On 14 April 2004 Dr Michael Krepon, Founding President of the Henry L. Stimson Centre in Washington DC gave a talk on the "Peace Process in South Asia: Reality or Illusion?"
The Henry L. Stimson Centre, founded in 1989, is a non-profit, non-partisan, institution specialising in threat reduction and international security issues where policy, technology and politics intersect. Earlier, Dr. Krepon worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Carter Administration, and the U.S. House of Representatives, assisting Congressman Norm Dicks.
Dr. Krepon's areas of interest are South Asia and the Kashmir dispute, nuclear risk reduction, strategic arms control, missile defences, and the utilisation of confidence-building measures to alleviate tensions and promote reconciliation. His most recent books are “Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defence, and the Nuclear Future” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), and “Space Assurance or Space Dominance? The Case Against Weaponising Space” (Henry L. Stimson Centre, 2003). Dr. Krepon travels regularly to India, Pakistan, China, Japan, and Russia.
