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 Ban Treaty now outlaws nuclear weapons. What now for nuclear armed states and other non-signatories?
Former SCRAP Project Manager David Franco shares his experience with the project. Franco is a alumnus of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London and, former SCRAP Project Co-ordinator from 2011 to 2012. Interview by: Alexandra MacAulay Abdelwahab
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 political mood. Crises and hopes on the Korean peninsula and the NPT talks in Geneva will be followed this month by the UN Secretary General’s new …
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 joint Expert Panel on Disarmament at the Maison de la Paix in Geneva, to debate the different strategic approaches that could be utilised to reintroduce …
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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 Mission of Costa Rica, and co-hosted by Pace University and SCRAP, aimed to provide background and perspective on the concept of “general and complete disarmament” …
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 subject matter, representatives of 146 states and 120 NGOs met February 13-14 at the Mexican coastal resort of Nayarit for the Second Conference on the …