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ABA Special Showcase Event: A Dialogue with Michael Douglas

  April 2012 At the April 2012 Conference of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association held in NewYork City, UN Messenger of Peace and longtime GSI supporter Michael Douglas held an entertaining, substantive, and inspiring dialogue with GSI...

Pacta Sunt Servanda

October 24, 2011   GSI President Jonathan Granoff’s remarks on United Nations Day, 2011      

Jonathan Granoff speaks from the Semipalatinsk test site

October 13, 2011   During the Nuclear Weapons Free World Forum in Kazakhstan, held on the 20th anniversary of the closing of the Semipalatinsk test site of the Soviet Union, GSI President Jonathan Granoff shares his thoughts.   Watch the clip:    ...

Hiroshima Day 2011

66 years ago nuclear bombs fell on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing untold death and destruction. The anniversary is a powerful reminder to us all of the horrors of nuclear weapons. This short documentary by the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty...

CTBT: The Treaty and its People

  The aim of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is to prohibit nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere, always. The Treaty dates back to 1996, but as long as it has not entered into force the threat of nuclear testing remains. The importance of...

The Power of Peace

May 2011 GSI President Jonathan Granoff talks about the Newark Peace Education Summit and the dynamic nature of PEACE.

Deepak Chopra Hosts “The Road to Nuclear Disarmament”

featuring Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Valerie Plame Wilson, Lawrence Bender and Jonathan Granoff July 21, 2010 Deepak Chopra hosted “The Road to Global Nuclear Disarmament: The Origin, the Evolution and the Future,” a special edition of his weekly...

The Middle East: Peacemaking and the NPT

  May 21, 2010 At the height of the negotiations on the Middle East at the NPT Review Conference, GSI Senior Officer Rhianna Tyson chaired a session organized by Greenpeace Mediterranean, Israel. Speakers included MPI Expert Consultant Dr. Rebecca Johnson, Anne...

Sustainable Security for the 21st Century

May 10, 2010   A special panel event at the United Nations, with representatives from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and the Commission on Sustainable Development.   Featuring UN Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs,...

The Obama Nuclear Security Summit

April 11, 2010 On TV New Zealand, Alyn Ware explains how President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit this week in Washington is part of a series of initiatives to prevent nuclear proliferation and achieve nuclear disarmament – the most important of which...

Disease as a Weapon

September 29, 2009   In this excerpt from his keynote presentation at the World Future Society’s 2009 conference, bioviolence expert (and BSG Member) Barry Kellman warns about the prospects of turning pathogens into weapons.  

Obama at the Security Council

September 24, 2009 Al Jazeera English channel interviews GSI President Jonathan Granoff moments after US President Barack Obama chairs a Summit of Heads of State of the Security Council.       » Read GSI’s Huffington Post analysis of the...

James Goodby on US-Russian Nuclear Arms Negotiations

September 24, 2009   BSG Member Ambassador James Goodby, Hoover Institution, Stanford University is a guest lecturer at the “US-Russian START Plus Arms Control Simulation” at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Ambassador Goodby talks...

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...