# Pam Solo

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'''Pam Solo''' (born 1946) is an arms control analyst, and Founder and President of the Civil Society Institute.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/who.cfm |title=Who We Are - Civil Society Institute |access-date=2010-04-20 |archive-date=2010-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100425053451/http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/who.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Life==
She co-founded the Rocky Flats campaign.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rockyflatscoldwarmuseum.org/Newsletters/RFMuseum%20Newsletter.April1.May.07.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-04-20 |archive-date=2011-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727222412/http://rockyflatscoldwarmuseum.org/Newsletters/RFMuseum%20Newsletter.April1.May.07.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 1978 she was co-director the national Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force. 
She was one of the founders and leaders of the national [Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign](/source/Peace_Action).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TwlCmGek8wkC&dq=Pam+Solo+freeze+voter&pg=PA191 ''Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West''], Len Ackland, UNM Press, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-8263-2798-7}}</ref>  She signed a letter in support of eight [Czechoslovak](/source/Czechoslovakia) protestors who were arrested in 1989.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1989/apr/13/crackdown-in-prague/|title = Crackdown in Prague &#124; by Neal Ascherson &#124; the New York Review of Books|last1 = Stone|first1 = I. F.|last2 = Jackson|first2 = A. Winton|last3 = Kelly|first3 = Petra|last4 = Helvazi|first4 = Nevzat|last5 = Faber|first5 = Mient Jan|last6 = Nikolic|first6 = Milan|last7 = Licht|first7 = Sonia|last8 = Mastnak|first8 = Tomas|last9 = Bakse|first9 = Ingrid|last10 = Rumjancev|first10 = Oleg|last11 = Martynjuk|first11 = Vlodimir|last12 = Kusin|first12 = V. A.|last13 = Grishin|first13 = Alexei|last14 = Niemczyk|first14 = Piotr|last15 = Czaputowicz|first15 = Jacek|last16 = Surowiec|first16 = Krystyna|last17 = Rupetal|first17 = Aneta|last18 = Solt|first18 = Ottilia|last19 = Miszlivetz|first19 = Ferenc|last20 = Szelenyi|first20 = Zsuzsa|last21 = Demszky|first21 = Gabor|last22 = Weisshuhn|first22 = Reinhard|last23 = Poppe|first23 = Ulrike|last24 = Boettger|first24 = Martin|last25 = Bohley|first25 = Barbel|last26 = Wallis|first26 = Jim|last27 = Solo|first27 = Pam|last28 = McReynolds|first28 = David|last29 = Jr|first29 = William Sloane Coffin|last30 = Ellsberg|first30 = Daniel|display-authors = 1}}</ref>

She was the campaign director for [Pat Schroeder](/source/Pat_Schroeder) and managed Schroeder's Presidential exploratory campaign.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110725001552/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1997-04-20/features/9705030143_1_civil-society-pam-solo-windmills "Civil Warrior"] ''Sun Sentinel'', Paul Langner, April 20, 1997</ref>  She worked for the Armed Services Committee staff.

She was active in the Nuclear Weapons Freeze movement, and helped to found ''Freeze Voter''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG151-175/DG156FreezeV.html|title = Freeze Voter Records (DG 156), Swarthmore College Peace Collection}}</ref>
In 1992, she founded the Civil Society Institute.

==Awards==
*1989 [MacArthur Fellows Program](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program)<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8131832.html "SOLO SUCCESS PAM SOLO'S QUIET WORK FOR PEACE EARNS A MACARTHUR FOUNDATION GRANT"], ''The Boston Globe'', August 3, 1989, Susan Trausch</ref>

==Works==
* ''From Protest to Policy: Beyond the Freeze to Common Security'', Ballinger, 1988, {{ISBN|978-0-88730-112-4}}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQf9Y2HdmQC&q=Pam+Solo ''The Promise and Politics of Stem Cell Research''], Authors Pam Solo, Gail Pressberg, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-275-99038-1}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=yqznq6LkkugC&dq=Pam+Solo&pg=PA233 "A Nation of Learners"], ''Letters to the next president: what we can do about the real crisis in public education'', Editor Carl D. Glickman, Teachers College Press, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-8077-4427-7}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=7dERSWht5C8C&dq=Pam+Solo&pg=PA81 "Beyond Theory: Civil Society in Action"], ''Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America'', Editor E. J. Dionne, Brookings Institution Press, 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-8157-1867-3}}

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