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What Shape Does Hope Take in a World We Can See is Rushing to Destroy Itself?
OPINION By Jim Creskey / October 16, 2023 Hope is rooted in our spirit. It is not a tangible thing we can put on the table to bargain over. Hope is a vision of the future, former senator Doug Roche writes in his latest book. The cover of Doug Roche’s new book, Keep...
A Letter to Diplomats Negotiating in the United Nations First Committee
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...
Addressing the Massive Global Impact of Corruption
While corruption makes daily headlines around the world, little is written about the commitment of the 189 countries that have signed the UN Convention Against Corruption, a legally binding treaty. Trillions of dollars are being bled from legitimate economies of the...
Global Threats and New Thinking With Jonathan Granoff
When will we come together as a global community to eliminate the threats we face? What can we do as individuals to make a difference in the world? Listen to the podcast below, with music by Kitty Kallen, for some answers. This epic conversation between...
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...
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...
International ‘Living Water for All’ Conference Marking UN World Water Day Held in Amritsar
Religious leaders, academics and industry professionals gathered at the Nishkam International Centre, Amritsar to discuss how to accelerate change in overcoming water problems in Punjab and globally. “Accelerating change” was the theme of 2023 UN World Water Day being...
The Role of Faith in International Affairs: Securing People’s Wellbeing and Planetary Sustainability
More than 600 people attended the Ninth Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-based Organizations in International Affairs, held online on 24 January. Exploring the theme “Securing People’s Wellbeing and Planetary Sustainability,” the symposium was...
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...
“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...
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...
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. Download a printable copy here Jonathan Granoff...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nuclear Strategy and Ending the War in Ukraine
By Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate, former President of Costa Rica, and Advisory Board Member of the Global Security Institute, and Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute. It is time for bolder efforts to make peace in Ukraine. War, like fire,...
Human Security: A Strong Foundation for Multilateral Cooperation
Published in the Cadmus Journal Volume 4, Issue 6, June 2022 Today, numerous threats challenge every person on our fragile planet. The ancient admonition found in the Upanishads that the world is one family might be understood as a necessary and very practical...
A Special Conversation on Responding to the Greatest Threats to Humanity
"I’m delighted to open this conference," said Prof. Charles Moxley, Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University. "We’ve been gratified by the turnout. A substantial number of people have shown an interest in this subject. Our purpose in focusing on this area is...
The United Nations Can Help us Get Through These Dark Days
By Douglas Rouche, Board of Advisors, Global Security Institute Russia's war on Ukraine must be strongly condemned, but that war, heinous as it is, does not invalidate the right to peace. If anything, it reinforces the overriding imperative of building a world...
Dr. William J Perry Addresses Stanford: “Reducing Nuclear Danger”
On May 17, 2022, Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security institute awarded the Alan Cranston Peace Award to Dr. William J Perry at a gathering at Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation. Below, is Dr. Perry's keynote speech. I...
Former President Oscar Arias: “Negotiating With Putin Is the Only Way Forward”
If the Cold War powers could come together to complete the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in the 1960s, and if Central America's warring parties could agree on settlements to end their conflicts in the 1980s, the same can happen today in Ukraine. In fact, there is...
New York City Council Passes Resolutions Supporting the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
The City Council of New York, on December 9, 2021, adopted several resolutions which advance the cause of nuclear disarmament. This laudable work was led by the efforts of NYCAN, and we urge your attention to its and other extraordinarily substantive, passionate, and...
An Urgent Call to Save Our Humanity – A Conversation with Jonathan Granoff and Deepak Chopra
A powerful conversation between Global Security Institute President, Jonathan Granoff, and Deepak Chopra, Founder of The Chopra Foundation — a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism. The conversation made a point that each of us need to...
A Plea From President Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate
Former President Oscar Arias is an Advisory Board member of the Global Security Institute. The former President of Costa Rica, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to establish a peace treaty with Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, four...
Putin Has Shown, in a Demented and Terrifying Way, Why the Possession of Nuclear Weapons Must be Outlawed Now
Former Senator Douglas Roche is on the Board of Advisors of the Global Security Institute. This opinion piece recently appeared in The Hill Times:
Douglas Roche: “Magnitude of Ukraine Crisis Cannot be Overstated, and the International System is Marked by Chaos.”
Former Senator Douglas Roche is on the Board of Advisors of the Global Security Institute. This opinion piece appeared in The Hill Times today. "Magnitude of Ukraine Crisis Cannot be Overstated, and the International System is Marked by Chaos." Vladimir Putin, in a...
Global Security Institute Statement on Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The Global Security Institute condemns the Russian military action against Ukraine. It is as an act of aggression. It violates the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of 1994 signed by Ukraine, Russia, US, and the UK and later adopted by France and China. That...
Jonathan Granoff Addresses the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Hearings at the United Nations General Assembly
Photograph: ©Joel S Photo LLC On 17 and 18 February, Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute and a Council Member of the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND), represented PNND at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)...
Timeless Wisdom of Gandhi and King Today (Peace, Nonviolence and Nuclear Weapons)
My Friends in the family of those who value love, justice, compassion, reason, and wisdom, the consequence of bringing these treasures into action is peace. For striving and helping to bring peace into the world, I thank you. Together we can learn to walk in the...
Watch: Jane Goodall and Jonathan Granoff at Oxford Union
Humanity faces critical challenges for which national responses are too narrow. New levels of cooperation are required for success. On November 30, 2021, world-renown primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall and GSI President Jonathan Granoff held a candid one...
The Hill: President Biden should pledge never to use nuclear weapons first
By Ambassador Thomas Graham and GSI President Jonathan Granoff President Biden can make the world a dramatically safer place by declaring that it is now the policy of the United States never to use nuclear weapons first. Such a pledge is consistent with international...
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. Makes the Case for “No First Use”
Julie Schelling with Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons interviews Voices Founding Member and Chair of GSI's Nonpartisan Security Group, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. Ambassador Graham reads from a compelling speech he gave for the Coalition for Peace Action in...
Senate Confirms Member of GSI’s Nonpartisan Security Group, Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
The U.S. Senate finally confirmed Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins last week to be undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. Her confirmation followed more than six months of delays in the Senate and bipartisan calls among security experts for her...
On July 23, the Basel Peace Office, of which GSI is a founding partner, launched Nuclear Games, a new film and an animated web-documentary addressing humanity's nuclear history and the risks and impacts of nuclear weapons and energy. The web-documentary includes...
Amb. Thomas Graham: Taiwan vs. Tyranny
The US Must Redouble Its Commitment to Secure this Shining Hill of Democracy in East Asia by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Mariana Budjeryn With a string of U.S. allies in East Asia wary of China’s rising power, the region is a focus of growing security concerns....
Granoff in Newsweek: Can Biden and Putin Ease Nuclear Dangers Like Reagan and Gorbachev?
At the recent Geneva Summit, President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a joint declaration containing strong echoes of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. It "reaffirm[ed] the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,"...
Frank Von Hippel: Biden should end the launch-on-warning option
Dr. Frank N. von Hippel, a member of GSI's Board of Advisors, is co-Director of Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security. In the 1980s, as chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, he partnered with Evgenyi Velikhov in advising Mikhail Gorbachev on...
Important Message on Biden-Putin Summit
From GSI President Jonathan Granoff and Global Coordinator, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) Alyn Ware:Dear Friends, Legislators from a mix of nuclear armed, nuclear allied and non-nuclear states have joined other political,...