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The Alternate Route, Book by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. was involved in the negotiation of every international arms control and non-proliferation agreement from 1970 to 1997, including the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT Treaties), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START Treaties),...
The War That Must Never Be Fought: Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence
Ambassador James Goodby, a founding member of GSI's Nonpartisan Security Group (formerly Bipartisan Security Group), joined former Secretary of State George Shultz as editors of The War That Must Never Be Fought: Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence, a series of articles...
A Time For Serious Thinking by Jonathan Granoff
Dear Friends, This is a time in which serious thinking is needed. Spectacle is interesting entertainment, but only for a short while. It is insufficient for responsible governance of international security issues. The recent G7 Summit, which brought allies to...
Sustaining Peace and Conflict Prevention Through MultiTrack Education and Initiatives for the Culture of Peace and SDGs – Panel
On 30 May 2018, the Mission of Bulgaria convened a high-level meeting, entitled "Sustaining Peace and Conflict Prevention through Multitrack Education and Initiatives for the Culture of Peace and SDGs," in order to explore how both a culture of peace and the...
Jonathan Granoff and Daniel Ellsberg at the American Bar Association International Law Section’s 2018 Spring Meeting
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg was a U.S. military analyst, employed by the RAND Corporation, who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the...
PNND Update: Women legislators release appeal for common security and nuclear disarmament
On May 24, 2018, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released Securing our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament. May 24 was also Women's International Day for Peace and Disarmament. PNND women leaders used the occasion to release an appeal Common security for a...
Suzanne Spaulding in WaPo: John Bolton just weakened America’s cyberdefenses
In February, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats deemed cyberwarfare the No. 1 threat to the United States. Yet this month, new national security adviser John Bolton decided to eliminate the cybersecurity coordinator position on the National Security...
Granoff in The Hill : US doesn’t have the right to violate Iran nuclear deal
By Jonathan Granoff Published in The Hill The Trump Administration has just walked away from the United States’ commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known in the American media as "the Iran Deal." But it’s not an informal...
GSI President on the ‘Real Leaders’ Top 100
We are proud to announce that GSI President Jonathan Granoff has been selected for the Top 100 Visionary Leaders by Real Leaders Magazine. In choosing its 100 Visionary Leaders the magazine stated: "We discovered a common characteristic too: Real leaders...
MLK Day: Gandhi and King
"Nothing so dramatically expresses the discordance between physical capacity and moral immaturity than a thermonuclear device." Martin Luther King, Jr. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. succinctly described our current predicament posed by the threat to use nuclear...
Disarmament and Peace Education
Welcome! If you are new to the issue of nuclear weapons and want to learn more, you've come to the right place. Here you can learn about the history of nuclear weapons, use our glossary to learn words that may be new to you, find useful facts about nuclear weapons,...
Pope Francis: Historic Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
By Jonathan Granoff Published on Huffington Post. This Thanksgiving season, we should all be grateful for the leadership of Pope Francis. On November 10, 2017, he made clear that the Church condemns both the use of nuclear weapons and the immorality of...
Bahrain’s Support to International Peace: Historic Meeting between Jonathan Granoff and the Assistant Foreign Minister of Bahrain
Manama, Nov. 15 (BNA): Assistant Foreign Minister, Abdullah bin Faisal bin Jabur Al-Dosari, received international lecturer and President of the Global Security Institute in Washington, DC., Jonathan Granoff. The Assistant Foreign Minister praised the lectures of...
Jonathan Granoff’s comments about the Pope’s historic position on nuclear disarmament
Jonathan Granoff featured on a TV special about the Pope's historic views on nuclear disarmament
Witness to history: Pope’s rejection of nukes a milestone, by GSI Senior Advisor Douglas Roche
Reposted from the Hill Times Last week’s papal speech is a reversal of a 35-year policy, which in the arcane world of Vatican diplomacy is not easy to do. VATICAN CITY—A new milestone in the moral rejection of nuclear weapons was reached at the Vatican last week when...
President GSI Meets With Deputy Foreign Minister of Bahrain
GSI President Jonathan Granoff met today with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Bahrain. From the website of the Foreign Ministry: "The Assistant Foreign Minister, Abdullah bin Faisal bin Jabur Al-Dosari, received at his office in the Ministry’s General Court...
Jonathan Granoff and Michael Fitzpatrick honor Gandhi’s Birthday at UN
Today is Gandhi's Birthday! Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute and one of the Peace Pledge Project initiators honors the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi at the UN Assembly with a message of non-violence and love that is relevant today. The...
Today’s Nuclear Crisis, Perspective and Moving Forward
Presently, the entire world is hostage to a nuclear crisis expressed in the language of war and destruction by the leaders of North Korea and the United States We can look over the abyss and the reality of the consequence of the uses of nuclear weapons strikes...
NEVER FORGET VIRTUE, NEVER FORGET HIROSHIMA, NEVER GIVE UP WORKING FOR PEACE
Nuclear Weapons: There are no good hands for these bad arms. Join the majority of nations which have adopted a Treaty to Prohibit them everywhere forever! Do not ever forget what happened in Hiroshima. It must never happen again. The report about our amazing event on...
Homage to Thomas Merton and 72nd A-bomb Anniversary Event in NYC
Dear Friend: Please join us, invitation below. Please support our work. August 6, 1945 represents a day that forever challenges every person who loves the gift of life and creation with a choice - be silent or work to ensure that the horror never happens again. Today,...
GSI June Interim Report 2017
Dear Friends, Senator Ed Markey, a Co-President of a program of the Global Security Institute, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, with hundreds of legislative leaders in over 80 nations, has correctly identified the need to bring the...
Ex-Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev: ‘World Is Preparing for War, 27 January 2017
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is on the Board of Advisors of the the Global Security Institute. We take his advice very seriously. He warned us today that we are sliding toward a war that will kill us all. He proposes that the United Nations Security...
Passing the Nuclear Football, January 2017
Dear Friend, The Nuclear Football has been handed off to a new team. If its power is unleashed, unimaginable suffering follows as humanity ends. At this moment we do not know exactly what plays will be run. We do know that the voice and activism of the Global...
Podcast Reports about U.S. and North Korea
1. Talk Nation: U.S. and North Korean Relations, featuring Jonathan Granoff 2. Octavian Report: Why North Korea is not the real nuclear danger
PNND addresses the UN General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament
Civil society addresses the UN General Assembly on nuclear disarmament Sep 27, 2017 | Movement News | Global citizens have the means and power today to end the threat from nuclear weapons, according to civil society representatives speaking at...
An Extraordinary Event, Featuring Dr. Jane Goodall, 17 September 2017
Dear Friends, On Sunday, September 17, in cooperation with ICV and the Franklin Institute, Mr. Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, engaged in a riveting discussion with his good friend GSI Advisory Board member Dr. Jane Goodall at...
GSI’s presentation at the United Nations Nuclear Ban Treaty negotiations
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NEVER FORGET VIRTUE, NEVER FORGET HIROSHIMA, NEVER GIVE UP WORKING FOR PEACE
Jonathan Granoff Contributor President Global Security Institute, UN Representative of the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates, and Ambassador for Peace, Security and Nuclear Disarmament of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Chair of the International Law...
5 July 2017, Press Event on the Ban Treaty at the UN Correspondents Association
United Nations Correspondents Association's press event on the prohibition treaty, featuring Jonathan Granoff, President of GSI; Bill Kidd, Co-President of PNND; Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator of PNND, and Robert Green, former commander of the British Royal Navy....
Never Forget the Good: GSI’s Second Working Paper to the Ban Treaty Negotiations
View our 2nd working paper