Unshackle the Burden of Contradictions

Presented to the Framework Forum Roundtable, Monday, April 18, 2016, in Geneva, Switzerland. Sponsored by Mission of Canada, Middle Powers Initiative, and the Friedrich-Ebert- Stiftung. The Middle Powers Initiative has a 15 year history of producing substantive policy briefs and convening relevant parties to engage in meaningful discussions from which creative polices have emerged. We […]

Thoughts on Nuclear Weapons From the Past That Have High Relevance Today

This presentation was given to the Framework Forum Roundtable in Geneva, Switzerland, on 18 April 2016.  This event, sponsored by the Mission of Canada, Middle Powers Initiative, and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung,  took place seven years ago, yet still has high relevance today. The Middle Powers Initiative has a 15 year history of producing substantive policy briefs […]

“If We Get Ever Other Issue Right, But Fail on Nuclear Weapons, We Won’t Last Long”

On 24 November, Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, addressed the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs held in Zagreb, Croatia. The two-day conference called “Security, Science and Peace Conference 2022” was held from the 23rd -24th of November 2022 and was organized by Pugwash Croatia and the World Academy of Art […]

Human Security: Virtuous, Practical, Urgent, and Necessary

Humanity is making itself an endangered species. Change is needed. Human security is the direct, accurate, and needed framework to generate that change. Continuing without a paradigm change will surely lead to disaster. Jonathan Granoff writes for Horizons magazine, the publication of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) — a public policy […]

UN Speech: “More Capacity to Destroy Will Not Bring More Peace.”

“Human Security and the Imperative of Fulfillment of NPT Promises” — Presented by GSI President Jonathan Granoff on August 5, 2022, at the United Nations General Assembly Hall, United Nations, New York City, as part of the 10th Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference Watch the video presentation here Your Excellencies,  It is a great honor to […]

Context for Needed Nuclear Policy Change

Astana Club, Global Alliance of Leaders| Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan | November 15-17, 2021By Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute History never stands still. The movement of nations can be guided by their agreements which become law through treaties or the excessive pursuit of perceived limited self-interest guided by the quest for superior power. One path […]

Proposal for a UN General Assembly Resolution on the Threat of Nuclear-Weapons-Use Arising From the Ukraine Conflict

Abolition 2000 Nuclear Risk Reduction Working Group, Basel Peace Office, Global Security Institute, Human Survival Project, People for Nuclear Disarmament, World Future Council, Zona Libre Any use of nuclear weapons, arising from the Ukraine conflict, or from any other conflict, would create catastrophic humanitarian, economic, military and political consequences. A primary concern of the UN […]

World’s Only Surviving Multilateral Nuclear Weapons Treaty is on the Verge of Collapse

Photo: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in Ottawa. Does anybody care that the world’s only surviving multilateral nuclear weapons treaty — the one designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons around the world — is on the verge of collapse. Parliament is snoozing while the world shifts into a confrontational mode—driven by the military-industrial […]