Gugu Dube
Researcher, Automated Decision Research team for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
twitter: @gugudube
email: gugudube [at] gmail [dot] com
phone: +27 79 610 8739
Researcher, Automated Decision Research team for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
twitter: @gugudube
email: gugudube [at] gmail [dot] com
phone: +27 79 610 8739
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) | Africa | small arms and light weapons (SALW) | landmines and cluster munitions | killer robots
Gugu Dube joined the Automated Decision Research team for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots as a Researcher in 2021. From April 2019 to mid-2021, she was a Researcher in the Transnational Threats and International Crime Programme in Pretoria for the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). She was also a researcher for Southern Africa for ENACT (Enhancing Africa’s response to transnational organised crime). She worked for the ISS from 2007 to 2014, researching arms management and garnering African states’ support for the Arms Trade Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. She was a consultant to the 2013 UN Group of Governmental Experts for the UN Register of Conventional Arms.
Dube has a BA Honours degree in international relations from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and is pursuing her MPhil Degree in Development Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Recent publications:
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Gugu Dube joined the Automated Decision Research team for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots as a Researcher in 2021. From April 2019 to mid-2021, she was a Researcher in the Transnational Threats and International Crime Programme in Pretoria for the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). She was also a researcher for Southern Africa for ENACT (Enhancing Africa’s response to transnational organised crime). She worked for the ISS from 2007 to 2014, researching arms management and garnering African states’ support for the Arms Trade Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. She was a consultant to the 2013 UN Group of Governmental Experts for the UN Register of Conventional Arms.
Dube has a BA Honours degree in international relations from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and is pursuing her MPhil Degree in Development Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Recent publications:
- "African states and The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation," Institute for Security Studies, June 30, 2021.*
- "South Africa should end its trade and use of torture equipment," ISS Today, July 28, 2020.
- "The trade in tools of torture: a South African case study," Institute for Security Studies, June 19, 2020.*
- "Is Africa ready for weapons that call their own shots?" ISS Today, August 29, 2019.
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