Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Alicia Sanders-Zakre is a research assistant on arms control and non-proliferation at a Washington, DC think tank and a contributing reporter for Arms Control Today. She graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in 2016 with a bachelors degree in international relations and a concentration in international security.

Authored by Alicia Sanders-Zakre

UN Photo / Paulo Filgueiras: https://www.un.org/disarmament/signing-ceremony-for-the-treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons/

Analysis / Commentary, Next Gen Community

Do weapons prohibitions work? It’s complicated.

By: Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Published: Feb 6, 2018

If the nuclear ban treaty follows trajectories of other weapons prohibitions, it could strengthen the norm against nuclear weapons use and possession, and even decrease production. Difficult work likely lies ahead, however.

Analysis / Commentary, Next Gen Community

From New York to DC – The Civil Society Divide on the Nuclear Ban

By: Alicia Sanders-Zakre and CSIS PONI

Published: Apr 5, 2017

I’m sharing excerpts from an interview with Toshiki Fujimori, a Hiroshima bomb survivor and assistant secretary general of HIDANKYO (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), who sits squarely in the humanitarian camp.