Rachel Stohl

Rachel Stohl is Senior Vice President of Research Programs at the Stimson Center and Director of the Conventional Defense Program. Prior to joining Stimson, Stohl was an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, from 2009-2011. She was a Senior Analyst at the Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.C. from 1998-2009. Stohl has been a consultant for a variety of international organizations, including Oxfam, Project Ploughshares, SIPRI, the Small Arms Survey, and World Vision. She served as a Scoville Fellow at the British American Security Information Council in D.C. and worked at the United Nations Center for Disarmament Affairs in New York and at the Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and Conversion in Monterey, CA. Stohl is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.

Stohl was the consultant to the U.N. ATT process from 2010-2013 and was previously the consultant to the U.N. Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on the Arms Trade Treaty in 2008 and the U.N. Register for Conventional Arms in 2009.

She is co-author of two books, The International Arms Trade (Polity Press, 2009) and The Beginners Guide to the Small Arms Trade (Oneworld Publishing, 2009).

Stohl holds an M.A. in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and an honors B.A. in political science and German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

To learn more about how Stohl got her start, read her “My Story.

Projects
Supporting effective implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty
Examining the nexus between arms sales, military assistance, and the recruitment and use of child soldiers around the world
Promoting an effective, transparent, and accountable US drone policy and responsible international standards guiding drone transfers and use
Identifying and analyzing enduring and emerging international security issues that will confront the UN Security Council
Promoting long-term stability and security through responsible arms sales and advancing transparent and accountable policies and processes for arms transfer decisions
Identifying common implementation good practices by crosswalking trade control regimes for conventional defense and dual use CBRN items
Exploring the changing character of war and its implications for US foreign and defense policy
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