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GSI Critical News: US doesn’t have the right to violate Iran nuclear deal, Featured in the Hill
By Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute. This article is cross-posted on The Hill, one of America's most respected news publications. The Trump Administration has just walked away from the United States’ commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
Pope Francis: Historic Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
By Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute. This article is cross-posted on Huffington Post. This Thanksgiving season, we should all be grateful for the leadership of Pope Francis. On November 10, 2017, he made clear that the Church condemns...
Witness to history: Pope’s rejection of nukes a milestone, by GSI Senior Advisor Douglas Roche
Reposted from the Hill Times Last week’s papal speech is a reversal of a 35-year policy, which in the arcane world of Vatican diplomacy is not easy to do. VATICAN CITY—A new milestone in the moral rejection of nuclear weapons was reached at the Vatican last week when...
Podcast Reports about U.S. and North Korea
1. Talk Nation: U.S. and North Korean Relations, featuring Jonathan Granoff 2. Octavian Report: Why North Korea is not the real nuclear...
GSI’s presentation at the United Nations Nuclear Ban Treaty negotiations
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5 July 2017, Press Event on the Ban Treaty at the UN Correspondents Association
United Nations Correspondents Association's press event on the prohibition treaty, featuring Jonathan Granoff, President of GSI; Bill Kidd, Co-President of PNND; Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator of PNND, and Robert Green, former commander of the British Royal Navy....
The Colombia Charter. 10 Principles for Peace
Click here to read The Colombia Charter, drafted by the Nobel Peace Laureates at the World Summit.
GSI President Jonathan Granoff speaks at Middelburg 800
https://vimeo.com/212813387/02e7ab001f?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=28749 March 2017
“The Turtle, The Horse and Nuclear Weapons” by Jonathan Granoff
Presently, neither leadership nor support in the pursuit of nuclear disarmament can be expected from the nuclear weapons states. They have not vigorously pursued the incremental steps for which there is enormous international support to help make us safer and...
Banning Nuclear Weapons – An Auspicious Start
Read the piece by Sergio Duarte, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Banning Nuclear Weapons – An Auspicious Start
By Sergio Duarte, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs* Originally posted on IndepthNews.net NEW YORK (IDN) - Despite being shunned by the nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies, the first part of the negotiations mandated by the...
The 5th Prague Agenda Conference & the 2015 PNND Assembly
Since President Obama’s 2009 announcement of his long-term nuclear disarmament vision in Prague and the following signing of the 2010 US-Russia START Treaty, Prague has established itself as a venue for discussion and taking stock of issues related to nuclear arms...
Seeking Urgently Needed Effective Solutions: Responding to the Call of Pope Francis to the United Nations
The Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations cordially invites friends and supporters of the Global Security Institute to a special event titled, "Seeking Urgently Needed Effective Solutions." The event will be held Wednesday, October 7, from 1:15- 2:45...
Invitation: International Day of Non-Violence
The Global Security Institute is pleased to offer our very special friends and supporters an invitation to the United Nations' celebration of the International Day of Non-Violence, sponsored by the Permanent Mission of India. On October 2, you are invited to...
Invitation: “The Man Who Saved the World”
We are very pleased to invite you to the New York premiere of "The Man Who Saved the World," a new film with appearances by Kevin Costner, Robert DeNiro, Matt Damon, Walter Cronkite, Ashton Kutcher, Jonathan Granoff, and many others. Watch the official trailer: The...
The Shame and Horror of Nuclear Weapons
by William Swing and Tyler Wigg Stevenson The following excerpt originally appeared on TheWeek.com on August 7, 2015. [...] As preachers, we know that the Bible's Psalms tell us that "the days of our years are threescore and ten." By that counting, then, the bomb has...
The Iran Deal: Steps Toward the Common Good
This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post, August 3, 2015. We should be grateful to the diplomats for ensuring no further proliferation of nuclear weapons in a volatile region. The Iran Deal demonstrates that when powerful nations identify a common...
President Obama: A Chance to Lead
The below article, by Jonathan Granoff, was originally published in the Huffington Post on May 2, 2015. This month at the United Nations, 190 nations will gather to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which constrains the spread of nuclear weapons and...
Nuclear non-proliferation: We must keep working for a world without nuclear weapons (yes, it’s possible)
by James Goodby and Steven Pifer April 24, 2015 At the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference later this month at the United Nations, the five nuclear weapon states recognized by the Treaty—the United States, Russia, Britain, France, and China—will come in for...
The Iran Deal is a Terrible Blow… To War Profiteers (Theirs and Ours)
The below article, by Jonathan Granoff, was originally published in the Huffington Post on April 29, 2015. A deal with verifiable measure that helps prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for taking steps to help it normalize its relationships with...
Former US Defense Department Official and Former Holy See Advisor to Address Legal and Moral Aspects of Nuclear Weapon Use
For Immediate Release April 28, 2015: (New York) Can nuclear possessor states reconcile their use of—and threat to use—nuclear weapons with the laws of war? If so, how? Concurrently, can these states reconcile the use—and threat to use—nuclear weapons within...
Pope Francis’ Latest Mission: Stopping Nuclear Weapons (TIME Magazine)
The below article, regarding Pope Francis' recent statement and the April 9 event which GSI co-hosted with the Holy See to highlight it, was originally published by TIME on Friday, April 10. The original version can be found here. By Elizabeth Dias - TIME Magazine: ...
Defining a Good Iran Deal & a New Realism with Russia: GSI in the Media
While dangerous, one-dimensional soundbyte talking points dominate the media, it is our hope to offer a more nuanced, constructive analysis, firmly rooted in our commitment to the peaceful resolution of the differences between nations. If you find this material...
Nuke deal a good one if making Iran part of world community (TREND News)
The below article was originally published on March 15, 2015 in Farsi by TREND News. The translated version can be found here. Baku, Azerbaijan, March 15 By Khalid Kazimov - Trend: A nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 will be a good one if it brings Iran out into...
Time has come for “new realism” in Russia-US relations, President of US-based Global Security Institute says
The original article, which was published on March 16, 2015 in Russian by the TASS News Agency of Russia, can be found here. Below english translation provided by TASS News Agency of Russia. NEW YORK, March 16 /TASS/. Time for "new realism" has come in the...
Iran: Go Up To Go Over
presentation before the Institute for Political and International Studies of the Foreign Ministry of Iran Tehran, Iran March 9, 2008 International Conference on Iran’s Peaceful Nuclear Program and Activities: Modality of Cooperation with the...
Living Peace: A Gift for 2015 from the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
This op/ed, written by GSI President Jonathan Granoff, was published in the Huffington Post on January 13, 2015. Violence, war, catastrophes, and the personal affairs of celebrities pass for news these days, but we need more than that. In troubled times like these,...
An Open Letter to the President: A Legacy the World Needs
Open Letter sent to President Obama by GSI President Jonathan Granoff Dear Mr. President, Thanks to you, Mr. President, during your administration, the United States of America has made significant progress in numerous areas of immense importance: providing affordable...
U.N. Urged to Ban Nuke Strikes against Cities
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 2014 (IPS) - Civil society groups are urging the U.N. General Assembly to pass a resolution declaring nuclear strikes on cities to be a clear-cut violation of international humanitarian law. At the Dec. 8-9 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian...
Nuclear Talks: Will it Play in Persepolis?
Originally published by Foreign Policy, November 21, 2014 by Nancy Gallagher For the first time in more than a decade, the United States and Iran are both pushing hard to resolve their long-standing disagreements about Tehran’s nuclear program. Making that investment...