Ploughshares Monitor articles from June 2000

Ploughshares Monitor archives from June 2000

Ballistic missle defence: questions for Canadians.
June 1, 2000... Canadians can never be immune to the political controversies that regularly engulf the United States, but our stake in the current American debate over whether to deploy a National Missile Defence (NMD) system goes well beyond our usual...

Unequivocal landmark: the 2000 Review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, April 24 - May 20, 2000.
June 1, 2000... The 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (April 24-May 20) took a big step forward through securing from the Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) "an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals." For...

Resources, greed, and the persistence of violent conflict.
June 1, 2000... To prevent and resolve violent conflict we must understand the sources and logic of war. Two schools of thought currently dominate thinking on the causes of contemporary conflict. The first sees violence as a response to a range of grievances...

G8 and conflict prevention: turning declarations into action.
June 1, 2000... G8(1) and conflict prevention is a document prepared by staff at Saferworld and International Alert for the European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation and has been endorsed by 52 organizations working in the conflict...

Bosnia-Herzegovina - attaining human security.
June 1, 2000... As part of an ongoing exploration of the relevance of human security doctrine and values to Canadian defence policy and planning, Project Ploughshares has sought to engage Defence and Foreign Affairs officials, members of the strategic affairs...