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 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 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 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 | 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...
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 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 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...
Aug 15, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Events, Global Security Institute, Iran, Jonathan Granoff, North Korea, NPT, Rose Gottemoeller, U.S.
Law, US Security and Nuclear Weapons: The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty and Beyond Ambassador Rose Gottemoeller Ambassador Thomas Graham On July 20, 2012, a dynamic and informative teleconference was convened by the International Law Section of the American Bar...
Aug 3, 2012 | Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Speeches & Presentations
The American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, through its Government Law Committee chaired by Jill Mariani, and in partnership with Thomson Reuters, presented a podcast series on Disaster Preparedness and Response that aired...
Aug 3, 2012 | Events, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, Nuclear Proliferation, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, Speeches & Presentations
Presentation by Jonathan Granoff, President Global Security Institute delivered to the Halki Summit on “Global Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability: A Conversation on Environment, Ethics, and Innovation” June 18-20, 2012 Istanbul, Turkey...
Aug 3, 2012 | Denuclearization, Global Security Institute, GSI News, Senator Alan Cranston
The Global Security Institute was founded in October of 1999 by Senator Alan Cranston (1914-2000) to continue and institutionalize a lifetime of dedicated work toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Following Senator Cranston’s passing, his son, Kim Cranston, was...
Aug 3, 2012 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Douglas Roche, Events, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT
August 3, 2012: The former Mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, has been appointed Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative (MPI), David Krieger, Chairman of MPI’s Executive Committee, announced today. He hailed Akiba, one of the world’s foremost...
Jul 26, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Russia, U.S.
See below for two new pieces on START– the new treaty between the US and Russia which aims to reduce each country’s arsenal to no more than 1,550 deployed warheads– by GSI leadership. Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.’s letter to the editor on...
