Second Annual Nuclear Prayer Day Features Reflections, Prayers and Action

On August 6, 2023, the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons and the United Religions Initiative observed The 2nd Annual Nuclear Prayer Day. The event was held at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopalian Church in New York City and featured reflections, prayers, and action steps for a nuclear weapons-free world. Guests including the […]

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 […]

Japan Urged to Push Nuclear Disarmament Principle at G7 Hiroshima Summit

Addressing a live-streamed conference held at Soka University in Tokyo on 29 March in preparation for the G7 summit in May, which Japan hosts, Takashi Ariyoshi, Deputy Secretary General of the G7 Hiroshima Summit Secretariat said that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had put high priority to include nuclear disarmament in the agenda of the summit. […]

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 […]

Canada Needs to Give More Support to UN’s New Agenda for Peace

Russia won’t stop its aggression. NATO-backed Ukraine won’t cease its counter-offensive. The threat of nuclear conflict is growing. Unspeakable brutalities are discovered every day. Everybody wants to curse the darkness. But there is one candle of hope.  If good speeches at the UN—which fill the air this week at the United Nations General Assembly’s annual debate—could save the […]

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 […]