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...
Nov 4, 2013 | Ambassador Henrik Salander, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Events, Global Security Institute, Speeches & Presentations, United Nations
On November, 2, 2013, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., delivered remarks at the American Physical Society Forum on Physics and Society, centered on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its relationship to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. In it, he...
Oct 28, 2013 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Disarmament, Events, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, U.S., United Nations
On October 28, 2013, the Global Security Institute hosted a luncheon event at the United Nations titled “Nuclear Weapons: Threats and Solutions,” featuring UN High Representative Angela Kane and former US Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. The event was co-hosted by the...
Sep 19, 2013 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Terrorism, Jonathan Granoff, Op Eds, Russia, U.S., United Nations
This article originally appeared in the InterPress Service HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, U.S., Sep 18 2013 (IPS) – Every nation in the world has been invited to participate at the highest political level in the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear...
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...
Aug 29, 2013 | Biothreats, Human Rights, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Op Eds, United Nations
We can hear the drum beats of war again. Syria certainly appears to have committed heinous acts. The rebels may also have done so as well. Chemical weapons have not been the only horrific means of injuring innocent people. Tens of thousands have died and millions of...
Jun 11, 2013 | Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, United Nations
The Inter-Parliamentary Union, the focal point for worldwide parliamentary dialogue working to establish representative democracy and promote peace and cooperation among peoples, together with the GSI program, the network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear...
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 | 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...
Dec 12, 2012 | Global Terrorism, Human Rights, Inspiration, Jonathan Granoff, Nuclear Proliferation, Speeches & Presentations, United Nations
presentation delivered at the Rotary Club Breakfast United Nations, New York City It is an honor to speak to you today. Rotary Clubs inspire at personal, local and global levels. Whether it is to remind an individual business man that his decisions matter or...
Nov 26, 2012 | India, Inspiration, Jonathan Granoff, United Nations
(L-R): Anwar ul Haque Chishty, Jonathan Granoff, Salman Chishty, Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, and Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri (photography credits: Jay Mandal) (UN Headquarters, New York): On the occasion of India’s Presidency of the UN Security Council, the...
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...
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...
Apr 20, 2012 | Events, Global Security Institute, United Nations
April 20, 2012 Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City » Download the full PDF report (includes transcript) How does, and how should, international humanitarian law (IHL) governing the conduct of warfare apply to nuclear weapons? On April 20, 2012, three highly qualified...
Oct 24, 2011 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Events, Global Security Institute, Nuclear Proliferation, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, United Nations
Monday October 24, 2011 Hosted by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations On October 24, 2011, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the Parliamentarian Network for Conflict Prevention (a project of the East-West...
Oct 23, 2011 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Events, Global Security Institute, NPT, Robert Grey, United Nations
Forty diplomats and civil society experts gathered at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations to participate in a workshop titled “Nuclear Weapons Convention or Framework of Agreements: Exploring Proposals for Nuclear Disarmament,” organized as an...
Oct 23, 2010 | Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, U.S., United Nations
A stimulating panel, Humanitarian Law Versus Nuclear Weapons, took as its theme the international community’s reaffirmation earlier this year that law governing the conduct of warfare applies in the nuclear arena. The October 25 event at the UN was co-sponsored by the...
Oct 23, 2010 | Disarmament, Douglas Roche, Events, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
MPI Event Report October 18, 2010 (L-R): Ambassador Cabactulan, Senator Roche, Ambassador Strohal and Alyn Ware During the panel, “Routes to Elimination,” on October 18, the President of the 2010 NPT Review Conference called on middle power...
Dec 16, 2009 | Bipartisan Security Group, DPE, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament, United Nations, Weaponization of Space
A Message from the President MPI Activities – MPI and Swiss UN Permament Mission Host 74 Representatives from Government and Civil Society – MPI Chairman Gives Keynote Address at International NGO Conference PNND Activities – PNND at the United...
Sep 24, 2009 | Ambassador Henrik Salander, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations, United Nations Security Council
When the UN Security Council convenes its summit meeting on September 24 with US President Barack Obama presiding, the Council has a unique opportunity to pronounce itself on one of most vital issues before the international community: nuclear non-proliferation and...
Jun 11, 2009 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Robert Grey, United Nations
Dear friends and supporters, It is my tremendous honor to invite you to a special event at the Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, where my friend and colleague, GSI President Jonathan Granoff, will receive the Arthur E. Armitage Distinguished Alumni Award on...
Jun 1, 2009 | Bipartisan Security Group, Disarmament and Peace Education, Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament, U.S. Congress, UK, United Nations
Contents: A Message from the President GSI Activities – “Voices of Experience,” UN Panel Event – Meeting with the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – Briefing at the UN: Human Development is National Security – Book Launch at the United...
Mar 25, 2009 | Disarmament and Peace Education, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, United Nations
On 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...
Mar 12, 2009 | Events, Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, United Nations
On 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...
Oct 24, 2008 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Henrik Salander, Biothreats, Cold War, Denuclearization, Jonathan Granoff, Media, NPT, U.S., United Nations
A workshop of “Seizing the Moment: A One-Day Consultation on Breakthrough Measures to Build a New East West Consensus on Weapons of Mass Destruction and Disarmament” co-sponsored by the EastWest Institute, the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the British-American...
Sep 25, 2008 | Disarmament, Global Security Institute, India, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, United Nations
Dear friends, As the Global Security Institute prepares for a new season of activities to advance nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, we would like to pause and share a few words in memory of Dr. Alan Phillips. Dr. Phillips was an outstanding citizen, physician...
