Jul 9, 2014 | Speeches & Presentations
Jonathan Granoff wrote a chapter on “Nuclear Weapons” for the fourth edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, published by MacMillan Reference. Download the full chapter here.
May 28, 2014 | Global Security Institute, Video Blog
Watch the full recording of the April 30, 2014 event “Nuclear Weapons and the Moral Compass,” co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Philippines and the Global Security Institute, held in the Trusteeship Council Chamber of the United Nations...
May 14, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, NPT, U.S., United Nations
opening remarks by Jonathan Granoff at the event “Nuclear Weapons and the Moral Compass” co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Philippines and the Global Security Institute United Nations Trusteeship Council Chamber April 30, 2014 Sometimes a...
May 6, 2014 | Global Security Institute, Video Blog
Watch the presentations from the April 30, 2014 event “Nuclear Weapons and the Moral Compass,” co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Philippines and the Global Security Institute, held in the Trusteeship Council Chamber of the United Nations...
Apr 5, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Jonathan Granoff, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, NPT, Religion and Nuclear Deterrence, United Nations
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has 190 member States, more than any other treaty addressing weapons. From April 28-May 9, 2014 its members met in the Trusteeship Council chambers of the United Nations in New York City and failed to make progress on reducing no...
Feb 20, 2014 | Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Climbing The Mountain: Legislators collaborating on bilateral, plurilateral and global measures towards a secure nuclear-weapons-free-world Parliamentary Conference and PNND Annual Assembly February 25-27, 2014 — Washington, DC Hosted by Honorary Chair US...
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...
Jun 24, 2013 | Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), a program of the Global Security Institute, published its Annual Report 2012. PNND is a unique international network of legislators from over 80 countries who are committed to advancing nuclear...
Feb 28, 2013 | Events, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, United Nations
February 22-23, 2013 Creating the Conditions and Building the Framework for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World was the title of the Middle Power Initiative’s Berlin Framework Forum, a new initiative designed to help implement the decisions of the 2010 NPT Review...
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...
Jun 13, 2012 | Events, Policy Briefs and Reports
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Science and Technology Experts’ Briefing 3. MPI’s Framework Forum 4. PNND Activities- Scottish MP presents campaign for WMD-Free Middle East – Presentation to the NPT PrepCom delegates – New Agenda Coalition...
Jun 8, 2012 | News and Updates
October 24, 2011– “We know that the world of tomorrow is shaped by the decisions we make today. A world free of nuclear weapons is a concrete possibility,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the high-level conference commemorating United Nations...
May 22, 2012 | Op Eds
Valuable Approach to Advance the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Announcing Articles in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and the Fordham International Law Journal Dear Friend: “Nuclear weapons are unworthy of civilization.” Senator Alan Cranston, founder...
May 22, 2012 | Events
GSI Event Report October 25, 2010 A stimulating panel, Humanitarian Law Versus Nuclear Weapons, took as its theme the international community’s reaffirmation earlier this year that law governing the conduct of warfare applies in the nuclear...
May 22, 2012 | Newsletter
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...
May 22, 2012 | Photo Galleries
co-sponsored by the Middle Powers Initiative and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Geneva, September 14-15, 2010 Page 1 | Page 2 Former Under-Secretary-General Jayantha Dhanapala and Ambassador Jürg Lauber chair the conference Ambassador...
May 22, 2012 | Events
Nuclear Weapons Convention or Framework of Agreements: Exploring Proposals for Nuclear Disarmament Event Report by Rhianna Kreger October 24, 2011 Forty diplomats and civil society experts gathered at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations to...
May 22, 2012 | Middle Powers Initiative
Wednesday November 23, 2011 On November 23, Ambassador Alexandre Fasel, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations in Geneva hosted and chaired a diplomatic roundtable at the Palais des Nations on A Global Law to Ban Nuclear Weapons attended by...
May 22, 2012 | News and Updates
Governments have now explicitly recognized the centrality of international humanitarian law (IHL) in the field of nuclear weapons policies. The 2010 NPT Review Conference expressed “deep concern at the catastrophic consequences of any use of nuclear...
May 22, 2012 | GSI News, Speeches & Presentations
March 2, 2012 RE: GSI Open Letter to President ObamaArms Control in the Information Age: The “Getting to Zero” Toolbox, Hon. Rose GottemoellerAscend the Political Ladder, OPANAL Presentation by Jonathan Granoff Dear Friend, I bring to your attention a...
