Natasha Barnes is the Education and Communications Officer at the Disarmament and Security Centre. She is a graduate student in the Political Science Programme in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has written her dissertation on the dynamics of nuclear disarmament, under the supervision of Dr Tanya Ogilvie-White. Natasha is involved in the Pacific Forum Centre for Strategic and International Studies Young Leaders Programme and has contributed to the Asia Pacific Handbook and Action Plan to Prevent WMD proliferation, which is currently being compiled by the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). She recently co-published an article in the Non-Proliferation Review and was the NGO Youth Adviser to the New Zealand delegation at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.