Ploughshares Monitor back issues from September 1998:
Challenges of leadership (Canada again elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council).
Sep 01, 1998; ... Canadian multilateralism received a welcome boost when Canada was again elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council. A middle power sharing the better part of a continent with a decidedly big and sometimes contrary power, Canada will find in the Security Council one more forum in ...
Responding to terrorism.
Sep 01, 1998; ... In August 1998 the United States offered cruise missile attacks on targets in Afghanistan and Sudan as its primary political response to the heinous criminal acts that, two weeks earlier, had killed 263 people and injured more than 5,000 in terrorist bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam ....
Growing reality of security-for-profit.
Sep 01, 1998; ... Earlier this year, Canadians were treated to a glimpse of a new reality in the business of security, and how it has, in many instances, indeed become a business. A former general officer in the Canadian Armed forces publicly made the case for the UN to draw on private security ...
Countermeasure systems for Turkish helicopters: spotlight on Canadian military exports.
Sep 01, 1998 ... The Deal Davis Engineering of Ottawa will supply 159 infrared countermeasure systems for the Turkish Army's UH-1H, AB-205, and AB-212 utility helicopters. The contract, worth more than $12 million, will add to almost $125 million in Canadian military goods that have been ...
Asleep at the table (aerospace defence co-operation with the U.S.).
Sep 01, 1998 ... US Space Command is promoting a Long Range Plan that would have profound implications for Canada's aerospace defence co-operation with the United States through the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). The Canadian government strongly supports the continued existence of the ...
Pentagon pollution (US lawmakers want exemption for US military operations from the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions).
Sep 01, 1998 ... Fresh on the heels of US government attempts to exclude the Pentagon from parts of the Ottawa Landmines Treaty, US lawmakers have moved to exempt US military operations from the international Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In May the US House of ...
Nuclear weapons and Canada.
Sep 01, 1998; ... The question of what to do about nuclear weapons is increasingly on the international agenda. In this report, an updated version of Project Ploughshares' February 1998 submission to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Bill Robinson summarizes the current ...
Roundtables call for action (excerpt from Report of Discussions with Community Leaders across Canada on topic of nuclear weapons).
Sep 01, 1998 ... For the second time, September 8-26, 1998, Project Ploughshares conducted a series of Roundtables on the subject of nuclear weapons for community leaders and interested citizens across Canada. The first such exercise, in 1996, produced a national report recommending that Canada formally ...
International action network established (controlling small arms).
Sep 01, 1998 ... In August 1998, 45 individuals representing 33 organizations from 18 countries (8 northern and 10 southern) met for three days at Lake Couchiching near Orillia, Ontario to explore ways in which civil society groups and institutions around the world could work together more effectively to ...
Ploughing ahead.
Sep 01, 1998 ... to plough ahead Informal To undertake vigorously to accomplish, finish or solve (a piece of work, problem, etc.) Ploughshares' community groups First, a huge thank you to all those who worked through the past summer to organize the highly successful September series ...
20-minute peace workout: nuclear weapons in South Asia.
Sep 01, 1998 ... The topic for fall 1998 Nuclear weapons in South Asia The nuclear weapons tests conducted by India and subsequently Pakistan in May sent shockwaves around the world. It had long been known that India and Pakistan possessed embryonic nuclear forces (India conducted a ...