About ACA

ACA delivers a lot on a modest budget, we make every individual donation count toward the bottom line: building support and action for a safer world. That is why the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recognized the Arms Control Association as one of the most "creative and effective" nonprofit organizations in the world.

With a staff under 10 and an annual budget under $1 million, over the past two years ACA has:

Collection of Arms Trade News, a bi-weekly compilation of news produced by ACA on behalf of the Arms Transfers Working Group.

ACA’s Xiaodon Liang has cross-checked the list of 28 countries for which Congress was notified of foreign military sales in 2010 against the State Department’s own human rights reports. Reading these reports is, at times, more an art than science, but the overall picture is not pretty. More than a third (11) of the states failed to guarantee freedom of speech, association, and assembly, as well as a free press. Torture, arbitrary arrest, and discrimination remained a problem in many of these same states.

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Jeff Abramson

Natalie Goldring

Adam Isacson

Anne-Charlotte Merrell Wetterwik

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The Arms Transfers Working Group (ATWG) is an alliance of arms control, development, human rights and academic organizations and affiliated individuals. ATWG serves as an information clearinghouse, forum and point of contact for strengthening efforts to address the economic, humanitarian and security implications of legal, illicit, and illegal arms transfers. ATWG participants focus on a wide range of concerns related to small arms and light weapons, major conventional weapons systems, and relevant dual-use technologies.

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Alfred Nurja joined ACA in September 2010 as a New Voices Fellow. Alfred graduated from the Fletcher School in Boston with an LL.M. degree in International Law earlier that year. Prior to arriving at Fletcher, Alfred worked for the U.S. Ambassador to Albania as assistant on domestic legal and political affairs, and as an interpreter. His prior experience also includes a stint as an analyst with the Albanian Organized Crime Intelligence Department as well as the U.S. Army. Alfred has a degree in Public Law from Tirana University.