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Lora Lumpe
Legislative Representative, US Campaign to Ban Landmines
As FCNL’s Legislative Representative for Conventional Weapons, Lora Lumpe lobbies and campaigns for more responsible U.S. arms export policies—including a ban on U.S. use and export of cluster bombs and anti-personnel landmines. She coordinates the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines on behalf of FCNL and represents FCNL on the steering committee of the global campaign to achieve a universal Arms Trade Treaty.
Before joining FCNL’s staff in September 2007, Lora served for six years as a consultant for Amnesty International USA on the human rights implications of US military and police training programs around the world and on US arms export policies. She also worked as a consultant in recent years for the Open Society Institute, Small Arms Survey, the United Nations, AFSC, Swiss Government, and numerous other organizations.
During 1998-1999 she was a senior researcher on staff at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), where she developed a research program on small arms production and trade in support of the Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT)—a coalition including Norwegian Red Cross and Norwegian Church Aid working to curb small arms proliferation and misuse. For NISAT, she edited Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms (London: Zed/New York: St. Martins, 2000). Also for NISAT she helped to develop an interactive Internet database of state-authorized small arms production and transfers (www.nisat.org) and mobilized activism in support of responsible governmental laws and policies to curb gun-running.
Lora founded the Arms Sales Monitoring Project at the Washington, DC-based Federation of American Scientists (FAS) in 1991 and directed it through mid-1998. This project continues to work to reduce surplus production and export of conventional weapons, principally by the United States. From 1988-1992 she worked at FAS in support of the negotiation and entry into force of a global treaty outlawing chemical weapons by managing production of a quarterly journal, the Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin.
Her other books include The Arms Trade Revealed: A Guide for Activists and Investigators (Washington, DC: FAS, 1998) and Small Arms Control—Old Weapons, New Issues (London: Ashgate, 1999). She has published numerous book chapters, conference papers, and opinion pieces.
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10/09/2007
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