Ploughshares Monitor articles from December 2007

Ploughshares Monitor archives from December 2007

Uganda--Lord's resistance army peace negotiations: addressing dead ends in a maze.
December 22, 2007... Project Ploughshares continues its peacebuilding work with the Africa Peace Forum through policy development projects on the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in Sudan and the creation of a peace and security...

Canadian engines power Chinese military aircraft.
December 22, 2007... The use of aircraft engines built by Montreal-based Pratt and Whitney Canada (PWC) in Chinese attack helicopters and other military aircraft reveals flaws in Canada's export control regulations. Canada may be politically committed to more...

SIPRI Yearbook 2007: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.
December 22, 2007... SIPRI Yearbook 2007: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, publ. Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-923021-1, cloth, 752 pp. For information on ordering, go to...

Twenty years of Ploughshares' Armed Conflicts Reports: 1987-2007.
December 22, 2007... In 1987 Project Ploughshares began documenting major armed conflicts with the publication of the first armed conflicts map in The Ploughshares Monitor. For the past 20 years the annual map and related information have informed people around the...

Balancing security and politics in Darfur.
December 22, 2007... The international community has acted to substantially improve the political and security situation in Darfur. United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1769 (2007a), passed in July 2007, mandated a new hybrid UN-African Union...

In memoriam.(Obituary)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In mid-October, Dr. Randall (Randy) Forsberg died in Brooklyn, New York. The Executive Director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies and the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International and...

Nuclear disarmament or nuclear ambivalence?
December 22, 2007... Global Public Opinion on Nuclear Weapons, a new public opinion survey of six key states, reveals a challenging ambivalence toward nuclear weapons: it seems that people in nuclear weapon states think that these weapons make the world more...

Canada hosts international meeting on small arms transfer principles.(Conference news)
December 22, 2007... Despite a difficult gestation, a Canadian-sponsored international meeting on global principles for small arms transfers, held in Geneva in August, proved to be a successful exchange among states, multilateral agencies, and civil society groups,...

Failed states and the limits to force: the challenge of Afghanistan.(Excerpt)
December 22, 2007... In Ottawa on 1 November 2007, the North-South Institute launched the tenth edition of the Canadian Development Report, Fragile States or Failing Development? with a public panel. One of the panelists was Ernie Regehr of Project Ploughshares,...

Canadian Development Report 2008: Fragile States or Failing Development?(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Canadian Development Report 2008: Fragile States or Failing Development? edited by the North-South Institute. 2007, ISBN 9781897358009, paper, 138 pp., $35.00. The four chapters in Fragile States or Failing...

Strategic Survey 2007: The Annual Review of World Affairs.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Strategic Survey 2007: The Annual Review of World Affairs by The International Institute for Strategic Studies, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85743-438-5, paper, 420 pp. To order, go to...

Global Conscience.
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Global Conscience by Douglas Roche, O.C., Novalis, 2007, ISBN 9782895079088, paper, 208 pp., $19.95. Global Conscience contains 30 international case studies that illustrate "the interplay of public policy and...

The independent panel on Canada's future role in Afghanistan.
December 22, 2007... In keeping with his spring statement that a new consensus among Canadians and in Parliament was needed on Canada's role in Afghanistan (see Siebert 2007), Prime Minister Harper announced on 12 October 2007 the creation of the Independent Panel...

The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar by Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang, Viking Canada, 2007, ISBN 9780670067220, cloth, 304 pp., $35. The Unexpected War argues that Canada's various military missions in...

Security Threats to CPA Implementation in Sudan.(New Publication)
December 22, 2007... Security Threats to CPA Implementation in Sudan This joint publication of Africa Peace Forum and Project Ploughshares presents three commissioned papers that were prepared for a May 2007 workshop in Juba, held in support of the Building...

In the news.(Brief article)
December 22, 2007... On 29, 30, and 31 October CBC Radio News broadcast an in-depth report called "Arming the World" by Margo Kelly. Featured were quotes from Ken Epps and Ernie Regehr of Project Ploughshares. The CBC News investigation team found that...