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The New START Treaty and Nuclear Winter: Re-centering Global Risk in Arms Control Debates

02-Feb-2026

The New START Treaty and Nuclear Winter: Re-centering Global Risk in Arms Control Debates Monalisa Hazarika strategic communications and partnership officer, SCRAP Weapons On 28 January 2026, the...

Who Decides the Future? Intergenerational Perspectives on Disarmament

19-Dec-2025

Who Decides the Future? Intergenerational Perspectives on Disarmament Monalisa Hazarika strategic communications and partnership officer, SCRAP Weapons On 11 December 2025, SCRAP Weapons, in...

Back to the “Future” or Stuck in the Realms of Cold War: The UN Summit of the Future

12-Dec-2024

Back to the “Future” or Stuck in the Realms of Cold War: The UN Summit of The Future Monalisa Hazarika Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Earlier this year, I had the...

The New Agenda for Peace and a UN Special Session on Disarmament

03-Jun-2024

The New Agenda for Peace and a UN Special Session on Disarmament Amanda Narhan Pereira Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons On January 31st, 2024, SCRAP Weapons held an enlightening discussion concerning...

Interreligious Dialogue on Activating a Special Session on Disarmament

02-May-2024

Interreligious Dialogue on Activating a Special Session on Disarmament Monalisa Hazarika Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Continuing the conversation around the campaign for a fourth Special Session...

Harmony in Disarmament: Upholding the Human Right to a Safe and Healthy Environment

04-Apr-2024

Harmony in Disarmament: Upholding the Human Right to a Safe and Healthy Environment Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, SCRAP Weapons On 26th March 2024, SCRAP Weapons with Parliament of the World’s Religions...

First Committee at the United Nations, New York

01-Nov-2023

First Committee at the United Nations, New York Vanessa Canola Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Breaking the impasse in the disarmament apparatus (through SSOD-IV) is needed now more than ever. From...

Interreligious Dialogue and Disarmament

05-Oct-2023

On 5th October 2023, The Episcopal Church and SCRAP Weapons invited speakers from different faith-based organisations and religious denominations to contribute to a panel along with researchers...

Revisiting Disarmament and Arms Control: Progress or Regression- A Geneva Security Debate

19-Sep-2023

Revisiting Disarmament and Arms Control: Progress or Regression?- A Geneva Security Debate On 19th September 2023 SCRAP Weapons, in collaboration with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and...

Peace for Gender Equality | NGO CSW/ NY

19-Sep-2023

Peace for Gender Equality | NGO CSW/NY On 19th September 2023 SCRAP Weapons’ Project Coordinator, Eloisa Romani, intervened as a panelist at the NGO CSW/NY’s September meeting. The meeting...

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 and arms control...

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 for sharing challenges, hopes, and...

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, released the long awaited New...

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 of a Fourth Special Session...

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 attended the G7 Youth...

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 York, Vienna, Washington DC...

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 balance in the Taiwan Strait...

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 be of war.’ As such...

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 this was expected and prepared...

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...

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 webinar ‘Advancing...

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, military expert, and award-winning journalist...

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...

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...

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...

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 “Post-COVID Multilateral...

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 Disarmament Across Borders It is...

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 representing SCRAP and CISD at...

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 and Diplomacy (SOAS –...

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 SCRAP director Dr. Dan...

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 with alarming swings in the...

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 an event hosted by the...

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...

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, Dr. Dan Plesch, Director of...

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 (GCD) more regularly...

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 the Toolbox of...

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 Security Policy (GCSP) held a...

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, Minister Counselor at the Permanent...

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 to participate to the one-day...

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 in the SCRAP project, we...

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 of the venue belied the...

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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