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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,...
American Bar Association International Law Section: Annual Meeting with ABA President, Kim Campbell and Jonathan Granoff
A dynamic dialogue at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association's International Law section, featuring the Right Honorable Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada, GSI President Jonathan Granoff, with opening remarks by ABA President Patricia Refo. Ms....
PNND Co-President Senator Ed Markey introduces ‘Invest in Cures Before Missiles’ (ICBM) Act
On March 26, US Representative Ro Khanna and PNND Co-President Senator Ed Markey introduced into the US Congress the Investing in Cures Before Missiles (ICBM) Act. The Act would stop the further development of the Pentagon’s new $93-96 billion ground-based strategic...
Frank Von Hippel: A Scientist in the Public Square
Dr. Frank 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 the...
Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era, With Douglas Roche.
We are excited to announce a new book, Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era, from our long term associate, and Chairman Emeritus of GSI's Middle Powers Initiative, Senator Douglas Roche. Douglas Roche, OC, KCSG is a Canadian author, parliamentarian, diplomat and...
James Goodby and David Koplow: An ambitious arms control agenda requires a new organization equal to the task
By James E. Goodby, David A. Koplow, January 12, 2021 Reprinted with permission, from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/premium/2021-01/an-ambitious-arms-control-agenda-requires-a-new-organization-equal-to-the-task/ An exceedingly...
A Commemoration of the Life and Legacy of George P. Schultz
On 26 February 2021, Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons commemorated the life and legacy of the Honorable George P. Shultz, Secretary of State of the United States of America from 1982 to 1989. Known for his instrumental role in the Reykjavik Summit and the...
Democracy, Global Security and the Vote
AREDAY - AREI American Renewable Energy Institute Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute joins RMI co-founder and Chairman emeritus Amory Lovins in a dynamic dialogue on “Democracy, Global Security and the Vote” With the US Presidential...
The Bomb: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
A film inspired by the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Featuring Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, and George Schultz, former Secretary of State of the United States. Intro by Jonathan Granoff. "...a nuclear war...
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...