Valerie Yankey-Wayne is currently a PhD student at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. Her thesis investigates, "approaches to National Security from an African Perspective". She completed her MPhil in IR at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and BA in History at University of Ghana. She was a researcher and policy analyst at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Geneva from 2002 to 2006. She has also consulted on a number of projects by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), OXFAM Great Britain Regional programme for West Africa and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA). Through IANSA and UNIDIR, she has worked closely with many governmental experts and relevant multilateral and regional organisations on arms control and related international security issues.

Research interests: The nexus between armed groups, narcotics trafficking, weapons proliferation, money laundering and organized crime networks.

Email: vayankey [at] ucalgary [dot] ca

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• 1. Yankey-Wayne, V. et al., "Widening our understanding of the brokering issue" in Developing a mechanism to prevent the illicit brokering in small arms: Scope and Implications, Geneva; United Nations, 2007.
• 2. Kytomaki, E, and Yankey-Wayne, V. (2006) Five Years of Implementing the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons: Regional Analysis of National Reports, Geneva; United Nations.
• 3. Kytomaki, E, and Yankey-Wayne, V. (2004) Implementing the United Nations Programme of action on small arms and light weapons: analysis of the reports submitted by states in 2003, Geneva; United Nations.

Articles

• 1. Yankey-Wayne, V. (2005), "The human dimension of the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms: the key role of Africa" in Disarmament Forum, Taking Action on Small Arms, Geneva; United Nations.
• 2. Yankey, V. (2002) "One Year after the UN Conference on Small Arms", Focus Newsletter 2002, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa.

Reports

• 1. Contributor to REFUGEES, Volume 2, No. 139 - 2005 (UNHCR quarterly magazine), How Secure Do You Feel? United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva.
• 2. Contributor to The Role of Regional Organisations in the Stemming of illicit Trade in Small Arms, Findings of a specialist Seminar, January 2004, Geneva Forum. Geneva.
• 3. Contributor to Implementing the programme of action: Action by States and Civil Society, 2003, Biting the Bullet, London.