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May 9, 2009 | Video Blog
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...
May 8, 2009 | Video Blog
May 8, 2009 Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament held a roundtable discussion at the United Nations during the Preparatory Committee meeting of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was unable to attend, but sent...
May 7, 2009 | Video Blog
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...
Mar 25, 2009 | Disarmament and Peace Education, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, 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...
Mar 17, 2009 | Video Blog
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...
Mar 12, 2009 | Events, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, 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...
Jan 28, 2009 | Ambassador Henrik Salander, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Congratulations to new MPI Chairman Ambassador Henrik Salander We are honored to welcome Ambassador Henrik Salander as the new Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative. Ambassador Salander is an accomplished diplomat and an effective disarmament advocate, and will be...
Jan 25, 2009 | Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter
GSI Radio Announcement This Saturday, January 17, 2009 from 12-1 PM EST, GSI President Jonathan Granoff once again joins Deepak Chopra on his weekly radio program. Poet Laureate Maya Angelou and New Realities television host Alan Steinfeld will also join the show....
Jan 1, 2009 | Video Blog
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...
Oct 30, 2008 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Henrik Salander, Bipartisan Security Group, Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Michael Douglas, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
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...
Oct 7, 2008 | Video Blog
MPI Chairman Douglas Roche discusses his new book, Creative Dissent, a memoir.
Sep 25, 2008 | Disarmament, Global Security Institute, India, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, United Nations
Dear friends, As the Global Security Institute prepares for a new season of activities to advance nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, we would like to pause and share a few words in memory of Dr. Alan Phillips. Dr. Phillips was an outstanding citizen, physician...
Sep 8, 2008 | Video Blog
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...
Aug 25, 2008 | Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, India, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, NPT, U.S.
Below is the text of an open letter to the Foreign Ministers of the Nuclear Suppliers Group regarding the role of the NSG in the pending nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India. We urge all of our concerned friends and...
Aug 18, 2008 | Video Blog
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...
Aug 10, 2008 | Video Blog
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...
Aug 1, 2008 | Video Blog
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...
Jul 28, 2008 | Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, India, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament, U.S., U.S. Congress
Contents What’s Next for India’s Nuclear Trade Future: Press Briefing on Key Issues before the IAEA, NSG and US Congress MPI Chairman Calls on World Leaders to Stop US/India Trade Deal PNND Notes, 2008 edition, now available Video from the...
Jul 4, 2008 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Canada, Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, India, Iran, Japan, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Robert Grey
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...
Jun 10, 2008 | Video Blog
June 9-10, 2008 To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rajiv Gandhi plan for nuclear abolition, a conference was held in New Delhi, sponsored by two of India’s most prestigious bodies, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and the Indian Council...
May 25, 2008 | Bipartisan Security Group, Canada, Christie Brinkley, Global Security Institute, India, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, NPT, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, U.S.
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 –...
Mar 28, 2008 | Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, NPT
The Middle Powers Initiative released a summary report of the recent meeting of the Article VI Forum, held at the Dublin Castle in Dublin, Ireland, March 28-29, 2008. The Dublin consultation was the fifth meeting of the Article VI Forum, a unique project intended to...
Mar 9, 2008 | Global Security Institute, Iran, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Speeches & Presentations
by Jonathan Granoff President, Global Security Institute Photo courtesy of Michael Collopy The Institute for Political and International Studies of the Foreign Ministry of Iran held a high level conference in Tehran on March 9, 2008 titled “International...
Feb 28, 2008 | Video Blog
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...
Feb 17, 2008 | Video Blog
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...
Jan 25, 2008 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Douglas Roche, Global Terrorism, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations Security Council
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...