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Non-proliferation meets non-partisanship
Embassy by Douglas Roche December 15, 2010 Hansard recorded the event in the House of Commons under “Routine Proceedings,” but there was nothing routine about it. For the first time in the history of Canada’s Parliament, both the House...
Bridging the Reality Gap
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff December 1, 2010 I've just returned from Hiroshima where Nobel Peace Laureates gathered for a three-day summit to renew their efforts to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons. After hearing testimonies of...
An Ottawa Process for Nukes?
Embassy by Alyn Ware November 10, 2010 In 1996, Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy invited 'like-minded States' to Ottawa to draft a treaty banning landmines- bypassing negotiations on a more limited landmines control regime that were bogged down in...
Nobel Peace Laureates’ Summit: Inspiration From Hiroshima
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff November 4, 2010 The 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will meet in Hiroshima, Japan, on November 12-14, and the Laureates, including President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama, are asking US President Barack...
The Human Capacity for Creativity and Destruction: How Will It All Play Out?
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff October 18, 2010 The natural world has value independent of the markets of man, and we ignore this fact at our peril. Corporations and states can no longer operate as if they are independent of the natural world....
Countdown to Zero: A compelling film with a critical message
Tikkun, and re-published in the Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger July 29, 2010 A few years ago, Lawrence Bender and Jeffrey Skoll set out to make a new documentary about nuclear weapons, a film which would act as a wake up...
Re-thinking Israeli Security
Huffington Post by Rhianna Tyson Kreger June 14, 2010 Jewish ingenuity helped create the weapon that is now the greatest threat to our survival. Let it also be Jewish brilliance, leadership, and morality that contribute towards the liberation of all humanity...
Cutting the Gordian Knot
Peace and Health by Xanthe Hall April 25, 2010 Before you all physically or mentally traipse off to New York – volcanic ash allowing – I’d like to say something. Nuclear weapons do have a purpose. What I want to share with you may seem...
Principles and Process
Arms Control Today by Henrik Salander April 2010 For anyone who attended the 2005 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, where the parties failed to agree on anything at all, the recent debacle at the Copenhagen climate change conference...
Will Canada go the non-proliferation distance?
Embassy by Douglas Roche, O.C. April 14, 2010 US President Barack Obama dramatized world attention on nuclear dangers during his extraordinary 47-nation Washington summit this week by warning that just an apple-sized container of plutonium could set off a...
United Nations
Parliamentary Actions for Nuclear Disarmament: Roundtable discussion
Monday October 24, 2011 Hosted by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations On October 24, 2011, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the Parliamentarian Network for Conflict Prevention (a project of the East-West...
Nuclear Weapons Convention or Framework of Agreements: Exploring Proposals for Nuclear Disarmament – Event Report by Rhianna K. Tyson
Forty diplomats and civil society experts gathered at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations to participate in a workshop titled “Nuclear Weapons Convention or Framework of Agreements: Exploring Proposals for Nuclear Disarmament,” organized as an...
Humanitarian Law Versus Nuclear Weapons – GSI Event Report
A stimulating panel, Humanitarian Law Versus Nuclear Weapons, took as its theme the international community’s reaffirmation earlier this year that law governing the conduct of warfare applies in the nuclear arena. The October 25 event at the UN was co-sponsored by the...
Link Nuclear Weapons Convention to Humanitarian Law, MPI Event Report
MPI Event Report October 18, 2010 (L-R): Ambassador Cabactulan, Senator Roche, Ambassador Strohal and Alyn Ware During the panel, "Routes to Elimination," on October 18, the President of the 2010 NPT Review Conference called on middle power states to...
GSI eNewsletter: December 16, 2009
A Message from the President MPI Activities - MPI and Swiss UN Permament Mission Host 74 Representatives from Government and Civil Society - MPI Chairman Gives Keynote Address at International NGO Conference PNND Activities - PNND at the United Nations - PNND Global...
MPI Statement on the September 24 Security Council Summit
When the UN Security Council convenes its summit meeting on September 24 with US President Barack Obama presiding, the Council has a unique opportunity to pronounce itself on one of most vital issues before the international community: nuclear non-proliferation and...
Jonathan Granoff Receives Armitage Award
Dear friends and supporters, It is my tremendous honor to invite you to a special event at the Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, where my friend and colleague, GSI President Jonathan Granoff, will receive the Arthur E. Armitage Distinguished Alumni Award on...
GSI eNewsletter: June 2009
Contents: A Message from the President GSI Activities - "Voices of Experience," UN Panel Event - Meeting with the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - Briefing at the UN: Human Development is National Security - Book Launch at the United Nations - CTBT Briefing and...
Millenium Development Goals Awards Ceremony at the United Nations
On March 17, 2009, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Dr. Kevin Cahill, a world reknown physician and humanitarian, received lifetime achievement awards at the Millennium Development Golas (MDGs) Awards Ceremony at the General Assembly Hall of the United...
Millennium Development Goals Awards Ceremony at the United Nations
On March 17, 2009, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Dr. Kevin Cahill, a world reknown physician and humanitarian, received lifetime achievement awards at the Millennium Development Golas (MDGs) Awards Ceremony at the General Assembly Hall of the United...
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