Matthew Breay Bolton
Co-director, International Disarmament Institute (website)
twitter: @politicalmines     web: matthewbreaybolton.com
email: mbolton [at] pace [dot] edu 
phone: (212) 346-1828 

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landmines and cluster munitions | killer robots | Arms Trade Treaty | CCW | harm to civilians | corruption

Matthew Bolton is professor of political science at Pace University in New York City. He is an expert on global peace and security policy, focusing on multilateral disarmament and arms control policymaking processes. He has been an active participant in global campaigns on landmines, cluster munitions, killer robots and the arms trade. Since 2014, Bolton has worked on the UN and New York City advocacy of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Bolton has published five books, including Political Minefields (I.B. Tauris, 2020) and Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations (Palgrave Pivot, 2020). He has a PhD in Government and Master's in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. He is currently enrolled in a Master’s in Environmental Studies at SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
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​Recent Publications:

• "First Committee Monitor," vol 21. no.5, Reaching Critical Will, November 4, 2023.
• ​"First Committee Monitor," vol 21. no.2, Reaching Critical Will, October 7, 2023.
• "Protecting the innocent, the land, and the body: traditional sources of restraint on landmine use," Humanitarian law & Policy, March 23, 2023. *
• "First Committee Monitor: Volume 19, No. 5," Reaching Critical Will, November 5, 2021.*
• "First Committee Monitor," Volume 19, No. 4, Reaching Critical Will, October 22, 2021.*
• "First Committee Monitor," Volume 19, No. 3, Reaching Critical Will, October 16, 2021.*
• "First Committee Monitor," Volume 19, No. 2, Reaching Critical Will, October 9, 2021.*
• "First Committee Briefing Book 2021," Reaching Critical Will, September 2021.*
• "Addressing The Threat Of Autonomous Weapons," Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, January 2021.*
• "Youth and Disarmament Education," First Committee Monitor, vol. 18, no. 3, Reaching Critical Will, October 25, 2020.
• "Youth and Disarmament Education," First Committee Monitor, vol. 18, no. 2, Reaching Critical Will, October 18, 2020.
• "New Book Shows Catastrophic Folly of Automating Warfare," International Committee for Robot Arms Control, September 20, 2020.
• "Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament," Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.*
• "Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations," Palgrave Pivot, 2020.
• "Political Minefields: The Struggle against Automated Killing," I.B. Taurus, 2020.
• “Local Peacebuilding in East Africa: The Role of Customary Norms and Institutions in Addressing Pastoralist Conflict in Kenya and Uganda,” Locally Led Peacebuilding: Global Case Studies (ed. Stacey Connaughton and Jessica Berns), September 26, 2019.
• "Using the Arms Trade Treaty to Address Pastoralist Conflict and Wildlife Crime in Kenya’s Marginalized Regions," May 2018.
• "The humanitarian impact of drones" (editor), Reaching Critical Will, Oct 2017.​

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