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What Oslo Conferences Mean for Nuke Abolition
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 the...
PNND Update 33 now available
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,...
ATOM Project launched at parliamentary assembly in Kazakhstan
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...
A Personal Appeal from Jonathan Granoff
"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 GSI Advisory Board...
Reflections on the Golden Rule for Today by Jonathan Granoff
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...
Ronald Reagan, Republicans, and Nuclear Weapons by Jonathan Granoff – Huffington Post
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, active Republican...
A UN Celebration: Love Towards All, Malice Towards None
(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...
Launch of the PNND/IPU Handbook at the Inter-Parliamentary Un ion Assembly in Québec, Canada
Nearly 1000 parliamentarians from 150 parliaments (including most of those from nuclear weapons-possessing countries) will gather in Quebec City for the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly from October 21-26th 2012. PNND and IPU will use the occasion to...
American Bar Association Teleconference with Rose Gottemoeller
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...
ABA Podcast: A Threat Anywhere Can Become a Threat Everywhere in Today’s Global Village
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 throughout...
Moral, Ethical, Practical, and Spiritual Global Responsibility in the Nuclear Age
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 Download printable...
The Vision and Conviction of 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...
MPI: Former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba Named New Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative
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...
Event Report from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty PrepCom Vienna, 2012
The Global Security Institute, the Middle Powers Initiative and the network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament were actively engaged in the first Preparatory Committee conference of States parties to the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
The Possibilities of Peace, Within and Without
MiND TV interviews Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute, on the possibilities of peace within individuals as well as within governments and between cultures. MiND TV owns and operates channel 35 in the Philadelphia-South Jersey region,...
GSI eNewsletter: January 2012
Visions Can Be Fulfilled 1. A Message from the President 2. DPE Activities - GSI hosts Ban Ki-moon on UN Day - Promoting the SG's Five Point Proposal - Advancing International Humanitarian Law - Launching Nuclear Abolition Forum - A Call for Abolition from the Central...
GSI eNewsletter: July 2011
Message from the President MPI Activities - New Brief: "A Global Law to Ban Nuclear Weapons" - Ottawa Seminar - World Capital Tour - InterAction Council - Swiss Seminar on Irreversibility - Geneva Consultation - Promoting the Rule of Law DPE Activities - United...
Editorials on START
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 "When Treaties are Stuck...
Chatauqua: An annual gathering to learn, play, worship, talk, be entertained and be challenged
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...
Laura Chinchilla Wins Presidency of Costa Rica
PNND Members in leadership positions worldwide The Global Security Institute and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament extend their most heartfelt congratulations to PNND Friend Laura Chinchilla for her successful election to the Presidency of...
New Multimedia and Analysis – Deepak Chopra and Jonathan Granoff on Sirius Radio
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 interview »...
GSI E-Alert: Extraordinary Week at the 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...
GSI eAlert: Articles of Interest
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 call for a...
Resources from the Sixth Meeting of the Article VI Forum
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 Transcripts - Deputy Foreign Minister Gernot...
A Message from GSI Board Member Christie Brinkley
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...
Bipartisan Security Group Lauds Middle Power Initiative Statement on Iran
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...
Sustainable Security for the 21st Century: Building bridges between disarmament and development
Special UN Panel Event Report By Jesse Zeigler Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Jane Goodall - View the photo gallery On May 10, 2010, the Global Security Institute, with co-sponsorship by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, convened...
Strengthening Global Security From Biothreats: A discussion with Dr. Barry Kellman
Policy roundtable event report By Katherine Prizeman (L-R): GSI President Jonathan Granoff, Dr. Barry Kellman and Dr. W. Pal Sidhu On April 15, 2010, the Global Security Institute and the EastWest Institute co-sponsored a policy roundtable...
Strategy Session on the NPT
Event report by Irfan Ahmed, Rhianna Tyson Kreger and Jesse Ziegler Over 75 ambassadors, experts and UN staff attended the event. On Tuesday, March 16, 2010, the Global Security Institute held a briefing for ambassadors, diplomats and non-governmental...
Atlanta Consultation III: Fulfilling the NPT
January 20-22, 2010by Jim Wurst The Middle Powers Initiative’s Atlanta Consultation III: Fulfilling the NPT was marked by openness in the deliberations and an eagerness to explore all options for fulfilling the Non-Proliferation Treaty – both at the May...