationwide network of 32,000 members and 31 chapters affiliated with the global federation of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT (POGO)
1100 G Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005-3806
(202) 347-1122
The Project On Government Oversight is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that champions good government reforms. POGO’s investigations into corruption, misconduct, and conflicts of interest achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government. We often work with whistleblowers and other insiders, utilize the Freedom of Information Act, and use other means to bring new information into the public domain.
Since POGO’s beginning it has aggressively sought to make the case that a larger defense budget does not make America safer, and that much of the defense budget is wasteful. We are troubled by the outsourcing of the Pentagon, particularly to companies providing logistics and security services in war zones. We believe the defense services industry costs more in general than government employees, is difficult to hold accountable, and creates an industry dependent on the continuation of hot wars (for instance, KBR and Blackwater do not do that much when the U.S. is not at war;). POGO also aggressively monitors the contractors that build military hardware, conduct in-depth investigations into weapons procurement, and advocate for improvements.
The Scoville Fellow would regularly write blog posts on weapon systems, aggressive influence peddling by contractors, contractor misconduct, and other defense budget and accountability issues; would work on in-depth investigations into national security-related waste and misconduct, producing several substantial products such as letters or reports each term; and would work with reporters, congressional staffers, and insiders to advocate for public policy reforms, including the cancellation of weapons systems.
POGO stands out from numerous other organizations because of the emphasis we place on uncovering new information that can change the course of the debate over the defense budget. One of the ways we do that is by utilizing investigative journalism techniques that emphasize working with insiders. Because of this, we are seen by many as a non-ideological, fact-based organization that many on both sides of the political aisle turn to for reliable information.
THE HENRY L. STIMSON CENTER
1111 19th Street, NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 223-5956
The Stimson Center concentrates on particularly difficult national and international security issues where policy, technology and politics intersect. Its aim is to produce research that is relevant to policy makers, rigorous by academic standards, and understandable by the public at large. Our projects deal with regional security (South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia), countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and institution building (peacekeeping, homeland security, Congress). At this time there are ten active research and policy analysis projects housed at the center. The Stimson Center has a full-time staff of 40, which is complemented by interns, visiting fellows, and adjunct scholars.
A Scoville Fellow would be assigned to work with one of the center’s senior associates or the president. In their capacity as a junior researcher at the Stimson Center, a Scoville Fellow would be tasked to research particular issues, to prepare publications that summarize public forums, to arrange press briefings in Washington and around the United States, to participate in collaborative programs the center undertakes with other think tanks and advocacy organizations, and to assist with the strategic dissemination of center findings and recommendations through its web page and other means.
TRUMAN NATIONAL SECURITY PROJECT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
1050 17th Street, NW
Suite 375
Washington DC 20036
(202) 216-9723
The Truman National Security Project Educational Institute is a national security leadership training institute, the nation’s only organization that recruits, trains, and positions a new generation of progressives across America to lead on national security. Our mission is to provide the skills, knowledge, and network to create an influential force of leaders across the country who advance strong progressive national security policy. As staff in the Executive and on Capitol Hill, our trained leaders are the individuals who will advocate for progressive policy ideas from within the halls of power. And as trained spokespeople, our leaders add the unique credibility of their national security and military service to support progressive ideas in tough parts of the country.
We offer separate training programs for summer interns, congressional staff, and elected leaders:
• Congressional Security Scholars: Senate and House staff must be nominated by the Chief of Staff to take part in our twelve-week training, which deepens their background on national security, foreign policy budgeting in Congress, communication training, and the foundational concepts of progressive security thought.
• National Security Bootcamps: Full-day workshops for state and local leaders, candidates, and other progressive organizations to provide a backbone of military knowledge, local homeland security information, professional communications training, and an introduction to the progressive security worldview.
• Summer Springboard: A five-week training for summer interns to build a generation of progressive activists across the entire progressive infrastructure who have a sophisticated understanding of security issues.
• Backgrounders: Short, well-messaged policy pieces to train Congressional staff and other leaders in how to advocate for and message a crucial policy issue.
• Truman Security Fellowship: Our flagship program is a highly selective year-long leadership development program for rising stars ages 27-40 operating in ten cities nationwide.
One of the most crucial issues that next generation leaders must address is the new security environment surrounding nuclear weapons. In January 2007, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, William Perry, and Sam Nunn published a groundbreaking op-ed. These four recognized security leaders wrote, “Reliance on nuclear weapons for [deterrence] is becoming increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective. U.S. ….Leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage – to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to preventing their proliferation into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world.” They quoted Ronald Reagan, who “called for the abolishment of “all nuclear weapons.” And they laid out a strategy for moving to an approach we term “getting to zero”.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the Truman Project will create a “Getting to Zero” curriculum module across all of our training programs. The program will be advised by Advisory Board Member William Perry, former Secretary of Defense, and the curriculum will draw on the work of leading thinkers in the field. A Scoville Fellow will work on the Getting to Zero curriculum development project. S/he would assist us in creating and, once piloted, improving curriculum. The Fellow would interact with leading thinkers in the nuclear non-proliferation field and undertake significant research to assist in building these trainings. S/he would work with our senior staff to create curriculum materials based on that research, including lectures, interactive trainings. Finally, the Scoville Fellow would be involved in the creation of scenarios which serve as training tools to help others understand the tough policy issues involved in Getting to Zero, the interagency activities necessary, and methods to improve messaging on Getting to Zero to assist advocates in Washington and around the country.
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
Nuclear Weapons & Global Security Program
1825 K Street, NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006-1232
(202) 223-6133
An independent, nonprofit organization with 200,000 activists and members, the Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.
UCS’s Global Security Program, where Fellows would work, endeavors to bring about a safer world by eliminating the risks posed by nuclear arsenals and nuclear terrorism, improving nuclear power plant safety, preventing the deployment of anti-satellite and space-based weapons, and enhancing international dialogue on security issues. UCS’s policy goals include stopping the deployment of new nuclear weapons, limiting the deployment of unworkable missile defenses, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons material and technology, securing deep cuts in world nuclear arsenals leading to their elimination, and increasing arms control expertise in China.
Scoville Fellows do not need a technical background to work here. Fellows work primarily with the Global Security Washington Representative/Senior Analyst, who is responsible for presenting UCS’s positions to Congress, the administration, and the public. They also work with the Project Manager for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy Initiative, a new nationwide program designed to work toward the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons, focusing on the 2008 presidential election. Tasks include research, analysis, and writing on one or more security issues; representing UCS at meetings and seminars; monitoring Congressional action on arms control and security issues; and helping to develop briefings, educational materials, and information for UCS members. Ample opportunities are provided for Scoville Fellows to attend educational seminars and briefings and otherwise benefit from their Washington experiences.
UCS gets involved in all aspects of issue advocacy: research, writing, media work, lobbying, grass roots education. Scoville Fellows who come to UCS are exposed to the widest possible range of activities and skills
WOMEN’S ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS
322 4th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 544-5055
Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND) was founded in 1980 as a women’s political initiative for the elimination of the threat of nuclear war. WAND’s mission since the 1990s has broadened to include increasing women’s political power nationwide for the purpose of eliminating weapons of mass destruction and redirecting unnecessary funding for cold war weapons to human needs. WAND is a national membership organization with chapters across the country.
The Women Legislators’ Lobby (WiLL), a project of WAND, is a national network of women state legislators with members in every state. WAND community leaders and WiLL members engage in grassroots lobbying, community education, and work actively on election campaigns. A Scoville fellow would work with the Washington, DC staff of WAND and WiLL to research and write on disarmament and federal budget issues, track legislation, and assist with projects such as our biennial lobby day, media outreach and education to state legislators and grassroots.