Ruth Rohde
Researcher and Project Coordinator, Shadow World Investigations UK || Program Manager, Arms Trade Corruption Tracker
email: ruth [at] shadowworldinvestigations [dot] org
@ruth4peace
Researcher and Project Coordinator, Shadow World Investigations UK || Program Manager, Arms Trade Corruption Tracker
email: ruth [at] shadowworldinvestigations [dot] org
@ruth4peace
corruption | Europe
Ruth Rohde is a researcher and project coordinator at Shadow World Investigations UK (SWI). In her role, she is working primarily on investigating, analyzing and campaigning against militarism and a harmful international arms trade. Rohde’s focus in recent years has been on British and German arms exports, particularly their impact in Yemen and Palestine. She is also the program manager of the Arms Trade Corruption Tracker, a project she co-founded in 2020 that maintains an online database of cases of corruption in the arms trade.
Rohde holds an M.A. in International History and Politics from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her M.A. thesis dealt with unarmed civilian intervention in conflict. Over several years, she supported a variety of campaigns, for example, to hold arms companies legally accountable for illegal small arms exports, international nuclear disarmament, and advocacy for a revised and restrictive German arms export control law.
Ruth Rohde is a researcher and project coordinator at Shadow World Investigations UK (SWI). In her role, she is working primarily on investigating, analyzing and campaigning against militarism and a harmful international arms trade. Rohde’s focus in recent years has been on British and German arms exports, particularly their impact in Yemen and Palestine. She is also the program manager of the Arms Trade Corruption Tracker, a project she co-founded in 2020 that maintains an online database of cases of corruption in the arms trade.
Rohde holds an M.A. in International History and Politics from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her M.A. thesis dealt with unarmed civilian intervention in conflict. Over several years, she supported a variety of campaigns, for example, to hold arms companies legally accountable for illegal small arms exports, international nuclear disarmament, and advocacy for a revised and restrictive German arms export control law.
Recent publications
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- "The long read: Britain's undeclared war on Yemen," New Internationalist, July/August 2025. *
- "Germany supplied fighting vehicle parts and other arms to Israel throughout 2024," Shadow World Investigations, April 23, 2025.
- "Raytheon’s Dirty Business in Qatar (Sham Contracts),"Arms Trade Corruption Tracker, November 26, 2024.
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