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).