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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Fear of war looms in the background of the latest round of presidential meetings. At a time when Stanley Kubrick’s General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove seems an apt description for the behaviour of world leaders…
40 Acts to Save the World: Secretary-General’s Agenda for Disarmament We’ve summarised the Securing Our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament report released last month by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Office for Disarmament Affairs. In the report, Guterres sets out a comprehensive framework for general and complete disarmament that places it at the …
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UN Secretary General Disarmament Report: A Comprehensive Agenda for Disarmament On 24th May, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres released his new agenda for general and complete disarmament at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, which included a plan to control and eliminate weapons of mass destruction, conventional weapons and new battlefield technologies. The report includes …
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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 …