Ploughshares Monitor articles from December 2006

Ploughshares Monitor archives from December 2006

Sudan roundtable in Juba.(WORKING for PEACE in SOUTH SUDAN)
December 22, 2006... Since January 2005, when the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended a decades-long conflict between north and south Sudan and instituted an interim arrangement to share power and resources for 6-1/2 years, Sudan has achieved some notable...

Our man in Juba--Lament for the YPI Program: the YPI program cancelled in recent budget cuts was cheap and effective.(WORKING for PEACE in SOUTH SUDAN)(young professionals international program)
December 22, 2006... The air in Juba this past October was thick with humidity and dust. Juba is the administrative capital of South Sudan. A trading site in the middle of a vast emptiness split by the White Nile, it was a garrison town held by the North in the...

The Mediator: Gen. Lazaro Sumbeiywo and the Southern Sudan Peace Process.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Mediator: Gen. Lazaro Sumbeiywo and the Southern Sudan Peace Process by Waithaka Waihenya (foreword by Kenya's second President, H.E. Daniel arap Moi), Kenway Publications, Nairobi, 2006, ISBN 9966-25-480-3, paper, 194 pp. To order from...

Beyond the Three-Block War.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Beyond the Three-Block War, edited by David Rudd, Deborah Bayley, and Ewa K. Petruczynik, Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 2006, ISBN 1-894736-10-9, 122 pp., paper, $30.00. To order, go to https://media4.magma.ca/ www.ciss.ca/order.htm....

Reviving the nuclear disarmament agenda.
December 22, 2006... This article is drawn from a forthcoming joint brief by Veterans Against Nuclear Arms (VANA) and Project Ploughshares. The nuclear threat has not gone the way of the Berlin Wall. In the immediate post-Cold War period there were significant...

Integrating the control of small arms with development programming: a joint project of Project Ploughshares and CIDA.
December 22, 2006... Project Ploughshares has undertaken a joint project with the Policy Branch of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) on the links that connect the control and elimination of small arms and light weapons (SALW) with the creation of...

Missile Defence: Round One.
December 22, 2006... Missile Defence: Round One, by Steven Staples, Lorimer, 2006, ISBN 1550289292, paper, 248 pp., $19.95. In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the US embarked on a mission to resurrect the ballistic missile defence...

US National Space Policy: weaponizing space?(ban on space weapons use)
December 22, 2006... October 4-10 marked World Space Week, designated by the United Nations General Assembly "for the yearly celebration at the international level of the contribution that space science and technology can make to the betterment of the human...

Briefing on the situation in Afghanistan.(military operations and national security)
December 22, 2006... A version of this article was presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in Ottawa on November 8. Introduction: Debating Afghanistan Canadians are deeply ambivalent about...

Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006, ISBN 91-38-22582-4, paper. Electronic copies of this report can be found at www.wmdcommission.org....

Darfur and the responsibility to protect.(crimes against humanity)
December 22, 2006... A parliamentary debate on 3 October 2006 on the situation in Sudan illuminated the difficulties in implementing the international community's growing commitment to protect vulnerable people in Darfur. It also revealed the challenge for Canada...

Fatal Footprint: The Global Human Impact of Cluster Munitions.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Fatal Footprint: The Global Human Impact of Cluster Munitions, Handicap International, November 2006. This report and related documents are available online in various languages at http://www.handicapinternational.be. Fatal Footprint is...

New protocol on ERW becomes law.(Convention, Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War)
December 22, 2006... On 12 November, Protocol V of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons became law. According to Human Rights Watch, in addition to making a state responsible for clearing all explosive remnants of war in territory under its control,...

Warfare or Welfare?: Disarmament for Development in the 21st Century.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Warfare or Welfare? Disarmament for Development in the 21st Century, International Peace Bureau, Geneva, Switzerland, 100 pp. An electronic version of this book can be found by going to http://www.ipb.org/web/...

Strategic Survey 2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Strategic Survey 2006, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 2006, Print ISSN: 0459-7230, Online ISSN: 1476-4997, paper, 392 pp. To order, go to http://www.iiss.org/publications/...

A celebration of 30 years: November 9 & 10 2006.
December 22, 2006... Ambassador Bethuel Kiplagat (l), Executive Director of the Africa Peace Forum, and Ernie Regehr, Senior Policy Advisor and co-founder of Project Ploughshares. Amb. Kiplagat was the featured speaker at the symposium luncheon on November 10. ...