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Roger Williamson
Programme Director and member of Wilton Park Academic Staff since November 1999. Studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University (BA). Research at Hamburg and Birmingham Universities (PhD). Positions with British Council of Churches; Life & Peace Institute, Sweden; Council for Arms Control; Church of England and Christian Aid. Consultant/committee member with NGOs including Amnesty International, International Peace Research Association, Swedish Red Cross, and World Council of Churches. Specialist on international affairs, human rights, development, religion and conflict, arms trade and social ethics. Publications include: Profit without Honour? Ethics and the Arms Trade, CCADD, London, 1992; Some Corner of a Foreign Field: Intervention and World Order, (editor) Macmillan, Basingstoke and London & St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998.