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Newsletter August 2023

12-Sep-2023

Newsletter August 2023 Revisiting Disarmament and Arms Control: Progress or Regression? – A Geneva Security Debate What are the challenges and opportunities to the disarmament…

Conversations on the Arms Industry

30-Aug-2023

Philip Chennery Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Conversations on the Arms Industry is a student-led SCRAP Weapons project, born with the intent to create a space…

Newsletter July 2023

07-Aug-2023

Newsletter July 2023 NEW AGENDA FOR PEACE CALLS FOR THE CONVENING OF A SPECIAL SESSION ON DISARMAMENT On July 18th, UN Secretary General, António Guterres,…

Newsletter June 2023

16-Jul-2023

Newsletter June 2023 It has been a busy summer in the world of disarmament, and for SCRAP Weapons, as we continue campaigning for the activation…

The Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit

19-May-2023

Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit Vanessa Canola Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons James Luk Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons SCRAP Weapons Project Assistants Vanessa Canola and James Luk…

Newsletter April 2023

09-May-2023

Newsletter April 2023 April was a busy month here at SCRAP Weapons! Having carried out a round of successful consultations and discussions in Brussels, Geneva, London, New…

Newsletter March 2023

06-Apr-2023

Newsletter March 2023 With a successful hybrid conference, the launch of our podcast series, and publishing multiple opinion pieces on topics ranging from the military…

Today’s Era Must Not Be of War

28-Feb-2023

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…

Convening a UNGA Fourth Special Session on Disarmament

09-Sep-2022

Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, Scrap Weapons UN Special Sessions devoted to Disarmament were held in 1978, 1982, and 1988, but a fourth never transpired, even though…

Nuclear Weapons & Climate Change: Intergenerational Dialogue on Nuclear-Climate Impacts & Avenues for Action

07-Oct-2021

Nuclear Weapons & Climate Change: Intergenerational dialogue on nuclear-climate impacts & avenues for action Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, SCRAP Weapons An inter generational symposium addressing the…

Advancing Integral Disarmament in Times of Pandemic

26-Aug-2021

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…

Book Launch: The Generals Have No Clothes

17-Jun-2021

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,…

Virtual Cafe – Verification Series

13-Jan-2021

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.

Webinar Series – Highlighting Feminist Leadership in Disarmament

17-Dec-2020

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.

BEYOND THE AEGIS TEST: STRATEGIC STABILITY AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

16-Dec-2020

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

11-Sep-2020

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…

Lessons From the ICAN Forum in Paris

10-Apr-2020

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…

SCRAP Weapons at the Youth Conference for Securing Our Common Future

04-Nov-2019

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…

Situating The Arms Trade Treaty in the Global Arms Control Context

27-Sep-2019

Situating the Arms Trade Treaty in the Global Arms Control Context Lidia Matias Geneva Representative, SCRAP Weapons 30 August 2019, the Centre for International Studies…

SCRAP at the 139th IPU Assembly: Continuing Dialogue of Disarmament

07-Nov-2018

SCRAP at the 139th IPU Assembly: Continuing Dialogue of Disarmament Harriet Hanssen Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons As SCRAP followers will remember, Monday October 15th saw…

Briefing by Dr Dan Plesch at NPT PrepCom 2018 on ‘Could the US win World War III without using nuclear weapons?’

11-May-2018

Briefing by Dr Dan Plesch at NPT PrepCom 2018 Could the US Win WWIII Without Using Nuclear Weapons? Fear of world war has crept back…

SCRAP Hosts Event at UN Geneva

07-Mar-2018

SCRAP Hosts Event at UN Geneva On 12 February, 2018, SCRAP had its sixth annual appointment to the United Nations in Geneva, as part of…

SOAS students part of the Nobel Laureate anti-nuclear campaign

01-Nov-2017

9-October-2017 The Strategic Concept for the Removal of Arms and Proliferation (SCRAP), as a member of ICAN’s coalition of partner organizations, is thrilled that the International Campaign to…

Dr. Dan Plesch Speaks About SCRAP at the UN in New York

30-Oct-2017

Dr Dan Plesch Speaks about SCRAP at the UN in New York In an interview with MA International Studies and Diplomacy student Alexandra MacAulay Abdelwahab,…

UN Discussions of General and Complete Disarmament

09-Oct-2017

UN Discussions of General and Complete Disarmament Over the last several years, the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs have discussed General and Complete Disarmament…

NEW SCRAP Publication on Disarmament and Cooperative Security out!

27-Jan-2017

NEW SCRAP Publication on Disarmament and Cooperative Security out! SCRAP is pleased to announce the launch of the new publication Reintroducing Disarmament and Cooperative Security in…

How Can We Reinvigorate General and Complete Disarmament? – Expert Panel at GCSP

17-Feb-2016

How Can We Reinvigorate General and Complete Disarmament? Sebastian Brixey Williams Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons On the 10th February, SCRAP and the Geneva Centre for…

Report of “The other part of Article VI: General and Complete Disarmament” panel discussion

21-Jun-2015

The Other Part of Article VI: General and Complete Disarmament Matthew Bolton Pace University Report on the Panel Discussion This panel, chaired by Maritza Chan,…

Dr Dan Plesch invited to the Civil Society Forum on the Conference on Disarmament

19-Mar-2015

Dr Dan Plesch Invited to the Civil Society Forum on the Conference on Disarmament Dr Dan Plesch, director of the CISD, has been kindly invited…

SCRAP Student Ambassadors at the 2014 ICAN Civil Society Forum in Vienna

19-Dec-2014

SCRAP at 2014 ICAN Civil Society Forum in Vienna Carolina Sarmento Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons Marta Corti Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons As two students involved…

Humanity Versus the Bomb

20-Mar-2014

Humanity Versus the Bomb Paul Meyer Advisory Committee Member, SCRAP Weapons This post originally appeared on OpenCanada.org on 25 February 2014. Although the natural beauty…

Notes on the Berlin Session on Humanitarian Disarmament

30-Jan-2014

Notes on the Berlin Session on Humanitarian Disarmament Kevin Miletic Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons Alexandra Tsamados Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons The Berlin Session on Humanitarian…

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