Barcelona Centre for International Affairs – CIDOB

CIDOB (Spain)

CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) is an international affairs research centre that, through excellence and relevance, seeks to analyse the global issues that affect political, social and governance dynamics, from the international to the local. As a recognised independent civil society born institution with a long history.

CIDOB pursues excellence and rigour in its analysis, publications and projects. It aims to be a useful tool for society, to ensure open access to knowledge and to promote the study of the international issues that affect citizens’ daily lives.

CIDOB’s Global geopolitics and security strategic line focuses on analysis and foresight of cooperation and conflict dynamics, as well as the actors and institutions with global reach. It focuses on the intersection between regional contexts and global dynamics to analyse transnational drivers of change and global (re)ordering processes.

Contact information

CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

Elisabets 12 – 08001 Barcelona – Spain

+34933026495

ccreixams@cidob.org

 

POINT OF CONTACT

Agnieszka Nimark an355@cornell.edu

Clara Créixams ccreixams@cidob.org

The team

 

Contacts Resume Speciality
Dr Agnieszka Nimark an355@cornell.edu

She has been affiliated with CIDOB since 2009. She is an Associate Senior Researcher with the Global Geopolitics and Security program (non-resident). She is currently based in the United States.

In 2013-2016 she represented CIDOB in the largest EU funded FP7 consortium research project called EDEN (End-user driven Demo for cbrNe) – Toolbox of toolboxes in preparedness, crisis response and recovery phases for the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear explosive events. She contributed a chapter to the book: Ethics and Law for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear & Explosive Crises, Springer 2019.

Since 2014 she has been based at Cornell University as a long-term Visiting Scholar at the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Her research focuses on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation legal order and nuclear disarmament movements. In 2014-2017 she collaborated with the Reppy Institute on the research project on A Stable Transition to a New Nuclear Order . Since 2017, she has been following closely and writing about the negotiations, adoption, and entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (E.g. book chapter on The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime at 50: Midlife Crisis and its Consequences, Routledge, 2023).

In June 2024 she launched together with professor Rebecca Slayton (the director of the Reppy Institute) a Working Group on Nuclear Disarmament Education. This new initiative includes scholars from both European and American research institutes, civil society, representatives of the communities affected by nuclear mining and testing and the United Nations. A long-term goal of the initiative is to establish a global Network on Nuclear Disarmament Education that would allow various stakeholders to share educational resources and create a mapping and information platform for a variety of educational initiatives.

    • UN collective security and peacekeeping system, the role of regional actors in conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict situations, and the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime