NPDI matters?
(Published 23 April): The Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI) will hold a side event today at 13.15 in the Assembly Hall. The group of ten countries has submitted several working …
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Abolishing nuclear weapons: campaigning in Geneva
ICAN: not the latest Apple gadget, but an abbreviation for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons. ICAN is a network of NGOs focused on the fight against atomic bombs. …
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What to do when the world runs out of options?
Tucked away behind the dunes, flanked by the sea and tulip fields, is Petten’s Nuclear Research Location. This Research Location is home to the High Flux Reactor, a nuclear research …
US- Japan Security Cooperation
I’m still in Nagasaki, thinking about the US- Japan “security” relationship. Specifically, my attention was drawn to the 3 October Joint Statement of the Security Consultative Committee: Toward a More Robust Alliance …
Blazing the trail…?
For our third workshop in the crash course lobbying against nuclear weapons by IKV Pax Christi, we paid a visit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss Dutch policy-making …
‘Every summer the forests of Chernobyl catch fire’
As the Nuclear Diplomacy Crash Course students of 2013 ventured into the second workshop at their homebase, IKV Pax Christi, a lot more became clear on their mission in Geneva. …
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Nuclear warfare: a computer game or a realistic scenario?
Working with IKV Pax Christi I have to walk through ‘the mall’ to get to our office. The mall as in Hoog Catharijne, a maze of indoor streets that lead …
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NPDI Matters
As the April Ministerial meeting of the Non Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI) will convene in The Hague, the Netherlands, the Dutch Peace and Security Organisation IKV Pax Christi took …
To go, or not to go nuclear: that’s the question
Why do States wish for nuclear weapons, or not? What are the aims, motivations and incentives to create and maintain such weapons of mass destruction? Do nuclear weapons create security? …
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To go, or not to go nuclear: that’s the question
Why do States wish for nuclear weapons, or not? What are the aims, motivations and incentives to create and maintain such weapons of mass destruction? Do nuclear weapons create security? …
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