Christelle Barakat is a researcher in public policy at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies and an incoming Schwarzman Scholar. She is a Lebanese Fulbright Foreign Student program graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Class of 2022), holding an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies with a concentration on International Peace Development. She is also an Emerging Expert with the Forum on the Arms Trade, an Atomic Anxiety in the New Nuclear Age Fellow, and an advisory board member with BASIC EVN. She holds a BA in Political Science and International Affairs (Class of 2020) with high distinction from the Lebanese American University where she was additionally part of the honors program, with three minors in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Gender Studies, and Legal Studies. Her areas of interest include conflict analysis and resolution, disarmament, migration and refugee studies, and women and gender studies, among others. Over the years, she was selected as a Youth Leader for a World Without Nuclear Weapons (first cohort), Leader to the Future, Leader for Tomorrow, and Youth Champion for Disarmament (first cohort) with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA).

Fadi Nicholas Nassar is a research fellow at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS). His research focuses on international humanitarian and relief interventions in fragile and conflict settings, popular uprisings and social movements, and Lebanese and Middle Eastern politics. He is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution at the Lebanese American University (LAU). Fadi holds a PhD from the War Studies Department at King’s College London. A graduate of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, he also received a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University.