Areas of Research

• Arms control, non-proliferation, and disarmament regimes
• Nuclear diplomacy (disarmament, deterrence, strategic stability)
• Gender and women’s empowerment in international security
• The EU and UN’s role in arms control, non-proliferation, and disarmament
• The DPRK nuclear weapons programme
• Humanitarian disarmament (of conventional weapons and of weapons of mass destruction)

Background

Federica Dall’Arche is a Senior Research Associate with the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP). She also serves as an advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy. She is a former policy advisor to the Italian Presidency of The Council of Ministers (Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri). Ms. Dall’Arche’s work focuses on arms control, non-proliferation, and disarmament, and on gender in international security.

She is the co-founder of the Young Women and Next Generation Initiative (YWNGI) under the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (EUNPD) Consortium. Most recently, Ms. Dall’Arche authored a book, titled Non-Proliferazione, Controllo degli Armamenti e Disarmo Umanitario: una breve guida pratica, published by the Italian National Association of Civil War Victims.

She completed an internship at the Asian-Pacific Center for Security Studies, an academic institute of the U.S. Department of Defense, and was later the recipient of the United Nations Security Council Monitor Fellowship at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and of the Non-proliferation and Nuclear Security Fellowship at the Pacific Forum - Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). During her career, Ms. Dall’Arche has also worked at Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Deloitte UK, the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies (CNS), the William Tell Coleman Library and as a freelance collaborator for the magazines AirPress Formiche and Geopolitica.info.

Education

Ms. Dall’Arche graduated summa cum laude in Political Science from the University of Roma Tre and won a full merit scholarship for an exchange programme at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She obtained her master’s degree in Non-proliferation and Terrorism Studies and a Certificate in Conflict Resolution at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), California. In 2014, she won the Michiel Brandt Memorial Prize for best MIIS paper on human trafficking.