User:Nick.robson

Nick Robson, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Nick has a rich background in the non-governmental (NGO) sector. He received his MA in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford. he has consulted for the British Red Cross in Disaster Management and is the founder of the Cayman Institute, a think tank doing policy research in areas such as global warming and climate change, energy security and economic sustainability for small island states. Nick also has a background in security and law enforcement.

His geographical areas of interest are Central and South Asia and the Middle East as well as Small Island Developing States. He is the Proframme Manager for the South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI) based in London whose aims are to make a leading contribution to regional and international academic and policy-orientated research discourses about South Asian security. SASSI’s remit goes beyond nuclear stability to include the wider issues of chemical and biological weapons, conventional force balance, civil-military relations, social and political stability, religious extremism and the security issues. In addition, the institute hopes to increase its research on issues such as energy politics in the South and South West Asian region presented by climate change, peak oil, energy security and development of alternative sources of energy including development of nuclear industry.