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WHY PUTIN DESERVES A WHITE HOUSE MEETING WITH TRUMP
The Global Security Institute is very pleased that Newsweek is running this article by its President Jonathan Granoff. The leaders of Russia and the U.S. while in power have a duty to protect the global commons such as the rainforests, the climate and the oceans and...
Insecurity Shadows the Iran Deal by Dr. Tarja Cronberg, Chair of the Middle Powers Initiative
In light of the Trump Administration's decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) embodied in a Security Council Resolution designed to constrain Iran's nuclear program, we wish to underscore Dr. Tarja Cronberg, Chair of the Middle Powers...
Hope Not Fear: Building Peace in a Fractured World by The Honorable Douglas Roche, O.C.
The Honorable Douglas Roche, O.C., an Advisory Board Member of GSI, wrote a new book entitled Hope Not Fear: Building Peace in a Fractured World. Roche presents a sober analysis of the current existential threats facing humanity directing us to practical solutions....
The Alternate Route, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., the Chairman of GSI’s Bipartisan Security Group
In connection with the tensions between the US and Russia, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., the Chairman of GSI's Bipartisan Security Group and member of its Board of Directors, wrote a new book, entitled The Alternate Route. Graham explores avenues where even today...
The War That Must Never Be Fought: Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence: Joint Enterprise Proposal
H.E. Ambassador James Goodby, a founding member of GSI's Bipartisan Security Group, along with former Secretary of State George Shultz edited and contributed to a series of articles comprising The War That Must Never Be Fought: Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence. Of...
A Time For Serious Thinking
Dear Friends, This is a time in which serious thinking is needed. Spectacle is interesting entertainment, but only for a short while. It is insufficient for responsible governance of international security issues. The recent G7 Summit, which brought allies to...
Sustaining Peace and Conflict Prevention Through MultiTrack Education and Initiatives for the Culture of Peace and SDGs
On 30 May 2018, the Mission of Bulgaria convened a high-level meeting, entitled "Sustaining Peace and Conflict Prevention through Multitrack Education and Initiatives for the Culture of Peace and SDGs," in order to explore how both a culture of peace and the...
Jonathan Granoff and Daniel Ellsberg at the American Bar Association International Law Section’s 2018 Spring Meeting
At the New York American Bar Association International Law Section's conference of April 2018, a special event inspired and entertained. Dr. Daniel Ellsberg was a high level military analyst and his distribution of The Pentagon Papers that documented the U.S. role in...
PNND Update: Women legislators release appeal for common security and nuclear disarmament
PNND Update: Women legislators release appeal for common security and nuclear disarmament Governments must make better use of diplomacy, international law and common security mechanisms in order to prevent war and adequately address climate change and nuclear threats,...
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
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“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...