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Twenty Years of CTBT: Time for India to Re-engage?

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Twenty Years of CTBT: Time for India to Re-engage?
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<strong>JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, ORGANISATION AND DISARMAMENT &amp; THE DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TO INDIA</strong> a seminar on <strong>Twenty Years of CTBT: Time for India to Re-engage?</strong> Speakers <strong>Bruno Hanses Happymon Jacob</strong> <strong>on Friday, 26thFebruary 2016</strong> <strong>About the Speakers</strong> Bruno Hanses has long experience in European foreign and security policy. He joined the EU Council Secretariat in 1991, serving initially in the Agriculture Department and from 1994 in foreign and security policy. He held several positions related to the EU's Africa policy, including Political Adviser to the EU Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region. He then served in the Private Office of the EU Council's Secretary General, Jürgen Trumpf, as Head of Planning and Operations for EU civilian missions under ESDP. More recently he was Head of Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Human Security in the EU Delegation in Geneva. Since September 2011, Bruno Hanses has been Head of the Political Section in the EU Delegation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dr. Happymon Jacob is Associate Professor of Disarmament Studies at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University where he teaches courses on Nuclear Disarmament, and National Security &amp; International Relations. Jacob is a regular columnist with the Srinagar-based Greater Kashmir daily and a frequent Op-Ed Contributor to The Hindu, India's leading English language daily. He has been organizing and/or participating in the three most influential Indian-Pakistan track-two dialogues: Chaophraya Dialogue, Pugwash India-Pakistan Dialogue and, the Ottawa India-Pakistan Dialogue.