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Patricia Morris

Patricia Morris
Spring 2011 Fellow
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Patricia Morris
Spring 2011 Fellow
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Morris is Program Officer for the Children and Armed Conflict Accountability Initiative at Conflict Dynamics. She supports projects and activities that advance policymnaker and practitioner capacity, creativity, and connections to advance accountability for perpetrators of violations against children in war. She is a 2015 Truman National Security Fellow. She was formerly a Migration Consultant with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) at the World Bank. CGAP is a global partnership of 34 leading organizations that seek to advance financial inclusion through research and active engagement with financial service providers, policy makers, and funders. She served as a translation editor for four websites in French, Arabic, Spanish and English for CGAP’s Microfinance Gateway websites (launched summer 2014) and provided quality assurance during the mass migration of old content to the new websites. In 2013, she was selected as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. She is a member of Women in International Security and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.

Previously she was a consultant at Global Health Equity Foundation, a 501(c)(3) focused on equitable access to health care. She served as a Program Coordinator for a suicide prevention program, the Development Officer, and Project Manager for a website redesign project. She previously was a volunteer Research Associate for Open Briefing, a startup civil society intelligence agency in Geneva. She provided research and fact-finding for intelligence analyses of the Middle East and specifically a paper the founder wrote on psychology and international security related decisions. Following her fellowship Morris worked as a Research and Editorial Assistant at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation on a project to create a report on the four-year goal President Obama set forth in 2009 to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials through improved security and weapons-usable material conversion and elimination. She also wrote a course curriculum for West Point Military Academy’s Counter Terrorism Center on the implications of the Arab Spring.