Jun 1, 2018 | Disarmament, News and Updates, Newsletter, United Nations
On May 24, 2018, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released Securing our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament. May 24 was also Women’s International Day for Peace and Disarmament. PNND women leaders used the occasion to release an appeal Common security...
Dec 14, 2017 | Disarmament, Global Security Institute, GSI News
Welcome! If you are new to the issue of nuclear weapons and want to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Here you can learn about the history of nuclear weapons, use our glossary to learn words that may be new to you, find useful facts about nuclear...
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...
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...
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...
Sep 26, 2014 | Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Senator Alan Cranston, Speeches & Presentations
Presentation delivered on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations, New York, September 26, 2014, by Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute Mr. Secretary-General, Mr. President, Your Excellencies,...
Sep 22, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, GSI Programs, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT, Policy Briefs and Reports, United Nations
Far from extinguishing hopes for progress in nuclear disarmament, the violence-torn summer of 2014– televised killings in Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq– should remind us of the inarguable imperative of prohibiting and eliminating nuclear weapons. The...
May 14, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, U.S., United Nations
opening remarks by Jonathan Granoff at the event “Nuclear Weapons and the Moral Compass” co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Philippines and the Global Security Institute United Nations Trusteeship Council Chamber April 30, 2014 Sometimes a...
Apr 5, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, NPT, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, United Nations
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has 190 member States, more than any other treaty addressing weapons. From April 28-May 9, 2014 its members met in the Trusteeship Council chambers of the United Nations in New York City and failed to make progress on reducing no...
Mar 24, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Newsletter
Kudos to The Nuclear Security Summit March 20, 2014: The Global Security Institute congratulates the heads of state and government gathering in The Hague on March 24-25 for their work in improving the security of nuclear...
Dec 23, 2013 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, GSI News, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
December 23, 2013 Dear friend, The Global Security Institute makes our voices for a safer world impact where it matters–decision makers in Washington, capitals around the world, and the United Nations. Your investment in its work will make a difference. My work...
Nov 14, 2013 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Events, GSI Programs, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Grey, U.S., United Nations
“There is nothing else like it,” said senior advisor to the U.N. Foundation Gillian M. Sorensen of the United Nations at the International Law Society’s Distinguished Speaker Series event held on Wednesday, November 14th in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom on Widener...