Jul 26, 2012 | Disarmament, Disarmament and Peace Education, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nuclear Proliferation
The Chatauqua Institution offers an annual retreat in western New York State where the human spirit is renewed, minds stimulated, faith restored and the arts valued. This year, an entire week will be devoted to discussions of nuclear...
Jul 26, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, NPT
Dr. Deepak Chopra, one of the world’s most influential advocates of well being and peace, is featuring GSI President Jonathan Granoff on a series of interviews for his video blog, Intent, and Sirius Radio show. » Click here to watch clips from the first...
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...
Jul 26, 2012 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Michael Douglas, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Recently, several members of GSI’s leadership have been in the media: Middle Powers Initiative Chairman Emeritus Douglas Roche, O.C., published an op/ed in Embassy magazine calling on Canada and other middle powers to support US President Barack Obama’s...
Jul 25, 2012 | Ambassador Henrik Salander, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter
MPI Chairman Henrik Salander and German Deputy Foreign Minister Gernot Erler Documents – Final Report – Summary Report – Briefing Paper: “A Global Public Good of the Highest Order” – Program – List of participants ...
Jul 25, 2012 | Christie Brinkley, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Nobel Summit
GSI President Jonathan Granoff, GSI Board Member Christie Brinkley and Nobel Peace Summit Award Recipient George Clooney This past December, the Nobel Peace Laureates gathered together in a Summit in Rome, and I had the privilege of joining GSI President...
Jul 25, 2012 | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Bipartisan Security Group, Global Security Institute, Iran, Israel, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, NPT, Robert Grey, U.S.
Dear friends, We would like to draw your attention to the recent declaration of the Middle Powers Initiative on the US/Iran confrontation. Such a clear, powerful statement advocating for the resolution of differences through intensified diplomatic means is a welcomed...
Jul 16, 2012 | Inspiration
A special broadcast of Our Sacred Journey with Audrey Kitagawa A VoiceAmerica radio show The living systems of the planet — rainforests, oceans, and climate are threatened. There are over 20,000 nuclear weapons in the world today quietly ready, just as they were...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by Jonanthan Granoff and Pavel PalazhchenkoHuffington Post May 31, 2012 NATO’s Heads of State and Government met in Chicago on May 20 and 21. A few weeks earlier, April 23-25, the Nobel Peace Laureates gathered there for their annual summit. A city that could...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by Rhianna Tyson KregerHuffington PostMay 18, 2012 Iran’s presumed quest for nuclear weapons isn’t just about nuclear weapons. It is also about prestige, and it is also about respect, both of which Iran believes it is entitled to, and neither of which it...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
By Jonathan Granoff Huffington Post March 21, 2012 We hear a great deal of bravado on the best way to respond to the international security threat posed by Iran. The mantra of having “all options on the table” should include the many options...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
By Thomas Graham Ambassadors Perspective March 15, 2012 Iran has been pursuing a nuclear program for nearly four decades. It began when the Shah was in power, was initially not continued by the Islamic Republic but by the late 1980’s was...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by James Goodby and Nathan Pyles The Hill November 21, 2011 The world recently marked the 25th anniversary of the historic Reykjavik summit, when President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in a simple clapboard house in...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson Review of Faith & International Affairs August 2011 Nuclear weapons are devices; a means to a variety of ends. Ethical analysis must have compelling moral ends as the primary point of reference. By morally examining a...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by David Krieger counterpunch.org August 26-28, 2011 Recently, a friend sent me a copy of Admiral Hyman Rickover’s 1982 Morgenthau Memorial Lecture. The lecture, given under the auspices of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by Dr. Nancy Gallagher The Nonproliferation Review June 2011 The disappointingly slow pace of progress on efforts to prevent proliferation, reduce nuclear weapons, and eliminate nuclear risks has many causes. The factor that might be easiest for individuals in the...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by Alyn Ware Huffington Post March 23, 2011 The earthquake and tsunami in Japan devastated a whole region. Radioactive emissions from the damaged nuclear reactors are very serious, and have already contaminated food and water, prompting a ban on food exports...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger Huffington Post March 15, 2011 As the health impact of smoking became better known to Americans, the practice eventually diminished. The cigarette industry decided to look beyond US borders. Huge amounts of money are...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by Douglas Roche Embassy March 9, 2011 Two events have coincided to give the Canadian government a powerful opportunity to play a key role in the growing effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Both the Senate and the House of Commons have...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Huffington Post by Rhianna Tyson Kreger December 23, 2010 If you witnessed a lot of hubbub in Dupont Circle pubs last night, it’s a good chance it was the celebrations of my passionate arms control friends and colleagues, relishing the victory that...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by Douglas Roche December 15, 2010 Hansard recorded the event in the House of Commons under “Routine Proceedings,” but there was nothing routine about it. For the first time in the history of Canada’s Parliament, both the House...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff December 1, 2010 I’ve just returned from Hiroshima where Nobel Peace Laureates gathered for a three-day summit to renew their efforts to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons. After hearing testimonies of...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by Alyn Ware November 10, 2010 In 1996, Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy invited ‘like-minded States’ to Ottawa to draft a treaty banning landmines- bypassing negotiations on a more limited landmines control regime that were bogged...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff November 4, 2010 The 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will meet in Hiroshima, Japan, on November 12-14, and the Laureates, including President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama, are asking US President Barack...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff October 18, 2010 The natural world has value independent of the markets of man, and we ignore this fact at our peril. Corporations and states can no longer operate as if they are independent of the natural world....
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Tikkun, and re-published in the Huffington Post by Jonathan Granoff and Rhianna Tyson Kreger July 29, 2010 A few years ago, Lawrence Bender and Jeffrey Skoll set out to make a new documentary about nuclear weapons, a film which would act as a wake up...
