Nov 7, 2013 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Michael Douglas, Policy Briefs and Reports
The Global Security Institute (GSI) remains committed to achieving a permanent prohibition against nuclear weapons testing. A New Proposal We are engaged in expert consultations based on a new proposal by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., Chairman of GSI’s...
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 31, 2013 | Global Security Institute, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Op Eds
We are the first civilization in which the pursuit of the real and the good has become separated. The current predominant worldview adopts the scientific method as the singular legitimate method of discovering the truth. It relies on prediction, repetition, control,...
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...
Oct 28, 2013 | Events
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...
Oct 24, 2013 | Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
The network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament engages parliamentarians from around the world on a cross-party basis in key nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament issues, initiatives, and forums, contributing considerably to the...
Oct 4, 2013 | Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Russia, U.S.
With over a 100, 000 deaths and 2.5 million deaths, the Syrian civil war has shaken the Middle East and horrified the rest of the world. It has raised a lot of questions about the ethical and legal justification for a humanitarian intervention, the necessity to...
Sep 27, 2013 | Video Blog
September 27, 2013 More than 100 senior government officials gathered at the United Nations for a conference seeking the entry-into-force of the CTBT. GSI President Jonathan Granoff had the privilege of delivering a statement to the conference on behalf of all civil...
Sep 26, 2013 | Biothreats, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates
Paul Walker, International Program Director for Global Green, the US branch of Green Cross, was today honored as one of the three recipients for 2013 of the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes referred to as the ‘Alternative Nobel Peace Prize’. GSI and PNND...
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...
Sep 3, 2013 | Disarmament and Peace Education, Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff
On September 3, 2013, Green Cross International hosted the seventh meeting of its “Earth Dialogue” series, which were founded by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and former UN Under-Secretary-General Maurice Strong in 2002, in Lyon, France. The...
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 24, 2013 | Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), a program of the Global Security Institute, published its Annual Report 2012. PNND is a unique international network of legislators from over 80 countries who are committed to advancing nuclear...
Jun 24, 2013 | Global Security Institute, GSI News, Jonathan Granoff
Dr. James Martin, one of the world’s most insightful, visionary, influential intellectuals, died on June 24, 2013 at the age of 79. Dr. Martin was an esteemed and active member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Security Institute. He wrote over 100 books...
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...
Apr 9, 2013 | 9-11, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NATO, Nuclear Proliferation, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Policy Briefs and Reports
April 9, 2013– Government diplomats, UN officials, disarmament researchers, policy analysts, academics and representatives of non-governmental organizations attended the launch on April 9 of Moving Beyond Nuclear Deterrence to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World, the...
Mar 11, 2013 | China, GSI Programs, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, Op Eds, Russia, U.S.
published in the Huffington Post Following the latest heightened, bellicose threats from North Korea, the UN Security Council unanimously passed a new round of sanctions on the already isolated country, aimed primarily at starving their growing missile program....
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...
Feb 22, 2013 | Op Eds
Alyn Ware writes for InDepth News– February 21, 2013 A meteor blasting into the atmosphere over Siberia (on February 15), injuring about 1000 people with debris, provided a graphic warning of the risk of a larger meteor, or even an asteroid, hitting earth. About...
Jan 25, 2013 | Disarmament, GSI Programs, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
January 2013 Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), a program of GSI, published the thirty-third edition of its global newsletter, PNND Update. This multimedia-rich resource includes vital information for parliamentarians, their staff,...
Jan 18, 2013 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Douglas Roche, Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative
I myself have no arms to hug you, but a heart as big as the open space of Kazakhstan ready to embrace the world for peace and nuclear disarmament. Karipbek Kuyukov, Honorary ATOM Project Ambassador The ATOM Project, an exciting new initiative to build global support...
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 30, 2012 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Op Eds
Listening to today’s candidates –at any level — one would not know that, historically, Republicans have been instrumental in advancing arms control, nonproliferation, and nuclear disarmament. That is, until the recent Bush administration. In fact,...
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...
