Sep 12, 2018 | Denuclearization, Global Security Institute, News and Updates, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Russia, U.S.
In one of his most dangerous actions yet, the U.S. President has announced plans to withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Two world leaders who negotiated the Treaty with President Reagan, have had strong words in two...
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...
Nov 21, 2017 | Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates
Manama, Nov. 15 (BNA): Assistant Foreign Minister, Abdullah bin Faisal bin Jabur Al-Dosari, received international lecturer and President of the Global Security Institute in Washington, DC., Jonathan Granoff. The Assistant Foreign Minister praised the lectures of...
Nov 21, 2017 | Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Video Blog
Jonathan Granoff featured on a TV special about the Pope’s historic views on nuclear disarmament
Nov 21, 2017 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Douglas Roche, NATO, News and Updates, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, United Nations
Reposted from the Hill Times Last week’s papal speech is a reversal of a 35-year policy, which in the arcane world of Vatican diplomacy is not easy to do. VATICAN CITY—A new milestone in the moral rejection of nuclear weapons was reached at the Vatican last week when...
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...
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...
Jun 6, 2017 | Denuclearization, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Policy Briefs and Reports, Weapons of Mass Destruction
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May 18, 2017 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Policy Briefs and Reports, U.S.
In 1996, the International Court of Justice issued an opinion that the use of nuclear weapons is scarcely reconcilable with international humanitarian law and concluded that nations have an obligation to pursue good-faith negotiations leading to disarmament. Not only...
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...
Apr 14, 2017 | Denuclearization, News and Updates, NPT, Op Eds, United Nations
By Sergio Duarte, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs* Originally posted on IndepthNews.net NEW YORK (IDN) – Despite being shunned by the nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies, the first part of the negotiations mandated...
Oct 10, 2015 | Denuclearization, Events, NPT
Since President Obama’s 2009 announcement of his long-term nuclear disarmament vision in Prague and the following signing of the 2010 US-Russia START Treaty, Prague has established itself as a venue for discussion and taking stock of issues related to nuclear arms...
Oct 1, 2015 | Denuclearization, Events, United Nations
The Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations cordially invites friends and supporters of the Global Security Institute to a special event titled, “Seeking Urgently Needed Effective Solutions.” The event will be held Wednesday, October 7,...
Aug 18, 2015 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Op Eds, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence
The following excerpt originally appeared on TheWeek.com on August 7, 2015. […] As preachers, we know that the Bible’s Psalms tell us that “the days of our years are threescore and ten.” By that counting, then, the bomb has grown old, too. As...
Jun 24, 2015 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence
Advancing nuclear disarmament is the moral imperative of our time. The Global Security Institute is engaged in a campaign fusing the morality-based calls for nuclear abolition from respected religious leaders and faith-based organizations with the rising momentum...
May 2, 2015 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., United Nations
The below article, by Jonathan Granoff, was originally published in the Huffington Post on May 2, 2015. This month at the United Nations, 190 nations will gather to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which constrains the spread of nuclear weapons and...
Apr 9, 2015 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, NPT, Op Eds, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Rose Gottemoeller, U.S., United Nations
The below article, regarding Pope Francis’ recent statement and the April 9 event which GSI co-hosted with the Holy See to highlight it, was originally published by TIME on Friday, April 10. The original version can be found here. By Elizabeth Dias –...
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...
Mar 16, 2015 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Op Eds, Russia, U.S.
The original article, which was published on March 16, 2015 in Russian by the TASS News Agency of Russia, can be found here. Below english translation provided by TASS News Agency of Russia. NEW YORK, March 16 /TASS/. Time for “new realism” has...
Jan 13, 2015 | Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Op Eds, United Nations
This op/ed, written by GSI President Jonathan Granoff, was published in the Huffington Post on January 13, 2015. Violence, war, catastrophes, and the personal affairs of celebrities pass for news these days, but we need more than that. In troubled times like these,...
Dec 10, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, GSI News, Hiroshima, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Nagasaki, Op Eds, United Nations
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 2014 (IPS) – Civil society groups are urging the U.N. General Assembly to pass a resolution declaring nuclear strikes on cities to be a clear-cut violation of international humanitarian law. At the Dec. 8-9 Vienna Conference on the...
Dec 1, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence
MEDIA ADVISORY Religious Leaders Call for the Universal Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Vienna, December 1, 2014: Leaders from the World Evangelical Alliance, the United Religions Initiative, Religions for Peace, and the Global Security Institute...
Nov 17, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, United Nations
Roundtable held at the United Nations on October 22, 2014 co-sponsored by the Global Security Institute and the Permanent Missions of Japan and the Netherlands to the UN On October 22, 2014, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Permanent Missions 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...
