Global Security Institute
Oct 4, 2013 | Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Russia, U.S.
With over a 100, 000 deaths and 2.5 million deaths, the Syrian civil war has shaken the Middle East and horrified the rest of the world. It has raised a lot of questions about the ethical and legal justification for a humanitarian intervention, the necessity to...
Sep 27, 2013 | Video Blog
September 27, 2013 More than 100 senior government officials gathered at the United Nations for a conference seeking the entry-into-force of the CTBT. GSI President Jonathan Granoff had the privilege of delivering a statement to the conference on behalf of all civil...
Sep 26, 2013 | Biothreats, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates
Paul Walker, International Program Director for Global Green, the US branch of Green Cross, was today honored as one of the three recipients for 2013 of the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes referred to as the ‘Alternative Nobel Peace Prize’. GSI and PNND...
Sep 13, 2013 | Biothreats, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations, Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2013/09/12/its-time-make-middle-east-wmd-free Eliminating the chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria through international cooperation and bringing Syria into full compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention would be a public good for...
Sep 3, 2013 | Disarmament and Peace Education, Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff
On September 3, 2013, Green Cross International hosted the seventh meeting of its “Earth Dialogue” series, which were founded by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and former UN Under-Secretary-General Maurice Strong in 2002, in Lyon, France. The...
Jun 24, 2013 | Global Security Institute, GSI News, Jonathan Granoff
Dr. James Martin, one of the world’s most insightful, visionary, influential intellectuals, died on June 24, 2013 at the age of 79. Dr. Martin was an esteemed and active member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Security Institute. He wrote over 100 books...
Apr 9, 2013 | 9-11, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Nuclear Proliferation, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Policy Briefs and Reports
April 9, 2013– Government diplomats, UN officials, disarmament researchers, policy analysts, academics and representatives of non-governmental organizations attended the launch on April 9 of Moving Beyond Nuclear Deterrence to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World, the...
Feb 28, 2013 | Events, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, United Nations
February 22-23, 2013 Creating the Conditions and Building the Framework for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World was the title of the Middle Power Initiative’s Berlin Framework Forum, a new initiative designed to help implement the decisions of the 2010 NPT Review...
Jan 18, 2013 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Douglas Roche, Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative
I myself have no arms to hug you, but a heart as big as the open space of Kazakhstan ready to embrace the world for peace and nuclear disarmament. Karipbek Kuyukov, Honorary ATOM Project Ambassador The ATOM Project, an exciting new initiative to build global support...
Jan 18, 2013 | China, Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, France, GSI News, India, Israel, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations, Weapons of Mass Destruction
“While we sleep, death is awake. Death keeps watch from the warehouses that store more than 23,000 nuclear warheads, like 23,000 eyes open and waiting for a moment of carelessness.” – Former President of Costa Rica, Nobel Laureate, and...
Oct 21, 2012 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Events, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, United Nations
Nearly 1000 parliamentarians from 150 parliaments (including most of those from nuclear weapons-possessing countries) will gather in Quebec City for the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly from October 21-26th 2012. PNND and IPU will use the occasion to...
Aug 15, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Events, Global Security Institute, Iran, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, NPT, Rose Gottemoeller, U.S.
Law, US Security and Nuclear Weapons: The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty and Beyond Ambassador Rose Gottemoeller Ambassador Thomas Graham On July 20, 2012, a dynamic and informative teleconference was convened by the International Law Section of the American Bar...
Aug 3, 2012 | Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Speeches & Presentations
The American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, through its Government Law Committee chaired by Jill Mariani, and in partnership with Thomson Reuters, presented a podcast series on Disaster Preparedness and Response that aired...
Aug 3, 2012 | Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Speeches & Presentations
Presentation by Jonathan Granoff, President Global Security Institute delivered to the Halki Summit on “Global Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability: A Conversation on Environment, Ethics, and Innovation” June 18-20, 2012 Istanbul, Turkey...
Aug 3, 2012 | Denuclearization, Global Security Institute, GSI News, Senator Alan Cranston
The Global Security Institute was founded in October of 1999 by Senator Alan Cranston (1914-2000) to continue and institutionalize a lifetime of dedicated work toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Following Senator Cranston’s passing, his son, Kim Cranston, was...
Aug 3, 2012 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Douglas Roche, Events, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT
August 3, 2012: The former Mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, has been appointed Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative (MPI), David Krieger, Chairman of MPI’s Executive Committee, announced today. He hailed Akiba, one of the world’s foremost...
Aug 3, 2012 | Denuclearization, Events, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT
The Global Security Institute, the Middle Powers Initiative and the network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament were actively engaged in the first Preparatory Committee conference of States parties to the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
Aug 1, 2012 | Video Blog
MiND TV interviews Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute, on the possibilities of peace within individuals as well as within governments and between cultures. MiND TV owns and operates channel 35 in the Philadelphia-South Jersey region,...
Jul 26, 2012 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Visions Can Be Fulfilled 1. A Message from the President 2. DPE Activities – GSI hosts Ban Ki-moon on UN Day – Promoting the SG’s Five Point Proposal – Advancing International Humanitarian Law – Launching Nuclear Abolition Forum – A...
Jul 26, 2012 | Bipartisan Security Group, Disarmament and Peace Education, DPE, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, India, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Message from the President MPI Activities – New Brief: “A Global Law to Ban Nuclear Weapons” – Ottawa Seminar – World Capital Tour – InterAction Council – Swiss Seminar on Irreversibility – Geneva Consultation –...
Jul 26, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Russia, U.S.
See below for two new pieces on START– the new treaty between the US and Russia which aims to reduce each country’s arsenal to no more than 1,550 deployed warheads– by GSI leadership. Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.’s letter to the editor on...
Jul 26, 2012 | Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nuclear Proliferation
The Chatauqua Institution offers an annual retreat in western New York State where the human spirit is renewed, minds stimulated, faith restored and the arts valued. This year, an entire week will be devoted to discussions of nuclear...
Jul 26, 2012 | Disarmament, Global Security Institute, GSI News, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
PNND Members in leadership positions worldwide The Global Security Institute and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament extend their most heartfelt congratulations to PNND Friend Laura Chinchilla for her successful election to the Presidency of...
Jul 26, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, NPT
Dr. Deepak Chopra, one of the world’s most influential advocates of well being and peace, is featuring GSI President Jonathan Granoff on a series of interviews for his video blog, Intent, and Sirius Radio show. » Click here to watch clips from the first...
Jul 26, 2012 | Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, United Nations
Dear friends, This has been an historic week at the United Nations. The US President chairing a summit of the Security Council and its adoption of a far reaching resolution on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation is extraordinary. Moreover, it is indicative that...
Jul 26, 2012 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Michael Douglas, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Recently, several members of GSI’s leadership have been in the media: Middle Powers Initiative Chairman Emeritus Douglas Roche, O.C., published an op/ed in Embassy magazine calling on Canada and other middle powers to support US President Barack Obama’s...
