Ploughshares Monitor articles from December 2008

Ploughshares Monitor archives from December 2008

Advancing development while reducing violence: lesson from the field.
December 22, 2008... Living free from the threat of armed violence is a basic human need. It is a precondition for human development, dignity and well-being. --The Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, June 2006 Over 90 countries have...

Peace unsigned: the LRA guarantee for the peace dividend in northern Uganda.
December 22, 2008... Whoever manages to get to this man, tell him that this is the last time I am trying to meet him. It should not be me to ask for a meeting with him. I do not need a meeting with him; it is him who needs a meeting with me. If he wants help, we...

A call for Canadian support for peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
December 22, 2008... On November 4, KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives issued an appeal to the Canadian Government to work for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On November 12, the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC)...

Arms trade treaty: stumbling but then a step forward in 2008.
December 22, 2008... AUN experts group report on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATF) in 2008 was disappointing. Yet a broadly supported UN resolution late in the year should advance ATF negotiations in 2009 if civil society organizations and supportive states like Canada...

Nuclear weapons at the UN: Canada as bridge builder?
December 22, 2008... This year the United Nations First Committee met from October 6 to November 4. A specialized committee of the General Assembly, it is tasked with discussing issues related to international peace, security, and disarmament, and generating...

The United Nations and security in a nuclear-weapon-free world.
December 22, 2008... Today, there is support throughout the world for the view that nuclear weapons should never again be used because of their indiscriminate effects, their impact on the environment and their profound implications for regional and global security....

The multilateralization of the nuclear fuel cycle.
December 22, 2008... On December 8, 1953, US President Dwight Eisenhower stood before the United Nations and described "the fearful atomic dilemma" that faced the world, pledging that the United States would seek "the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of...

Obama on nuclear disarmament.
December 22, 2008... The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States offers genuine hope that real change is in the offing for US approaches to nuclear weapons and the treaties and agreements that are intended to control and eventually eliminate...

Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East.
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East by Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008, 303 pages, ISBN 9781588265692, cloth $65.00US. Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East begins with...

A Nation without Guns? The Story of Gun Free South Africa.
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Nation without Guns? The Story of Gun Free South Africa by Adele Kirsten, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-86914-135-6, paperback, 244 pages, $38.95. A Nation without Guns? shows how Gun Free...

A common priority: a space security policy for Canada.
December 22, 2008... On October 14 a new minority. Conservative government was elected. To achieve a constructive agenda for Parliament it becomes important to identify policy priorities that could gain the support of all political parties. One area of concern,...

In Afghanistan: Transition under Threat.
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Afghanistan: Transition under Threat edited by Geoffrey Hayes and Mark Sedra, Centre for International Governance Innovation and Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2008, 309 pages, ISBN 9781554580118, paperback, $29.95. In...

Reykjavik Revisited: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons.
December 22, 2008... Reykjavik Revisited: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, edited by George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell, and James E. Goodby, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2008. To download the PDF, go to http://www....

Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North.
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North by Ken S. Coates, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, William R. Morrison, and Greg Poelzer, Thomas Allen Publishers, 2008, 336 pages, ISBN-13 9780887623554, cloth $29.95. A...