A “Dual Use” Approach to Development and Security in Central America

Primary Issues: 

Trade

Development-Foreign Assistance

Nuclear Weapons

Arms Control-Disarmament

International Institutions

Peace-Conflict Resolution-Reconstruction

Advocacy Practices: 

None

The Connect U.S. Fund is seeking an Executive Director committed to our vision of responsible U.S. global engagement and the belief that the whole of NGO advocacy in support of this goal must be greater than the sum of its parts.

The current Executive Director, Heather Hamilton, is leaving DC to fulfill her dream of sailing around the world. We expect to fill this position by mid-October.

In 2010 for the first time, the Secretaries of Defense and State and the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have all expressed support for a unified national security budget (USB).

On Wednesday, July 28, we hosted a meeting between Rosa Brooks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law and International Humanitarian Policy and representatives from advocacy organizations, think tanks and academia.  This new office and position in DoD, announced May 28, 2010, will consolidate most existing Office of the Secretary of Defense activities relating to human rights, international humanitarian policy, democratic accountability, development and rule of law, and will work with all DoD components and interagency partners to identify new initiatives in these a

A comprehensive climate and energy bill will not be voted on this year. That's disappointing, to say the least.

On July 23, the Connect U.S. Fund and the Prague Project co-sponsored the Washington DC premier of the film Countdown to Zero.

As published in The Hill

By Heather B. Hamilton - 07/15/10 06:02 PM ET

As the Senate begins debate on the U.S.-Russia New START arms-reduction treaty, we must not lose sight of a glaring problem in our national security: the impact that the U.S. failure to join major multilateral treaties has on our capacity to exercise global leadership. This failure threatens to make us, in a sad parody of Madeleine Albright's famous phrase, the "dispensable nation."

On July 12, 2010, over 150 people in the Connect U.S. Fund community came together for the annual community-wide meeting.

On June 21, the Connect U.S. Fund convened a policy dialogue on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).  More than 25 participants from the U.S.