Dr David Atwood

Dr David Atwood is a Visiting Fellow in the Emerging Security Challenges Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and an Advisor at the Small Arms Survey. He is the former Director of the Quaker UN Office in Geneva, where he also headed the Disarmament and Peace Programme. He has worked on a wide range of international peace and security issues since coming to Geneva in 1995. His work has concentrated mainly on enabling processes related to international peace and security policy with UN missions, international agencies and non-governmental organizations. He obtained his PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina in 1982. His most recent publications include: “Under the Gun: Can a Global Treaty Regulate Small Arms Trade?” (IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review, March 2013); From the Inside Out: Observations on Quaker Work at the United Nations (Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 2012); and “NGOs and Multilateral Disarmament Diplomacy: Limits and Possibilities” (in John Borrie and V. Martin Randin (eds), Thinking Outside the Box in Multilateral Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, UNIDIR, 2006).