Global Security Institute


Progressive Initiatives

May 9, 2009 Christie Brinkley, former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, MPI Chairman Henrik Salander and Hideo Hiraoka, MP, Japan, spoke at a special event during the 2009 NPT Preparatory Committee conference, chaired by GSI Senior Officer Rhianna Tyson. Watch...

Voices from Experience

May 7, 2009 GSI, in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, hosted a special panel event during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting, featuring UN Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas, High Representative...

Millennium Development Goals Awards Ceremony

  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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Funded by the Greenwich Forum on War and Peace, Ben Millstein explores four questions about our nuclear age: what’s the problem with today’s system for keeping nukes under control; what are the major nuclear threats today; how does the international...

GSI eNewsletter: October 30, 2008

Dear friends, The hopes of the world are focused on the US presidential election. It is probably the most important election in recent history. The collective challenges facing the world are daunting: the very health of the global commons – the oceans, rainforests and...

Point of Peace

    Video message of support for the UN MDG Awards & Humanitad Global Impact Forum from members of the Point of Peace Summit in Stavanger, Norway. Featuring: Jonathan Granoff – President Global Security Institute Kjell Magne Bondevik – Former...

Bombed by 67 Nukes

Aug 18 2008 Senator Abacca Anjain Madisson of Rongelap, Marshall Islands, describes how her country was struck by 67 nuclear weapons during Pacific Islands testing by the United States. The devastating consequences of this testing have lingered for generations among...

Commemorating Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 10, 2008   BSG Chairman Ambassador (Ret.) Thomas Graham, Jr. reminds an audience in commemoration of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan that strengthening the NPT should be of paramount importance if we want to prevent such destruction from occurring...

The People Vs. The Bomb

  Politicians, celebrities, diplomats, mayors, scientists, lawyers, experts and citizens from around the world address the Nuclear Non-Proliferation crisis at the United Nations in a one-hour TV special, screened on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 on CUNY TV in New...

GSI eNewsletter: July 4, 2008

Dear friends, July 4 reminds me that ‘miracles really do happen in the course of human events.’ Below are some positive reports, a bit short of the miraculous but valuable all the same. On June 9-10, in New Delhi, India, there was a small high-level...

GSI eNewsletter: May 30, 2008

Contents: 1. GSI Office Move 2. DPE Activities – India Celebrates 20 years of the Rajiv Gandhi Plan – Overcoming Nuclear Dangers Conference, Harvard University – GSI Board Member Christie Brinkley Receives Smart Cookie Award from Condé Nast –...

World Federation of United Nations Association

February, 2008 In the lead up to their Model UN Conference, WFUNA asks GSI President Jonathan Granoff and Senior Officer Rhianna Tyson what can lead governments to stay away from, or do away with, nuclear weapons? » Watch Jonathan Granoff’s...

World Wisdom Council

Feb 17, 2008   At the World Wisdom Council, GSI President Jonathan Granoff talks with  Audrey Kitagawa, former adviser to the UN High Representative for Child Soldiers.     Also at the Monterrey Forum, Jonathan talked about the principle of...

PM Gordon Brown and President Gorbachev Discuss a Wide Range of Issues

Report from GSI President Jonathan Granoff, an IPB Representative to the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit On January 28, 2008, President Mikhail Gorbachev and I were hosted to breakfast and a private meeting with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, at...