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GSI Presentation at Oslo Peace Center – Reflections and Policies for Tolerance and Peaceful co-Existence by Jonathan Granoff

This week the Oslo Peace Center is hosting and event to address ways to advance greater levels of tolerance. I am pleased to be a speaker in a session with Nobel Peace Laureates Presidents Willem deKlerk and Lech Walesa. Below is the presentation that will be...

World’s Parliament of Religions, Toronto

From November 1-7, 2018, The Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., a long-time adviser to the Global Security Institute, and GSI President Jonathan Granoff met with other leading faith and disarmament leaders at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto, attended...

‘Bahrain Visions Forum’ at UN

On September 27, 2018, the Kingdom of Bahrain and Global Security Institute hosted the ‘Bahrain Visions Forum: Shared Vision Towards a Successful, Sustainable Future’ at the United Nations in New York, on the side of the UN General Assembly 73rd...

Bahrain: President F.W. de Klerk Speech

TEXT: SPEECH BY FORMER PRESIDENT FW DE KLERKAT THE NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE LECTURESMANAMA, BAHRAIN 13 SEPTEMBER 2018 MULTILCULTURALISM AND GLOBAL POLITICAL CHALLENGES  Your Royal Highnesses, Fellow Nobel Peace Laureates, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen…One of the...

A Time For Serious Thinking by Jonathan Granoff

Dear Friends, This is a time in which serious thinking is needed. Spectacle is interesting entertainment, but only for a short while. It is insufficient for responsible governance of international security issues. The recent G7 Summit, which brought allies to...

GSI President on the ‘Real Leaders’ Top 100

We are proud to announce that GSI President Jonathan Granoff has been selected for the Top 100 Visionary Leaders by Real Leaders Magazine. In choosing its 100 Visionary Leaders the magazine stated: “We discovered a common characteristic too: Real leaders are not...

MLK Day: Gandhi and King

“Nothing so dramatically expresses the discordance between physical capacity and moral immaturity than a thermonuclear device.” Martin Luther King, Jr. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. succinctly described our current predicament posed by the threat to use nuclear...

President GSI Meets With Deputy Foreign Minister of Bahrain

GSI President Jonathan Granoff met today with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Bahrain. From the website of the Foreign Ministry: “The Assistant Foreign Minister, Abdullah bin Faisal bin Jabur Al-Dosari, received at his office in the Ministry’s General Court...

In Memoriam: Ambassador Jonathan Dean

On January 14, 2014, Ambassador Jonathan Dean died of natural causes in Mesa, Arizona. He was 89 years old. His wit, wisdom, friendship, guidance, and example of selfless public service will be missed. Ambassador Jonathan Dean had been an Advisor to the Global...

An Appeal for Our Future, from Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.

December 23, 2013 Dear friend, The Global Security Institute makes our voices for a safer world impact where it matters–decision makers in Washington, capitals around the world, and the United Nations. Your investment in its work will make a difference. My work...