GSI eNewsletter: January 2012

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 Limits of Unilateralism” By Amb. Thomas Graham, Jr.

Remarks by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.Washington, DC October 2, 2003 Disarmament, arms control, is not a new issue. In the Middle Ages, the Pope outlawed the crossbow declaring it to be “hateful to God and unfit for Christians.” However, the crossbow was...

Strategy Session on the NPT

Event report  by Irfan Ahmed, Rhianna Tyson Kreger and Jesse Ziegler March 16, 2010   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...

Event Report: A discussion with Dr. Barry Kellman

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...

Disease as a Weapon

September 29, 2009   In this excerpt from his keynote presentation at the World Future Society’s 2009 conference, bioviolence expert (and BSG Member) Barry Kellman warns about the prospects of turning pathogens into weapons.  

James Goodby on US-Russian Nuclear Arms Negotiations

September 24, 2009   BSG Member Ambassador James Goodby, Hoover Institution, Stanford University is a guest lecturer at the “US-Russian START Plus Arms Control Simulation” at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Ambassador Goodby talks...

GSI and BSG Events in Washington, DC

On May 3 and 4, 2007, a delegation comprised of Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., Chairman of the Bipartisan Security Group, Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, and Dr. Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Commission,...

There Is Still Hope

Testimony by Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE Washington, DC October 2, 2003 Chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than any other animal, sharing approximately 99% of their DNA with ours. They are capable of intellectual behaviors once thought unique to us. They use and...