Ploughshares Monitor articles

Recent articles from Ploughshares Monitor

Rethinking NATO's strategic concept: building on the emerging nuclear abolition imperative.
March 22, 2009... While Afghanistan will certainly dominate the talk at the 60th-anniversary summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1) (NATO or the Alliance) in April, leaders are also scheduled to launch a process to review the Alliance's Strategic Concept, a key element of which is a controversial...

Meet our Caribbean partner: the Women's Institute for Alternative Development.
March 22, 2009... Annual murder rates in the Caribbean--at 30 per 100,000 inhabitants--are higher than in any other region of the world. The Women's Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) in Trinidad and Tobago, a longtime partner of Project Ploughshares, has been a vigorous campaigner against gun...

In memoriam.(Obituary)
March 22, 2009... With the sudden death in February of Colonel (Rtd) Douglas A. Fraser the Canadian and international disarmament and peacebuilding communities have lost a valued friend and dedicated champion. A person of quiet strength and unswerving commitment, Doug was deeply involved in disarmament and war...

The State of World Population 2008: Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights.(Book Notices)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The State of World Population 2008: Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights by UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), 100 pages, paperback, online at http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2008/en/index.html. Development strategies that are sensitive to...

Small Arms Proliferation and Misuse: Toward a Caribbean Plan of Action.(New Publication)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Small Arms Proliferation and Misuse: Toward a Caribbean Plan of Action (Ploughshares Working Paper 08-1), a joint publication of the Women's Institute for Alternative Development and Project Ploughshares (35 pages), published December 2008. This is a revision...