Recently added articles from Ploughshares Monitor:
Rethinking NATO's strategic concept: building on the emerging nuclear abolition imperative.
Mar 22, 2009; ... While Afghanistan will certainly dominate the talk at the 60th-anniversary summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1) (NATO or the Alliance) in April, leaders are also scheduled to launch a process to review the Alliance's Strategic Concept, a key element of which is a ...
Meet our Caribbean partner: the Women's Institute for Alternative Development.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Annual murder rates in the Caribbean--at 30 per 100,000 inhabitants--are higher than in any other region of the world. The Women's Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) in Trinidad and Tobago, a longtime partner of Project Ploughshares, has been a vigorous campaigner against gun ...
In memoriam.(Obituary)
Mar 22, 2009 ... With the sudden death in February of Colonel (Rtd) Douglas A. Fraser the Canadian and international disarmament and peacebuilding communities have lost a valued friend and dedicated champion. A person of quiet strength and unswerving commitment, Doug was deeply involved in disarmament and ...
The State of World Population 2008: Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights.(Book Notices)
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The State of World Population 2008: Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights by UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), 100 pages, paperback, online at http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2008/en/index.html. Development strategies that are ...
Small Arms Proliferation and Misuse: Toward a Caribbean Plan of Action.(New Publication)
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Small Arms Proliferation and Misuse: Toward a Caribbean Plan of Action (Ploughshares Working Paper 08-1), a joint publication of the Women's Institute for Alternative Development and Project Ploughshares (35 pages), published December 2008. ...
Advancing development while reducing violence: lesson from the field.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Living free from the threat of armed violence is a basic human need. It is a precondition for human development, dignity and well-being. --The Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, June 2006 Over 90 countries have endorsed a political declaration that ...
Peace unsigned: the LRA guarantee for the peace dividend in northern Uganda.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Whoever manages to get to this man, tell him that this is the last time I am trying to meet him. It should not be me to ask for a meeting with him. I do not need a meeting with him; it is him who needs a meeting with me. If he wants help, we will help him, if he doesn't we will ...
A call for Canadian support for peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dec 22, 2008 ... On November 4, KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives issued an appeal to the Canadian Government to work for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On November 12, the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) issued a report, Promoting an Inclusive Peace: ...
Arms trade treaty: stumbling but then a step forward in 2008.
Dec 22, 2008; ... AUN experts group report on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATF) in 2008 was disappointing. Yet a broadly supported UN resolution late in the year should advance ATF negotiations in 2009 if civil society organizations and supportive states like Canada step up their advocacy for strong, common arms ...
Nuclear weapons at the UN: Canada as bridge builder?
Dec 22, 2008; ... This year the United Nations First Committee met from October 6 to November 4. A specialized committee of the General Assembly, it is tasked with discussing issues related to international peace, security, and disarmament, and generating resolutions to be considered by the Assembly. ...
The United Nations and security in a nuclear-weapon-free world.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Today, there is support throughout the world for the view that nuclear weapons should never again be used because of their indiscriminate effects, their impact on the environment and their profound implications for regional and global security. Some call this the nuclear "taboo." ...
The multilateralization of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Dec 22, 2008; ... On December 8, 1953, US President Dwight Eisenhower stood before the United Nations and described "the fearful atomic dilemma" that faced the world, pledging that the United States would seek "the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but ...
Obama on nuclear disarmament.
Dec 22, 2008; ... The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States offers genuine hope that real change is in the offing for US approaches to nuclear weapons and the treaties and agreements that are intended to control and eventually eliminate them. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East.
Dec 22, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East by Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008, 303 pages, ISBN 9781588265692, cloth $65.00US. Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East begins with a set of provocative questions: ...
A Nation without Guns? The Story of Gun Free South Africa.
Dec 22, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Nation without Guns? The Story of Gun Free South Africa by Adele Kirsten, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-86914-135-6, paperback, 244 pages, $38.95. A Nation without Guns? shows how Gun Free South Africa (GFSA), a small ...
A common priority: a space security policy for Canada.
Dec 22, 2008; ... On October 14 a new minority. Conservative government was elected. To achieve a constructive agenda for Parliament it becomes important to identify policy priorities that could gain the support of all political parties. One area of concern, which is of interest to all government ...
In Afghanistan: Transition under Threat.
Dec 22, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Afghanistan: Transition under Threat edited by Geoffrey Hayes and Mark Sedra, Centre for International Governance Innovation and Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2008, 309 pages, ISBN 9781554580118, paperback, $29.95. In Afghanistan: Transition under ...
Reykjavik Revisited: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Reykjavik Revisited: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, edited by George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell, and James E. Goodby, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2008. To download the PDF, go to http://www. hoover.org/publications/books/online/15766737.html. ...
Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North.
Dec 22, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North by Ken S. Coates, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, William R. Morrison, and Greg Poelzer, Thomas Allen Publishers, 2008, 336 pages, ISBN-13 9780887623554, cloth $29.95. A book about the history and future ...
Threats to Canada and the "Canada First Defence Strategy".
Sep 22, 2008; ... The quiet release on 19 June 2008 of the 21-page "Canada First Defence Strategy" by the Department of National Defence says much about what the current government believes to be the state of the world and how to respond to threats. In keeping with the 2006 Conservative Party election ...