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Euractiv Media Op Ed: Leading the way to a world free of nuclear weapons
Today more than ever, the world needs leadership in the field of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Kazakhstan keeps providing this leadership, writes Jonathan Granoff. In 1949, the first of over 450 nuclear explosive tests, surprised the residents in towns...
GSI President Jonathan Granoff and Dr. Jane Goodall for UN Peace Day 2020
For the United Nations International Day of Peace, world renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, joined GSI President Jonathan Granoff for a virtual conversation entitled “Peace or Pieces?” This...
Nuclear Weapons and Human Survival: A Conversation with Dr. William Perry and Jonathan Granoff
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American Bar Association Dialogue with Under Secretary General Izumi Nakamitsu and Jonathan Granoff
Watch an inspiring dialogue on "Matters that Matter," with United Nations Under Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu and GSI President Jonathan Granoff, Chairman of the Task Force on Nuclear Nonproliferation and President of the Global Security...
The First Earth Day: Senator Alan Cranston
April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day. And GSI co-founder Senator Alan Cranston was at UC Davis to make it memorable: watch video here
Mikhail Gorbachev: When The Pandemic Is Over, The World Must Come Together
During the first months of this year, we have seen once again how fragile is our global world, how great the danger of sliding into chaos. The COVID-19 pandemic is facing all countries with a common threat, and no country can cope with it alone. The immediate...
Videos: UN International Day of Conscience
On April 5, 2020, dignitaries and artists gathered virtually to celebrate the UN International Day of Conscience. Global Security Institute is proud to have participated in the organization of the event, along with two of GSI's Advisory Board members, Jane Goodall and...
Message from Director-General World Health Organization
A message from Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the World Health Organization, for the UN International Day of Conscience:
Jonathan Granoff Message for UN International Day of Conscience
Video Message: Jonathan Granoff Enjoy the message from GSI President Jonathan Granoff for the UN International Day of Conscience. Reflections on United Nations Day of Conscience “Promoting A Culture of Peace With Love and Conscience” And Golden Rule Day Jonathan...
Mikhail Gorbachev: No One Else Can Hide
From the Interfax News Agency, April 2, 2020: Former USSR President calls for revision of world agenda under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic Moscow. April 2 INTERFAX.RU - The first and only President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev answered the questions of...
Newsweek: ‘National Security’ Is too Crude to protect Us From Pandemics
JONATHAN GRANOFF AND BARRY KELLMAN ON 3/17/20 AT 3:46 PM EDT Whose security is threatened by the coronavirus? The Chinese, the Italians, the Americans? The answer, of course, is everyone's security is threatened. The virus has no regard for national identity. It...
The Pope and Nuclear Deterrence: Georgetown Conference
Also see: The Georgetown Initiative: Responsible Investing for a Sustainable FutureOn January 31, 2020, experts gathered at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., to address challenges and solutions to the current crisis in nuclear non-proliferation and...
New York City hearings pave the way for nuclear weapons divestment
On Tuesday last week (January 28), New York City Council held public hearings on two measures (draft Resolution 0976 and Initiative 1621) which if adopted would oblige the city to divest its city pension funds from the nuclear weapons industry and establish an...
Granoff Presentation — Guidance for a Nuclear Weapons Free World: The Pope and the Ban Treaty
Conference Presentation The Pope and the Bomb: Beyond Deterrence Georgetown University, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs January 30, 2020 Jonathan Granoff. President Global Security Institute, Representative to the United Nations of the World...
GSI President in The Hill: Senator-jurors who may not be impartial? Remove them for cause
GSI President Jonathan Granoff in The Hill: As President Donald Trump's impeachment trial opened, Chief Justice John Roberts swore in all the members of the U.S. Senate who made an oath to "do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help me...
GSI President in The Hill: Senators, keep your oaths (‘so help you God’)
GSI President Jonathan Granoff in The Hill: On the divisive question of President Donald Trump’s Senate trial and whether it should or shouldn’t lead to his removal from office, it is important to remember something we risk forgetting: the oaths that senators take....
World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates: Videos
Two of the prominent panel discussions of the 17th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Meridá, Mexico were entitled The Power of Law vs. The Law of Power, and Four Priorities for Nuclear Disarmament. GSI President Jonathan Granoff was a speaker on the...
Gorbachev Message to Fellow Nobel Laureates at Meridá Summit
click image to watch Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev sent a very personal and...
Youth Declaration at World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, of which the Global Security Institute is a long-time associate, has a powerful element of youth participation, including special panels for youth with Nobel laureates, joint activities with youth organization,...
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: A Culture of Peace
In additional to the Final Declaration of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Meridá, Mexico, the Nobel laureates makde a special declaration about the establishment of a culture of peace: TEXT OF DECLARATION: The undersigned, gathered in Mérida,...
World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates: The Urgent Need to Prevent Nuclear War
As well as the Final Declaration of the Summit, this year the Nobel Peace Prize laureates issued a special Declaration on the use of nuclear weapons and the current state of nuclear disarmament.TEXT OF DECLARATION:Since August 1945, when the US detonated...
Make Your Mark For Peace. Final Declaration Of The 17th Nobel Peace Summit
Global Security Institute was proud to be a participant in this year's World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Meridá, Mexico, September 19-21. After a weekend of profound discussions and panels, the Nobel laureates issued the following final declaration:...
Jonathan Granoff Speech on Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings
The Power of Vision 26th Annual Interfaith Peace Gatheringin Commemoration of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic BombingsMonday, August 5, 2019 Japan Society AuditoriumNew York City Jonathan Granoff,President Global Security Institute; Representative to the...
Nuclear Weapons Free Zones and Advancing the Cause of Nuclear Disarmament
Report on Nuclear Weapons Free Zones and Advancing the Cause of Nuclear Disarmament, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the United NationsProgress on advancing nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament is imperative for human survival. It is...
Speech: United Religions Initiative
The United Religions Initiative (URI) is a global grassroots interfaith network that cultivates peace and justice by engaging people to bridge religious and cultural differences and work together for the good of their communities and the world. The purpose...
Granoff at Interfaith Council of Greater Sacramento, CA.
On May 2 GSI President Jonathan Granoff delivered the keynote address to the...
Newsweek: Trump’s Nuclear Treaty Withdrawal Weakened the West and Unleashed Russia
A groundbreaking article was published by Newsweek today, authored by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., a member of GGI's Board of Directors and Co-Chair of the Nonpartisan Security group, and GSI President Jonathan Granoff, on the ramifications of the U.S....
Basel Appeal to Save the INF
The Basel Peace Office, Mayors for Peace, the World Future Council and GSI program Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament have issued a joint appeal from American and European Mayors, parliamentarians, policy experts and civil...
Senator Markey, Congressman Lieu: Restrict First use of Nuclear Weapons
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament Co-President, Senator Ed Markey, and Congressman Ted Lieu, re-introduced legislation today to curtail Presidential power over the use of nuclear weapons. We are very pleased to share this...
Newsweek: The Shutdown Crisis is Far Worse than Either Party Realizes
GSI President GSI in Newsweek: "In his recent Oval Office speech, President Trump invoked humanitarian motives, fears of beheadings, and even God to justify shutting down the government until he gets $5 billion for a wall to “protect” the U.S. border with...
World’s Parliament of Religions, Toronto
From November 1-7, 2018, The Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., a long-time adviser to the Global Security Institute, and GSI President Jonathan Granoff met with other leading faith and disarmament leaders at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Toronto,...
Statement from the Parliament of World Religions Calls for Elimination of Nuclear Threat
Published on The Parliament of the World's Religions, November 29, 2018.The following statement, developed by Jonathan Granoff of the Global Security Institute, with the supportive consultations of our esteemed Parliament presenters former Canadian Prime...
Jonathan Granoff and Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq in Greenland
Standing at the edge of the polar ice caps, it is clear that the destruction of our Earth by nuclear weapons and its degradation by the man-made factors of climate change are inextricably linked. Join us as GSI President Jonathan Granoff and Angaangaq...
Video: Bahrain Prime Minister Report on UN Bahrain Visions Forum
Video report from the office of His Royal Highness Bahrian Prime Minister Khalifa...
‘Bahrain Visions Forum’ at UN
On September 27, 2018, the Kingdom of Bahrain and Global Security Institute hosted the 'Bahrain Visions Forum: Shared Vision Towards a Successful, Sustainable Future' at the United Nations in New York, on the side of the UN General Assembly 73rd...
Video: Bahrian Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa on Conclusion of Nobel Laureates Visit
His Royal Highness Bahrian Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa speaks at the conclusion of a...
Bahrain: President F.W. de Klerk Speech
TEXT: SPEECH BY FORMER PRESIDENT FW DE KLERKAT THE NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE LECTURESMANAMA, BAHRAIN 13 SEPTEMBER 2018 MULTILCULTURALISM AND GLOBAL POLITICAL CHALLENGES Your Royal Highnesses, Fellow Nobel Peace Laureates, Your Excellencies, ladies and...
Senator Edward Markey and other Senators: Restrict Presidential Power Over First Use of Nukes, Ban Low Yield Nuclear Weapons
It is unconscionable that any one person – no matter who it is– has the sole ability to end civilization as we know it. As it stands, President Trump can simply launch a nuclear weapon on a whim and no one can stop him.In 2017, Congressman Ted W. Lieu...
GSI Delegation to Bahrain for High Level Meetings
On September 12, 2018, a delegation organized by Global Security Institute arrived in Bahrain for meetings with the Prime Minister and other high level officials regarding efforts for peace and stability in the region. His Royal Highness, the Prime...
PNND in the News: PNND at the 12th Annual International Conference on Overseas Development Aid
'Imagine if nuclear weapons were used on the Korean Peninsula, either by the DPRK or the United States. The devastation to humans, infrastructure and the environment would likely be catastrophic even if it were only one or two nukes detonated,' said Alyn...