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Human Security: A Strong Foundation for Multilateral Cooperation
Published in the Cadmus Journal Volume 4, Issue 6, June 2022 Today, numerous threats challenge every person on our fragile planet. The ancient admonition found in the Upanishads that the world is one family might be understood as a necessary and very practical...
A Special Conversation on Responding to the Greatest Threats to Humanity
"I’m delighted to open this conference," said Prof. Charles Moxley, Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University. "We’ve been gratified by the turnout. A substantial number of people have shown an interest in this subject. Our purpose in focusing on this area is...
The United Nations Can Help us Get Through These Dark Days
By Douglas Rouche, Board of Advisors, Global Security Institute Russia's war on Ukraine must be strongly condemned, but that war, heinous as it is, does not invalidate the right to peace. If anything, it reinforces the overriding imperative of building a world...
Dr. William J Perry Addresses Stanford: “Reducing Nuclear Danger”
On May 17, 2022, Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security institute awarded the Alan Cranston Peace Award to Dr. William J Perry at a gathering at Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation. Below, is Dr. Perry's keynote speech. I...
Former President Oscar Arias: “Negotiating With Putin Is the Only Way Forward”
If the Cold War powers could come together to complete the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in the 1960s, and if Central America's warring parties could agree on settlements to end their conflicts in the 1980s, the same can happen today in Ukraine. In fact, there is...
New York City Council Passes Resolutions Supporting the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
The City Council of New York, on December 9, 2021, adopted several resolutions which advance the cause of nuclear disarmament. This laudable work was led by the efforts of NYCAN, and we urge your attention to its and other extraordinarily substantive, passionate, and...
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Oscar Arias
David Koplow
Tarja Cronberg
Douglas Roche
Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins
Recent Newsletters
“Saving Our Democracy and for America and the World”
Invitation: Dr. William J. Perry, Governor Brown and Others
Ensuring Global Peace Through Ecological Regeneration
Ukraine Update: President Arias, Senator Roche, Ambassador Graham
Human Security
Watch: Jane Goodall and Jonathan Granoff at Oxford Union
Humanity faces critical challenges for which national responses are too narrow. New levels of cooperation are required for success. On November 30, 2021, world-renown primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall and GSI President Jonathan Granoff held a candid one...
Jonathan Granoff | Human-Centered Education
World Academy of Art and Science Title of the Panel: Educating Leaders for a Different Future Date: Dec 8, 2021 Event: 5th International Conference on Future Education - Global Leadership Challenges in Higher Education for Effective Multilateralism & Sustainable...
Genuine Human Security: with Jonathan Granoff and Maria Espinosa
An important dialogue with GSI President Jonathan Granoff and Maria Espinosa, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense of Ecuador and former President of the United Nations General Assembly. Ms. Espinosa was the first female UN Ambassador from Ecuador.
Noteworthy
On July 23, the Basel Peace Office, of which GSI is a founding partner, launched Nuclear Games, a new film and an animated web-documentary addressing humanity's nuclear history and the risks and impacts of nuclear weapons and energy. The web-documentary includes...
Amb. Thomas Graham: Taiwan vs. Tyranny
The US Must Redouble Its Commitment to Secure this Shining Hill of Democracy in East Asia by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Mariana Budjeryn With a string of U.S. allies in East Asia wary of China’s rising power, the region is a focus of growing security concerns....
Frank Von Hippel: Biden should end the launch-on-warning option
Dr. Frank N. von Hippel, a member of GSI's Board of Advisors, is co-Director of Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security. In the 1980s, as chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, he partnered with Evgenyi Velikhov in advising Mikhail Gorbachev on...
Important Message on Biden-Putin Summit
From GSI President Jonathan Granoff and Global Coordinator, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) Alyn Ware:Dear Friends, Legislators from a mix of nuclear armed, nuclear allied and non-nuclear states have joined other political,...
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GSI In Conversation With…
A new series of video conversations between GSI President Jonathan Granoff and the people who have helped to shape the world on nuclear disarmament.
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The Deadly Consequences of Nuclear War
Two articles on nucleardarkness.org that explain in detail the effects of even a limited nuclear engagement on our world. Nuclear War Threatens Human Existence City on Fire by Lynn Eden
The Man Who Saved the World
A 2013 feature-length Danish documentary film now available on Netflix. By filmmaker Peter Anthony, The Man Who Saved the World is the story of Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, and his role in preventing the 1983 Soviet...
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Kazakhstan: October 18 Celebrations, the Day of Spiritual Consent
In Kazakhstan, October 18 is celebrated as a day that unites the people around traditional moral values, promulgates the idea of tolerance and spiritual accord for the sake of peace and stability of Kazakhstan society. On October 18th 1992 the 1st World Congress of...
World Unity Week: Inner Peace and Outer Peace
GSI President Jonathan Granoff speaks on the relationship between inner peace and creating world peace, joined by Azza Karam, Secretary-General, Religions for Peace, Audrey Kitagwa, Founder, International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, and Sadhvi Bhagawati...
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A Plea From President Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate
Former President Oscar Arias is an Advisory Board member of the Global Security Institute. The former President of Costa Rica, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to establish a peace treaty with Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, four...
Putin Has Shown, in a Demented and Terrifying Way, Why the Possession of Nuclear Weapons Must be Outlawed Now
Former Senator Douglas Roche is on the Board of Advisors of the Global Security Institute. This opinion piece recently appeared in The Hill Times:
Douglas Roche: “Magnitude of Ukraine Crisis Cannot be Overstated, and the International System is Marked by Chaos.”
Former Senator Douglas Roche is on the Board of Advisors of the Global Security Institute. This opinion piece appeared in The Hill Times today. "Magnitude of Ukraine Crisis Cannot be Overstated, and the International System is Marked by Chaos." Vladimir Putin, in a...
Global Security Institute Statement on Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The Global Security Institute condemns the Russian military action against Ukraine. It is as an act of aggression. It violates the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of 1994 signed by Ukraine, Russia, US, and the UK and later adopted by France and China. That...
Jonathan Granoff Addresses the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Hearings at the United Nations General Assembly
Photograph: ©Joel S Photo LLC On 17 and 18 February, Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute and a Council Member of the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND), represented PNND at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)...
Timeless Wisdom of Gandhi and King Today (Peace, Nonviolence and Nuclear Weapons)
My Friends in the family of those who value love, justice, compassion, reason, and wisdom, the consequence of bringing these treasures into action is peace. For striving and helping to bring peace into the world, I thank you. Together we can learn to walk in the...
Watch: Jane Goodall and Jonathan Granoff at Oxford Union
Humanity faces critical challenges for which national responses are too narrow. New levels of cooperation are required for success. On November 30, 2021, world-renown primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall and GSI President Jonathan Granoff held a candid one...
The Hill: President Biden should pledge never to use nuclear weapons first
By Ambassador Thomas Graham and GSI President Jonathan Granoff President Biden can make the world a dramatically safer place by declaring that it is now the policy of the United States never to use nuclear weapons first. Such a pledge is consistent with international...
Conference of the World Council of Religious Leaders on Faith and Diplomacy: Generations in Dialogue
GSI President Jonathan Granoff presented a speech at the Conference of the World Council of Religious Leaders on Faith and Diplomacy: Generations in Dialogue.” held October 4-7 in Lindau, Germany. The conference was produced by Religions for Peace and Ring for Peace,...
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. Makes the Case for “No First Use”
Julie Schelling with Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons interviews Voices Founding Member and Chair of GSI's Nonpartisan Security Group, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. Ambassador Graham reads from a compelling speech he gave for the Coalition for Peace Action in...
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Delayed Review – Issues Old and New
by Ambassador Thomas Graham This paper addresses the current uncertain status of the NPT Review Conference, originally scheduled for 2020. When the Conference is eventually held, three principal issues likely to be examined are the continued failure to bring the CTBT...
Open Letter to UNGA on Nuclear Risk Reduction
August 30, 2021 Open Letter to the United Nations General Assembly and Delegates to the September 26 UN High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament From People for Nuclear Disarmament, Human Survival Project and the Abolition 2000 Working Group on Nuclear Risk Reduction...
UN pledges full support to Nagasaki voices fuelling ‘powerful global movement’ against nuclear arms
António Guterres has reaffirmed the full support of the United Nations to amplifying the powerful testimony of the survivors of the atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, 76 years ago, which has helped build a “powerful global movement against...
Senate Confirms Member of GSI’s Nonpartisan Security Group, Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
The U.S. Senate finally confirmed Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins last week to be undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. Her confirmation followed more than six months of delays in the Senate and bipartisan calls among security experts for her...
On July 23, the Basel Peace Office, of which GSI is a founding partner, launched Nuclear Games, a new film and an animated web-documentary addressing humanity's nuclear history and the risks and impacts of nuclear weapons and energy. The web-documentary includes...