Alyson Bailes, former director of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute, whose earlier career began at EWI, where she was vice president for security and international Relations from 1996-1997, died on April 29, 2016.

A visionary with bold ideas, she worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for 33 years, both in London and as a diplomat in Hungary, West Germany, China, Norway and Belgium. She was British ambassador to Finland from 2000-2002, when it was still very uncommon for women to secure such a high position.

She was among the first to recognize the need to engage many more non-state actors as contributors to security building. Her book Business and Security: Public-Private Sector Relationships in a New Security Environment exemplifies this approach. It is still one of the landmark publications in the field.

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