Invitation: International Day of Non-Violence

The Global Security Institute is pleased to offer our very special friends and supporters an invitation to the United Nations’ celebration of the International Day of Non-Violence, sponsored by the Permanent Mission of India.  On October 2, you are invited to join Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, General Assembly President (and PNND member) Mogens Lykketoft, and many other speakers and dignitaries as […]

Invitation: “The Man Who Saved the World”

We are very pleased to invite you to the New York premiere of “The Man Who Saved the World,” a new film with appearances by Kevin Costner, Robert DeNiro, Matt Damon, Walter Cronkite, Ashton Kutcher, Jonathan Granoff, and many others.  Watch the official trailer: The film chronicles the little known story of how one man […]

Using “Building Blocks” to Construct a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Roundtable held at the United Nations on October 22, 2014co-sponsored by the Global Security Institute and the Permanent Missions of Japan and the Netherlands to the UN On October 22, 2014, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Permanent Missions of Japan and the Netherlands and the Global Security Institute (GSI) co-hosted an […]

PNND Annual Assembly 2014

The network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) held a resoundingly successful Annual Assembly in Washington, DC, February 25-28, 2014. US Senator Ed Markey functioned as honorary Chair of the event, which was organized jointly by PNND and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, with support from the Simons Foundation and the Kazakhstan Embassy to the United […]

Thinking Creatively: In and Out of the NPT Box

On December 11, 2013, the Global Security Institute (GSI), in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), hosted an informal roundtable discussion with presentations by Ambassador Libran Cabactulan of the Phillippines, President of the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., former US diplomat now serving as Chairman of […]

Advancing the CTBT

The Global Security Institute remains committed to achieving a permanent prohibition against nuclear weapons testing. Read the Noveber 2013 Activities Report about the new proposal we are advancing, the recent meetings held with governments, the CTBT Organization, and civil society leaders, and the UN conference seeking the entry-into-force of the CTBT, where GSI President Jonathan […]

Distinguished Guest Speakers Discuss US Interests and the 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 Law’s Delaware campus. “It is to me the place where realism and […]

Nuclear Weapons Threats and Solutions: A Luncheon at the United Nations

On October 28, 2013, the Global Security Institute hosted a luncheon event at the United Nations titled “Nuclear Weapons: Threats and Solutions,” featuring UN High Representative Angela Kane and former US Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. The event was co-hosted by the Metro New York Chapters of the Young Presidents Organization and the World Presidents Organization, […]