THE HERBERT SCOVILLE JR.
PEACE FELLOWSHIP

Participating Organizations

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 prohibits organizations from hosting Fellows in consecutive semesters, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Union of Concerned Scientists will not be eligible to host a Fellow during the Spring 2009 semester.

ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY
322 4th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 544-0217

CONTACT PERSON: Susan Gordon

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 working on nuclear weapons, waste, health and environmental cleanup issues. Current priorities include opposing a return to nuclear testing, 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. 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 federal and congressional developments, perform background research and develop position papers, assist with targeted education of Members of Congress, help coordinate grassroots organizing activities, help maintain the ANA website, and participate in coalition meetings and activities.

ARMS CONTROL ASSOCIATION
1313 L Street, NW
Suite 130
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 463-8270

CONTACT PERSON: Daryl Kimball, Executive Director

0The 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

CONTACT PERSON: Christina Lindborg

The British American Security Information Council (BASIC) focuses on
transatlantic security relations, biological weapons control, missile defense, conventional weapons control, and the prospects for deep nuclear reductions involving all nuclear powers. With governing directors and offices on both sides of the Atlantic, BASIC facilitates the exchange of information and analysis on these global security issues in order to foster informed debate.

Working closely with an international network of researchers, BASIC collects information on evolving government policies and develops critical analysis. The newsletter, BASIC Reports, is a standard source in the security policy community. BASIC works extensively with the media, serving as a resource for journalists covering foreign policy and defense issues.

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

CONTACT PERSON: John Isaacs 

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

CONTACT PERSON: Theresa Hitchens, Vice President

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.  Its central aim is to educate the public and inform policy-makers about issues of security policy, strategy, operations, weapons systems and defense budgeting, and to produce creative solutions to the problems of today and tomorrow.

CDI has a great deal to offer a Scoville Fellow.  CDI is engaged with Congress, journalists, academics, activists, and embassies.  Furthermore, we offer Fellows an opportunity to work in print media (The Defense Monitor and through published Op-Eds), electronic media (our website), radio, and television.  Depending on the Fellow's interests, he or she will be assigned to write a series of issue updates for the website, or an issue of our quarterly publication, The Defense Monitor.  In recent years, Scoville Fellows have researched and produced a full-length monograph, printed and distributed by CDI.

A Scoville Fellow at CDI will also work on some smaller research projects, such as writing fact sheets and position papers for the website.  Like all other members of the staff, a Fellow will be expected to participate in staff meetings and help answer public inquiries.

CENTER FOR NONPROLIFERATION STUDIES
Monterey Institute of International Studies
1111 Nineteenth Street, NW
Twelfth Floor
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 464-6000

CONTACT PERSON: Deborah Berman

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 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY POLICY
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1200 New York Avenue, NW, 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 326-6400

CONTACT PERSON: Benn H. Tannenbaum, PhD, Senior Program Associate

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.

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND BUDGETARY ASSESSMENTS
1667 K Street, NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 331-7990

CONTACT PERSONS: Jennifer Kole, Executive Assistant, and Laureen Andrews, Deputy Director

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)
418 Seventh Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 546-3950

CONTACT PERSON: Raj Purohit

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 program managers or Vice Presidents. 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 within our Peace and Security program, which focuses on UN peace operations, non-proliferation (including NPT2.0), 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

CONTACT PERSON: Steve Stewart

The Federation of American Scientists was founded in 1945 by the atomic scientists associated with the Manhattan Project. The Federation has been addressing issues arising from the threat of nuclear weapons and misuse of science and technology including focused efforts on non-proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. They are also involved in arms control, homeland security and public preparedness issues.

A Scoville Fellow with the Federation of American Scientists would work in our downtown Washington DC office and have the opportunity to participate in the policy making process by assisting staff scientists 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 the control of Nuclear, Biological or Chemical Weapons, Arms Trade or Homeland Security. They would be given their own project, which could involve the development of educational materials, research and writing about specific threats or measures to prepare for public emergencies. Fellows will have ample opportunity to attend Washington briefings and seminars as well as hearings on Capitol Hill. Our goal is to introduce talented young people into the policy arena and provide a solid background in strategic security. Candidates should have strong computer skills and an interest in the technical or political aspects of national security.

FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION EDUCATION FUND
245 Second Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 547-6000, ext. 2524

CONTACT PERSON: Ruth Flower, Legislative Director

The FCNL Education Fund (FCNL Ed Fund) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that conducts research, publishes pertinent information on legislation and government policy, educates the public and members of Congress, and trains constituents. Its partner organization, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is a Quaker lobby in the public interest and is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. FCNL Ed Fund and FCNL have a longstanding commitment to human rights, international cooperation, and arms control.

The FCNL Ed Fund has more than 50,000 active constituents, about half of whom are Quakers. The Ed Fund works with a nationwide network of people from many different races, religions, and cultures to advocate social and economic justice, peace, and good government. It has a history of fifty years experience in leading nuclear and conventional disarmament campaigns.

The FCNL Ed Fund offers Scoville placement opportunities in two programs: nuclear disarmament and the campaign to ban cluster bombs.

Nuclear disarmament has been a priority of Quakers since the 1950s. Recent activities have included the successful opposition to the proposed nuclear “bunker buster,” opposing the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement, and supporting increases in the nuclear nonproliferation programs of the Energy Department.

In 2008, the FCNL Ed Fund will focus on opposing the proposed new nuclear weapons complex, “Complex Transformation” (formerly known as “Complex 2030”), opposing the Reliable Replacement Warhead, supporting better relations with Iran while opposing its development of nuclear weapons, and encouraging the 2008 presidential candidates to adopt responsible nuclear policies.

Cluster bombs – the “new landmines” issue -- moved to the center of the FCNL Ed Fund agenda in just the past few years. FCNL staff were consulted on the drafting of legislation to restrict the use and export of cluster bombs, which continue to threaten and injure civilians decades after their use in combat. That legislation is now pending in the House and Senate. As a result of increased public awareness of the issue, Congress banned exports of U.S. cluster bombs during 2008. This one-year reprieve needs to be just a first step toward a permanent ban on these weapons.

Whether focused on nuclear disarmament or on banning cluster bombs, the work program of the Scoville Fellow would be based in part on his or her strengths and interests. The Fellow will have numerous opportunities to:

-Write and distribute materials on topics such as “Complex Transformation,” the Reliable Replacement Warhead, the cluster bombs’ impact on children and other civilians, the science behind cluster bomb “dud rates”, and other issues that are pertinent to the nuclear disarmament program or the campaign to ban cluster bombs.

-Travel for speaking engagements on nuclear or cluster bomb issues.

-Produce fact sheets that would be distributed to congressional offices and FCNL constituents.

-Publish articles in outside publications on nuclear or cluster bomb issues.

-Help organize FCNL events featuring high profile speakers, such as interfaith exchanges with Iranian professors or briefings from families of victims of cluster bombs.

-Attend congressional hearings and occasional seminars or workshops on nuclear weapons and conventional weapons issues.

GLOBAL GREEN USA
Legacy Program
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036-2001
(202) 222-0700
pwalker@globalgreen.org

CONTACT PERSON: Paul F. Walker, Ph.D., Legacy Program Director

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 27 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 Legacy 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 Legacy 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 Legacy Program issues.  This would involve research, writing, and/or organizing 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; Russian submarine dismantlement; 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

CONTACT PERSON: Arjun Makhijani, PhD, President

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

CONTACT PERSON: Paul Brannan

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

CONTACT PERSONS: Malcolm Byrne, Director of Research or Bill Burr, Senior Analyst

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
1100 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 1310
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 466-4310

CONTACT PERSON: Christopher Law

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. 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 Weapons & Waste Program
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 289-6868

CONTACT PERSON: S. Jacob Scherr

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a national environmental organization with an active program to halt the build-up and spread of nuclear weaponry. For over 15 years, NRDC has employed a unique combination of scientific, legal, and policy expertise to address critical nuclear weapons issues. NRDC has been a leader in the effort to open the U.S. nuclear weapons complex to public scrutiny and environmental accountability. In 1986 NRDC launched its unprecedented project with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. NRDC has become a recognized source of authoritative information on nuclear weapons as a result of its publication of the Nuclear Weapons Databook Series.

The Scoville Fellow will join NRDC's nuclear program team of seven technical experts, researchers, and attorneys working on one or more of the following projects: nuclear weapons production, Soviet nuclear weapons, Chernobyl Citizens Monitoring Network, Nuclear Weapons Databook, and weapons proliferation. Working closely with program staff, the Scoville fellow will be given responsibilities for research, analysis, writing, and advocacy commensurate with the fellow's experience and capabilities. The fellow will have an opportunity to gain an exposure to the full range of arms control, advocacy methods and activities.

NUCLEAR CONTROL INSTITUTE
1000 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 804
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 822-8444

CONTACT PERSON: Sharon Tanzer, Vice President

Nuclear Control Institute is an independent research and advocacy center specializing in problems of nuclear proliferation. Non-partisan and non-profit, we monitor nuclear activities worldwide and pursue strategies to halt the spread and reverse the growth of nuclear arms. The Institute was founded in 1981.

The Institute focuses on eliminating weapons-usable materials, plutonium and highly enriched uranium, from civilian nuclear programs. Interacting with government, industry and the public-interest sector, NCI pursues innovative approaches to replacing these deadly materials in nuclear power and research programs with safer, non-weapons usable, nuclear fuels.

NCI's current initiatives include advocating direct disposal as waste of warhead plutonium from dismantled weapons; opposing use of plutonium as fuel in civilian power reactors; re-examining the threat of nuclear terrorism in the face of concerns about an emerging black market in plutonium and bomb-grade uranium; opposing the reprocessing of spent fuel from civilian nuclear reactors and the start-up of experimental reprocessing technologies.

A Scoville Fellow would have the opportunity to do research and writing in one of the Institute's issue areas, in coordination with Institute staff. This work would include legislative and advocacy activities on behalf of NCI and a coalition of arms-control and environmental organizations.

PARTNERSHIP FOR GLOBAL SECURITY
(formerly the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council)
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 1106
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 332-1412

CONTACT PERSON: Raphael Della Ratta

The Partnership for Global Security (PGS) is an independent, non-governmental research organization dedicated to increasing the security of weapons of mass destruction and reducing proliferation risks. PGS's priority is supporting the cooperative threat reduction agenda between the U.S., Russia, and the other former Soviet states and promoting its expansion to address global proliferation dangers.

PGS regularly monitors and evaluates threat reduction cooperation, programs, and legislation; cooperates with governments involved in threat reduction efforts, including the U.S., Russia, and other G-8 nations; utilizes the significant technical and political experience of its board, staff, and partners to produce and disseminate analyses, recommendations, and reports; and works with academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and the media around the world.

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 U.S.-Russian and international cooperative threat reduction efforts, including tracking and analyzing political and economic developments inside Russia, or monitoring related regional nonproliferation concerns. 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 Washington Office Director and the Executive Director in their research on major threat reduction and nonproliferation policy issues.

PEACE ACTION
1100 Wayne Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-565-4050 ext  316

CONTACT PERSON: Paul Martin

Peace Action is the nation's largest grassroots peace organization with 27 state affiliates, over 100 local chapters, 31 Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) chapters, and over 90,000 dues-paying members. For over 40 years, we have 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 unique opportunities to forge relationships with allied organizations in the Washington area, while translating the latest legislative 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, nuclear nonproliferation, human rights and international cooperation.

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.

PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 1012
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 667-4260

CONTACT PERSON: Douglas B. Shaw, Director of Security Programs

Physicians for Social Responsibility, which shared in the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, provides strong mentoring and professional development opportunities for Scoville Fellows from any discipline. Scoville Fellows at PSR can expect to be meaningfully engaged in substantive work related to prudent and effective steps toward a world free of nuclear weapons, prevention of the use or spread of nuclear weapons, and promoting diplomacy and alternative conflict resolution techniques to avoid war. PSR’s current security programs include analytical work to develop new knowledge about the dangers nuclear weapons and security policies pose to human life and health, organizing work to mobilize doctors and allied health professionals for peace and security, and advocacy work to ensure that the interests of potential victims of nuclear weapons and war are represented in the policy process.

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.

THE HENRY L. STIMSON CENTER
1111 19th Street, NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 223-5956

CONTACT PERSON: Cheryl Ramp, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

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. 

20/20 VISION
Peace Program
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 860
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 587-1782

Working with our Program Director, a Scoville Fellow would assist with arms control issues. He or she would track legislation, disseminate information to our local chapters, and help write action alerts and newsletter articles. The fellow would also attend strategy meetings and congressional hearings. Depending on the issues of focus at the time, the fellow may work more narrowly on a particular campaign, such as stopping National Missile Defense.

UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
Global Security Program
1707 H Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 223-6133

CONTACT PERSON: Stephen Young

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

CONTACT PERSON: Marie Rietmann, Public Policy Director

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.