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 …
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Faslane Blockaded!
Krista reported that the Faslane Base, home port of the UK nuclear weapons system (Trident), was fully blockaded by non violent activists this morning. Following Saturday’s demonstration which filled George …
Protest against Trident: will Scotland vote to be a nuclear weapon free independent country?
Thousands of people were rallying on the streets of Glasgow to scrap Trident, No Nukes Team Member Krista van Velzen being one of them. Below you’ll find a short report …
Newsletter April: Hope, student diplomacy, and recommendations to get rid of nuclear weapons
Do you want to know what IKV Pax Christi’s No Nukes Team has been doing lately? Read in our latest newsletter (see below) what we have been doing in Oslo and in …
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 …
NPDI Meets in the Hague
Today, 9 April 2013, the ten members of the Non Proliferation Disarmament Initiative held their sixth ministerial meeting in the Hague. The statement issued from the meeting outlined the group’s …
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 …