May 30, 2005 | Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Iran, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Regrettably, there are times when multilateral forums tend merely to reflect, rather than mend, deep rifts over how to confront the threats we...
Nov 12, 2004 | Events, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up From 10-13 November, twenty-five Nobel Peace Laureates and their organizations met in Rome, Italy to consider vital issues of multi-ethnicity, human...
Nov 12, 2004 | Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Nobel Peace Summit 2004: A Call For Freedom Rome, Italy November 12, 2004 Under the high patronage of the President of the Italian...
Nov 12, 2004 | Cold War, DPE, GSI News, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence
Introduction Saadi, the Persian poet of the 13th century, sang: The human family is one body with many parts Creations arising from one unseen essence Any harm to any part summons an awakening a dis-ease and a healing response from all parts You who fail to feel the...
Nov 12, 2004 | Cold War, DPE, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
From 10-13 November, twenty-three Nobel peace laureates and laureate organizations met in Rome, Italy for the 5th Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. As in previous years, their annual Summit was organized by the Gorbachev Foundation and co-hosted by former Soviet...
Nov 12, 2004 | Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, GSI News, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, News and Updates, North Korea, UK, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Final Statement of the 5th Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates Rome, Italy November 12, 2004 Under the high patronage of the President of the...
Nov 11, 2004 | China, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Remarks by M S Swaminathan President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World AffairsI. Guiding principles of ethical economics Spreading the concept...
Nov 11, 2004 | Cold War, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, U.S., United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Remarks by Mary Ellen McNish Secretary General, American Friends Service Committee Before I begin my short remarks I feel I must, as an American,...
Nov 11, 2004 | DPE, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Iraq, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Russia, U.S.
Dialogue between Gunnar Westberg, MD, Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) & Alex Rosen, Medical Student representative to the Board of IPPNW G: We are sometimes told that terrorism is the greatest threat in...
Nov 11, 2004 | 9-11, DPE, Global Terrorism, GSI Programs, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Nuclear Proliferation, U.S., UK, United Nations
Dear Friends, On 11th September, people everywhere were shocked into the realization that we live in a dangerous world. Those who lost loved ones, and the American people, had our sympathy. But how did the American Administration respond? Tragically, very badly. There...
Nov 10, 2004 | DPE, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Speeches & Presentations
Speech by Paul A. Lacey, Clerk, American Friends Service Committee I will concentrate on two aspects of the same problem: the threat of terror and the danger of the War on Terror. I speak as a Quaker pacifist and as an American citizen, fully recognizing that terror...
Apr 24, 2004 | Disarmament, DPE, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Human Rights, Middle Powers Initiative, Weapons of Mass Destruction
Dear Friends: I am not an expert on nuclear weapons or global politics, but I do have enough common sense to know two things: First, nuclear weapons threaten the lives of billions of people. And second, my country will be unable to persuade others not to...
Oct 30, 2003 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Michael Douglas, NPT, United Nations
October 30, 2003 Washington, DC-On October 2, the House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation, in cooperation with the Bipartisan Security Group (BSG), hosted a special session titled, “Limits of Unilateralism.” Addressing an...
Apr 12, 2003 | Denuclearization, DPE, Events, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Iraq, Nuclear Proliferation, Senator Alan Cranston, United Nations
On Saturday, April 12, 2003 the Global Security Institute presented Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi with the 2003 Alan Cranston Peace Award. Following is a transcript of her remarks, as prepared. “I wish to express my appreciation to the Members of the Board, the...
Jan 10, 2003 | Human Rights, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Media, North Korea, U.S., United Nations
San Diego Union Tribune January 10, 2003 War does not exist without the shedding of innocent blood. Under the best-case scenario, Iraq’s children – present victims of the Ba’ath Party mafiocracy with its Don, Saddam Hussein – will suffer most....
Oct 5, 2002 | Douglas Roche, Human Rights, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Middle Powers Initiative, U.S., United Nations
Financial Times October 5, 2002 From Senator Douglas Roche and Mr Jonathan Granoff. Sir, If Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction, their control and elimination must be done in an effective manner that reinforces international stability. It is in the utmost...
Apr 16, 2002 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Biothreats, Cold War, Denuclearization, Disarmament, DPE, Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Human Rights, Nagasaki, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Senator Alan Cranston, United Nations
Remarks upon Accepting the Alan Cranston Peace Award by Jayantha Dhanapala Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs Award Ceremony Hosted by the Global Security Institute United Nations New York, NY 16 April 2002 Excellencies, friends and comrades – not...
Apr 8, 2002 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Henrik Salander, Biothreats, Denuclearization, Douglas Roche, Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Media, Middle Powers Initiative, Nobel Summit, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Rose Gottemoeller, Russia, U.S., United Nations
New York April 8, 2002 On April 8, 2002 the opening day of the 2002 NPT Review Conference Preparatory Committee, the Middle Powers Initiative, a program of the Global Security Institute, hosted a Strategy Consultation at the United Nations in New York. The Strategy...
Apr 4, 2002 | Cold War, Disarmament, DPE, Hiroshima, Human Rights, Middle Powers Initiative, Nagasaki, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, NPT, United Nations
Twenty years ago, in 1982, a world commission led by the Swedish diplomat Inga Thorsson published a report on the relationship between disarmament and development. It set out the security options for governments: more money for arms or more money for economic and...
Feb 20, 2000 | Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Media, Nobel Summit, U.S., United Nations
Sunday, February 20, 2000 SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA–As President Bill Clinton ponders his post-presidential career options, he might consider the example of a former president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias Sanchez. It was Arias who brokered a Central American peace deal...
Jun 16, 1999 | Cold War, Disarmament, Human Rights, News and Updates, NPT, Russia, U.S.
Reprinted with permission BEIJING: For 50 years, hanging over our heads like a sword of Damocles, nuclear weapons have never ceased threatening humanity’s survival. The end of the Cold War has not brought about their disappearance. The nuclear reduction process...
