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Margarita Sevcik

Deputy Director, Education Program

Activities

Margarita Sevcik is Deputy Director of the Education Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute for International Studies.

Areas of Research

• Nonproliferation education and training
• WMD Nonproliferation in Eurasia
• Nuclear and radiological security

Background

Margarita Sevcik joined CNS in 1998. In 1999-2001, she worked as the Office Manager at the CNS Representative Office in Almaty, Kazakhstan. In 2001, she returned to Monterey and since that time she managed the CNS nonproliferation intensive training program called the Visiting Fellows Program. In 2011, she assumed the position of the Deputy Director of the CNS Education Program. In addition to the Visiting Fellows Program, she is responsible for various nonproliferation education and outreach activities carried out by CNS in Eurasia and providing assistance to universities in this region in teaching nonproliferation courses.

She is the editor of the electronic newsletter CNS Brief which CNS produces for its programs' alumni and colleagues across the globe.

Her research interests include problems of radiological security in Central Asia, and other general issues related to nuclear security and nonproliferation.

Education

• Kyrgyz State University (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), 1993
• MA in Communications and Mass Media, Southwest Missouri State University (Springfield, MO), 1998

Bibliography

• Sweeping Up Dirty Bombs: A Shift from Normative to Pro-Active Measures
  Margarita Sevcik, Bill Richardson, Charles Streeper, Public Interest Report, Fall 2011, Federation of American Scientists.
• Uranium Tailings in Central Asia: The Case of the Kyrgyz Republic
  Margarita Sevcik and Paula Humphrey, Nuclear Threat Initiative: Issues and Analysis, 16 October 2009.
• Uranium Tailings in Kyrgyzstan: Catalyst for Cooperation and Confidence-Building?
  The Nonproliferation Review (Spring 2003), pp 147-154.
• Kazakhstan's Proposal to Initiate Commercial Imports of Radioactive Waste
  Nuclear Threat Initiative: Issues and Analysis, 27 January 2003.
• Problema vvoza radioaktivnykh otkhodov v Kazakhstan: vzglyad so storony
  Problemy Nerasprostraneniya, (Almaty: 2002, No. 1), pp. 23-28.