Aug 27, 2019 | Newsletter
“The unleashing of the power of the atom bomb has changed everything except our mode of thinking, and thus we head toward unparalleled catastrophes.” Albert EinsteinThinking clearly and bringing morally grounded practical policies into action is necessary to avoid...
Jul 30, 2018 | GSI News, Iran, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
by Jonathan Granoff published in Newsweek. There are many reasons not to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House, and many reasons why Congressional Democrats and Republicans are panning the idea. Trump’s tweet lashing out at Iran hasn’t...
Jun 27, 2018 | Books, GSI News, Middle Powers Initiative, News and Updates, Newsletter
Tarja Cronberg holds two Ph.D. degrees, in technology and business. A Finnish Green League politician, she chaired her party from 2005 until 2009 and served as a member of the European Parliament from 2011 until 2014. She served as Head of the European...
Jun 27, 2018 | Books, Douglas Roche, GSI News, News and Updates, Newsletter
In a newly released book, Hope Not Fear: Building Peace in a Fractured World, The Honorable Douglas Roche, O.C., an Advisory Board Member of GSI, presents a sober analysis of the current existential threats facing humanity. At the same time he directs us to practical...
Jun 27, 2018 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Books, GSI News, News and Updates, Newsletter, Russia, U.S.
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. was involved in the negotiation of every international arms control and non-proliferation agreement from 1970 to 1997, including the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT Treaties), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START Treaties),...
Jun 27, 2018 | Books, Denuclearization, GSI News, News and Updates, Newsletter
Ambassador James Goodby, a founding member of GSI’s Nonpartisan Security Group (formerly Bipartisan Security Group), joined former Secretary of State George Shultz as editors of The War That Must Never Be Fought: Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence, a series of...
Jun 27, 2018 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Cold War, Denuclearization, Douglas Roche, GSI News, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, North Korea, U.S.
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...
Jun 12, 2018 | Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter
On 30 May 2018, the Mission of Bulgaria convened a high-level meeting, entitled “Sustaining Peace and Conflict Prevention through Multitrack Education and Initiatives for the Culture of Peace and SDGs,” in order to explore how both a culture of peace and...
Jun 2, 2018 | GSI News, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg was a U.S. military analyst, employed by the RAND Corporation, who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the...
Jun 1, 2018 | Disarmament, News and Updates, Newsletter, United Nations
On May 24, 2018, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released Securing our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament. May 24 was also Women’s International Day for Peace and Disarmament. PNND women leaders used the occasion to release an appeal Common security...
May 15, 2018 | Iran, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter, Op Eds, U.S., United Nations
By Jonathan Granoff Published in The Hill The Trump Administration has just walked away from the United States’ commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known in the American media as “the Iran Deal.” But it’s not an...
Oct 2, 2017 | China, Denuclearization, Disarmament, France, GSI Programs, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, North Korea, NPT, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
Presently, the entire world is hostage to a nuclear crisis expressed in the language of war and destruction by the leaders of North Korea and the United States We can look over the abyss and the reality of the consequence of the uses of nuclear weapons strikes...
Oct 2, 2017 | Newsletter
Dear Friends, Senator Ed Markey, a Co-President of a program of the Global Security Institute, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, with hundreds of legislative leaders in over 80 nations, has correctly identified the need to bring the...
Oct 2, 2017 | Newsletter
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is on the Board of Advisors of the the Global Security Institute. We take his advice very seriously. He warned us today that we are sliding toward a war that will kill us all. He proposes that the United Nations Security...
Oct 2, 2017 | Newsletter
Dear Friend, The Nuclear Football has been handed off to a new team. If its power is unleashed, unimaginable suffering follows as humanity ends. At this moment we do not know exactly what plays will be run. We do know that the voice and activism of the Global...
Oct 1, 2017 | Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Newsletter, North Korea, U.S.
1. Talk Nation: U.S. and North Korean Relations, featuring Jonathan Granoff 2. Octavian Report: Why North Korea is not the real nuclear danger
Sep 27, 2017 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, News and Updates, Newsletter, North Korea, Photo Galleries, United Nations
Civil society addresses the UN General Assembly on nuclear disarmament Sep 27, 2017 | Movement News | Global citizens have the means and power today to end the threat from nuclear weapons, according to civil society representatives speaking at...
Aug 29, 2017 | Events, News and Updates, Newsletter, Speeches & Presentations
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Jul 5, 2017 | Events, Newsletter
United Nations Correspondents Association’s press event on the prohibition treaty, featuring Jonathan Granoff, President of GSI; Bill Kidd, Co-President of PNND; Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator of PNND, and Robert Green, former commander of the British Royal Navy....
Apr 14, 2017 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Op Eds
Presently, neither leadership nor support in the pursuit of nuclear disarmament can be expected from the nuclear weapons states. They have not vigorously pursued the incremental steps for which there is enormous international support to help make us safer and...
Dec 8, 2015 | Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
From the Huffington Post The Measure of Our Humanity: Nobel Peace Laureates Promote Solutions to Refugee Crisis, Terrorism, Climate Change and Nuclear Annihilation Dear friends, Last month the Nobel Peace Laureates gathered for their fifteenth Summit and issued...
Sep 11, 2015 | Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, United Nations
September 2015 A Message from the President Dear friends, One of the most inspiring and unique inclusions in this eNewsletter is a a short report about the first International Day of Yoga, held at the United Nations, where I had the profound pleasure of...
Apr 9, 2015 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Rose Gottemoeller, United Nations
Inspiration and Illumination at the United Nations A preliminary report on April 9, 2015 The Global Security Institute is profoundly honored to have co-hosted with the Holy See a remarkably inspirational event at the United Nations on April 9, 2015. Titled...
Apr 3, 2015 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Events, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, NPT, Photo Galleries, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence
Events, reports, and analysis A Message From the President The necessity of human solidarity must not be trumped by the divisiveness of nuclear weapons. This was part of the historic message expressing the ideas of His Holiness Pope Francis shared at the recent...
Dec 8, 2014 | Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Video Blog
Emphasizing the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons continues to gain momentum as a viable approach to advancing nuclear disarmament. As part of this momentum, the Austrian government held the Third International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of...
Nov 5, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, United Nations
Events, reports, and analysis Mahatma Gandhi at the United Nations photo credit: Michael Greene A Message from the President On September 26, 2014, the United Nations commemorated the inaugural International Day for the Total...
