Mar 25, 2005 | Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations
Dear Friend: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is essential to global security. It establishes a legal and moral norm to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and obtain their global elimination. Its future is at risk. The Global Security Institute is...
Mar 20, 2005 | DPE, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff
Eric Ersequn is spending this weekend resolving a hostage crisis in the Ivory Coast. The Hastings High School senior and other student delegates were given an hour yesterday to peacefully resolve the conflict as part of their participation in a model U.N....
Feb 19, 2005 | Biothreats, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Dr. Jane Goodall, Inspiration, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S.
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up Atlanta, GA — When you hear “Jane Goodall,” think of a growing worldwide movement to abolish nuclear weapons. Why? Because, Dr....
Feb 18, 2005 | China, Disarmament, DPE, Dr. Jane Goodall, France, Global Security Institute, India, Israel, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, NPT, Pakistan, Rose Gottemoeller, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations
Contact: Zachary Allen, Tel: 415-397-6760, zack@gsinstitute.org SAN FRANCISCO-Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter recently hosted a consultation of diplomats and government officials at The Carter Center. The Consultation sought to preserve and strengthen the Nuclear...
Jan 25, 2005 | Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Hiroshima, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Nagasaki, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Robert Grey, United Nations
Dear Friend: The Global Security Institute joins in offering condolences and support to the survivors of the recent tsunami. In the midst of an inspiring outpouring of caring for those injured by world’s worst natural disaster of modern times, where thousands...
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 | 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 | 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 11, 2004 | Disarmament and Peace Education, DPE, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit
Remarks by Alyn Ware, International Coordinator, Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament Note: This presentation included slides of peace education in action. Most of the photos and additional information is available from the New Zealand Ministry of Education...
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...
Nov 5, 2004 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, China, Cold War, Denuclearization, DPE, France, Global Security Institute, India, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, Russia, Speeches & Presentations, U.S., UK
In 1958, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made clear the reason the United Kingdom acquired nuclear weapons. Referring to the British nuclear weapon program, Macmillan said in a television interview that “the independent contribution [i.e., British...
Oct 31, 2004 | Jonathan Granoff, Video Blog
In October 2004, Jonathan Granoff gave a speech about the US Constitution and The Earth Charter at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Courtesy of Pierreterre.com
Oct 28, 2004 | Biothreats, Global Security Institute, GSI News, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, U.S., United Nations
The inspection disarmament efforts through the UN system worked in Iraq. The invasion was not necessary. Billions of dollars have been squandered, thousands of lives and limbs lost, and the people of Iraq live in increasing poverty and insecurity. Did this happen...
Oct 25, 2004 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter
Contents 1. A Message from the President: Bush v. Kerry 2004 2. MPI Chairman Honored by New Agenda Coalition 3. New Book by BSG Chairman Thomas Graham, Jr. MORE…
Jul 27, 2004 | Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Security Institute, Inspiration, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nuclear Proliferation
July 27, 2004 Dear Friends: For a sustainable future where rainforests can thrive and provide homes for primates, and where hope and joy can shine in the faces of children who live without fear of war, higher levels of international cooperation are needed. Science and...
Jun 30, 2004 | 9-11, DPE, Global Terrorism, Iraq, Senator Alan Cranston, United Nations
As we witness the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq, I wonder what my father, the late Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., would have thought about the situation there. A few days before he passed away in December 2000, he completed a book entitled “The Sovereignty...
Jun 25, 2004 | Denuclearization, Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Security Institute, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nuclear Proliferation, Senator Alan Cranston
June 30, 2004 Dear Friends: It is hard to believe that it will be five years ago this November when my father, Alan Cranston, called his friend Mikhail Gorbachev and asked him to be the first member of the Global Security Institute’s Board of Advisors. With...
Jun 21, 2004 | Disarmament, DPE, Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Russia, Senator Alan Cranston, U.S.
“It’s difficult enough to think about one’s own mortality; it’s overwhelming to think about the mortality of the species. And that’s what we’re talking about.” So said Jonathan Granoff ’70 on the Public Radio...
Jun 14, 2004 | Biothreats, Cold War, DPE, Dr. Jane Goodall, Global Security Institute, Global Terrorism, Jonathan Granoff, Senator Alan Cranston, United Nations
Contact: Zachary Allen Tel: (415) 397-6760 “Senator Alan Cranston was a passionate public servant, a true citizen of the world and an inspirational force for peace. The Sovereignty Revolution, finished shortly before his death, gives voice to his...
Jun 14, 2004 | Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, DPE, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, NATO, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
Dear Friends: When I look into the eyes of my children, I remember why I am committed to working for a safer world, a world without nuclear weapons. Imagine a world without organizations like the Global Security Institute. Could we survive if the voices of...
Apr 27, 2004 | Bipartisan Security Group, Media, Nuclear Proliferation, Robert Grey
April 27, 2004 Washington, DC In response to the President’s non-proliferation proposals announced in February, the House Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation, in cooperation with the Global Security Institute’s Bipartisan Security Group, hosted a...
Apr 27, 2004 | Ambassador Henrik Salander, Biothreats, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Pakistan, U.S.
About BSG BSG Experts News Room BSG Publications Newsletter Sign Up Remarks by Ambassador Henrik Salander, Secretary-General, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) I want to thank the Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation for including me in this panel. I...
Apr 21, 2004 | DPE, Global Security Institute, Iraq, Jonathan Granoff, News and Updates, Robert Grey, U.S., United Nations
People make mistakes. We should not be too surprised or dismayed at the failure of intelligence regarding weapons in Iraq. We now know that blood and treasure is being spent based on speculation or evidence ignored. David Kay’s testimony that Iraq did not pose a...
Dec 31, 2003 | Douglas Roche, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Summit, U.S. Congress, United Nations
GSI December 31, 2003 A Message of Hope from Pierce Brosnan Dear Friends: When I look into the eyes of my children, I remember why I am committed to working for a safer world, a world without nuclear weapons. Imagine a world without organizations like the Global...
Dec 15, 2003 | Biothreats, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Jonathan Granoff, Nagasaki, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, U.S., United Nations
About GSI Who We Are What You Can Do Documents GSI Publications News Room Multimedia Links Events Newsletter Sign Up There are approximately 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world, 90 percent of which are possessed by Russia and the United States. The United...
Dec 13, 2003 | Bipartisan Security Group, Iraq, Media, Robert Grey, United Nations
December 13, 2003 In his memoir, A World Transformed, former President George Bush in discussing the Gulf War made the following observation: ”Trying to eliminate Saddam would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably...
