Ploughshares Monitor articles from June 1999

Ploughshares Monitor archives from June 1999

Moral challenge of globalization: globalization is a ... beast, offering unimaginable prosperity ... while doling out misery and despair ...
June 1, 1999... The moral challenge of globalization demands a fundamental change in values, focusing on human security, democracy, and economic justice. By thinking globally and acting collectively, each of us must contribute to building a more compassionate,...

NGOs support Nobel laureates' code of conduct.
June 1, 1999... The 1997 International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers of the Nobel peace laureates arose from earlier arms trade Code of Conduct proposals by parliamentarians and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In the US and Europe especially, NGOs...

Human security and an arms trade code of conduct: Canada's existing export control guidelines make no reference to democratic rights ...
June 1, 1999... The International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers proposed by Nobel Peace laureates led by former Costa Rican president Oscar Arias provides an exemplary set of principles for Canada and like-minded countries to collectively bring some real...

Human security and military procurement: there is an urgent requirement for careful ... pursuit of human security beyond Canada's borders.
June 1, 1999... [Part 1 of 3] SPOTLIGHT ON CANADIAN MILITARY EXPORTS Selected overseas (non-US) Canadian military export contracts reported during 1998 Supplier City, Province Atlantis Aerospace Corp...

"Illegal" program ruling may boost military support (a World Trade Organization decision could lead to government aid for defence programs).
June 1, 1999... A recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling against a Canadian industrial program may encourage greater government support for military programs. In March the WTO ruled that support to the aerospace industry provided by Technology...

Nuclear policy statement released: the new policy places one foot on the solid shore of nuclear disarmament ... but leaves the other stranded ...
June 1, 1999... The Canadian government's new nuclear weapons policy takes some significant steps in the direction the anti-nuclear movement has been recommending, but it also remains disappointingly mired in the nuclear theology of the NATO Alliance. The...

Excerpts from the alliance's strategic concept (Canada's defence policy is linked with NATO's objectives).
June 1, 1999... Characteristics of Nuclear Forces 62. The fundamental purpose of the nuclear forces of the Allies is political: to preserve peace and prevent coercion and any kind of war. They will continue to fulfil an essential role by ensuring...

NPT PrepComm agrees to disagree: "each of the parties to the treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations ...relating to ... nuclear disarmament --".
June 1, 1999... By Senator Douglas Roche, O.C. A total collapse was averted, but the outcome of the 1999 PrepComm was but a thin cover over the deadlock persisting between the Western Nuclear Weapons States and the leading Non-Nuclear Weapons States. Given...

First Landmine Monitor Report released.
June 1, 1999... The result of a major international collaborative effort, the Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-Free World was released in May in Maputo, Mozambique. The massive, 1100-page document represents an unprecedented initiative by the Nobel...

To walk without fear: the global movement to ban landmines.
June 1, 1999... edited by Maxwell A. Cameron, Robert J. Lawson, and Brian W. Tomlin, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1998, 491 pages, $29.95 One of the key strengths of the global movement to ban landmines has been its ability to quickly generate and...