Norm Building in the Evolution of the Control of Small Arms in the International Agenda

Denise Garcia

Denise Garcia is a Research Fellow with the International Security Program and the Intrastate Conflict Program at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She has done her Ph.D. work at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, where she was a Teaching Fellow. Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled: “Making New International Norms – Small Arms Control”.

Currently, she is also a Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s Department of Government. She helped teach a course on Arms Control with Professor Andrew Kydd in the Fall 2004, and is now teaching a Sophomore Tutorial on International Politics.

Her main research interests are international norms, disarmament, and development. Garcia has extensively applied her research interest for analyzing the rise of the issues of small arms, light weapons, and landmines in the international agenda. She has held positions at the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, and the Peace Building and Disarmament Program of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, and at UNESCO Brazil.

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