Nuclear Weapons Threats and Solution: 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, […]

The Struggle for Syria: Panel event at Columbia University

With over a 100, 000 deaths and 2.5 million deaths, the Syrian civil war has shaken the Middle East and horrified the rest of the world.  It has raised a lot of questions about the ethical and legal justification for a humanitarian intervention, the necessity to protect international norms such as the prohibition of chemical […]

Earth Dialogues: Pathways into the Future/Triggers of Change

On September 3, 2013, Green Cross International hosted the seventh meeting of its “Earth Dialogue” series, which were founded by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and former UN Under-Secretary-General Maurice Strong in 2002, in Lyon, France. The 2013 gathering at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, aimed to confront the challenges of the 21st […]

MPI Holds Framework Forum Conference in Berlin

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 Conference leading to the elimination of nuclear weapons. (L-R): Amb. Mohamed Higazy (Egypt); Amb. Hellmut […]

ATOM Project launched at parliamentary assembly in Kazakhstan

I myself have no arms to hug you, but a heart as big as the open space of Kazakhstan ready to embrace the world for peace and nuclear disarmament. Karipbek Kuyukov, Honorary ATOM Project Ambassador The ATOM Project, an exciting new initiative to build global support for nuclear abolition, was launched at a parliamentary assembly […]

PNND and IPU launch Parliamentary Handbook on UN Day

Launch and workshop at the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Québec City, Canada Nearly 1000 parliamentarians from 150 parliaments (including most of those from nuclear weapons-possessing countries) will gather in Quebec City for the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly from October 21-26th 2012. PNND and IPU will use the occasion to launch a Parliamentary Handbook on […]

American Bar Association Teleconference with Rose Gottemoeller

Law, US Security and Nuclear Weapons:The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty and Beyond   Ambassador Rose Gottemoeller Ambassador Thomas Graham On July 20, 2012, a dynamic and informative teleconference was convened by the International Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA).  It featured Acting US Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller, US Department of State, […]

Event Report from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty PrepCom Vienna, 2012

The Global Security Institute, the Middle Powers Initiative and the network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament were actively engaged in the first Preparatory Committee conference of States parties to the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. In addition to undertaking quiet advocacy with key delegations, we organized several, highly regarded, well- attended events […]

Nuclear Weapons and International Humanitarian Law

April 20, 2012 Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City » Download the full PDF report (includes transcript) How does, and how should, international humanitarian law (IHL) governing the conduct of warfare apply to nuclear weapons? On April 20, 2012, three highly qualified speakers addressed that question in a well-attended program of the annual meeting of […]

Widener University School of Law Event

On November 29, 2011, the Widener University School of Law hosted BSG Chairman Thomas Graham for “A Discussion on Nuclear Disarmament with a Great American Ambassador” featuring US Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. Ambassador Graham, chairman of the Bipartisan Security Group and member of the Global Security Institute Board of Directors, has served as a senior […]