Past Events

Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, Scrap Weapons The G20 response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and fears of nuclear annihilation was that ‘today’s era must not be of war.’ As such, we require a new political and technical strategy for arms control and disarmament. Just as at the bleakest moment of the Second World War, Franklin …

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Nuclear Weapons & Climate Change: Intergenerational dialogue on nuclear-climate impacts & avenues for action Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, SCRAP Weapons An inter generational symposium addressing the connections between nuclear weapons and climate change took place in London, with online participation, on Thursday 9th September 2021. Organised by the Kazakhstan Embassy to the United Kingdom, PNND, Youth …

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Eloisa Romani Project Assistant, Scrap Weapons SCRAP Weapons at SOAS University of London and the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development jointly organised the webinar ‘Advancing Integral Disarmament in Times of Pandemic’ on 23rd March 2021 at the Vatican. The webinar, which saw the intervention and support of His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary …

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Book Launch: The General Have No Clothes About the Book The definitive book about America’s perpetual wars and how to end them from bestselling author, military expert, and award-winning journalist William M. Arkin. The first rule of perpetual war is to never stop, a fact which former NBC News analyst William M. Arkin knows better …

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Short, informal conversations to build connections across global open source research. Open to anyone interested in open source verification and human security, including practitioners, researchers, journalists, policy-makers, and students.

SCRAP Weapons wants to highlight the achievements of Feminist Leadership in Disarmament, with a specific focus on women in the Global South and the work that they have been selflessly doing for decades.

In light of the successful AEGIS Ashore test which shot down an ICBM on November 16, 2020 – SCRAP Weapons will host a webinar about the implications of (successful) Ballistic Missile Defence for Strategic Stability (or balance of terror), at both the regional and global levels.

Post-Covid Multilateral Cooperation LONDON, 8 September 2020- The role of multilateral cooperation in the Covid-19 context was discussed by the speakers of the webinar themed “Post-COVID Multilateral Cooperation- A chance to achieve a nuclear-weapons-free world?” The online event was co-hosted by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in the UK and SCRAP Weapons at the Centre for …

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Lessons from the ICAN Forum in Paris Julia Auf dem Brinke Advocacy manager, SCRAP Weapons Rut Einarsdóttir Operations manager, SCRAP Weapons Engaging Young People in Disarmament Across Borders It is clear that increasingly more demilitarization organizations all over the world have started to ask the same question: how can we meaningfully engage young people with …

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SCRAP Weapons at the Youth Conference for Securing Our Common Future Jacob Loose Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons Earlier this month, I had the honour of representing SCRAP and CISD at the Youth Conference for Securing Our Common Future. The conference was hosted both at the UN Headquarters in New York and on board the Peaceboat …

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