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 machinery and treaties? What role do these mechanisms play at a time of uncertainty in international politics? Are and can these mechanisms and treaties contribute to peace …
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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 ideas relating to the arms industrial complex. Throughout the series, SCRAP aims to involve not only individuals focused on policy-making, law or technology, but also …
The Disarmament Agenda Is Seriously Stalled. The General Assembly Can Revive It. Eloisa Romain Project Coordinator, SCRAP Weapons Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally published on PassBlue on 8th August 2023. For the disarmament agenda to progress, its machinery needs to be revisited. Current efforts by the Conference on Disarmament — the United Nations body …
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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 Agenda for Peace. SCRAP Weapons is delighted to announce the policy brief has recognised the need for a special session on disarmament (SSOD) at the …
United Nations wants to resurrect a global disarmament mechanism last used in the 1980s Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, SCRAP Weapons Eloisa Romain Project Coordinator, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally published on The Conversation on 1st August 2023. In the wake of the Russian invasion and war in Ukraine, the United Nations (UN) appears to be preparing to resurrect …
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The Disarming of Iraq: What went wrong and what went right Henrietta Wilson Senior Analyst, SCRAP Weapons On the night of Sept. 25, 1991, Chief Inspector David Kay and his deputy, Robert Galluci, had a strange request for a group of Iraqis who were stopping them from leaving a car park. If you’re going to …
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For the first time, an international legal instrument on nuclear weapons recognizes the disproportionate impact on both women and indigenous people.
Courage is needed to seek and introduce women’s perspectives in disarmament since such revision will alter how arms control is perceived and developed.
Critically, the modernization of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)- counter opposing forces designed to destroy incoming missiles- poses a further destabilising threat to strategic stability.
Whilst key individuals and groups of women have had tremendous impact around the world there is still a disproportionate lack of female representation within society