Ploughshares Monitor articles from June 2005

Ploughshares Monitor archives from June 2005

From abolition to retention? The morning after the failed NPT Review Conference.(2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference)
June 22, 2005... The failure of the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference was as predictable as it is disturbing. There is no doubt that it reflects a dangerous erosion of consensus on one of the most fundamental security challenges of...

Complying with Article VI of the NPT: reports to the Review Conference.(Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons )
June 22, 2005... The multilateral arms control and disarmament regime is, in essence, a set of good faith agreements between states. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), with 1891 states parties, is one such good faith instrument....

Crisis in Sudan: Canadian assistance to Darfur.
June 22, 2005... The crisis in the western Sudan region of Darfur came to public attention in the West in early 2003 when two rebel groups in the region escalated their fight against Sudanese government forces and their Janjaweed allies. In April 2004 a...

The churches and the responsibility to protect.
June 22, 2005... Over the past decade and longer, the international ecumenical community has joined the international political community in engaging the difficult question of the world's collective responsibility to people caught in conditions of extraordinary...

The 2005 armed conflicts report--preview.
June 22, 2005... Although the world endured 32 armed conflicts 1 during 2004, the total was the lowest since Project Ploughshares began monitoring armed conflicts in 1987. At 26, the number of states hosting conflict violence in 2004 was also the lowest of the...

Selected Canadian military export contracts reported during 2004.(Illustration)
June 22, 2005... Overseas contracts during 2004 (non-US) Supplier City/Province Aktelux Mississauga, ON Armatec Survivability London, ON Bell Helicopter Textron Mirabel, QC...

Strategic lift capacity for Canada.(Disaster Assistance Response Team)
June 22, 2005... The Canadian Force's (CF) recent deployment of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to South Asia in the aftermath of the devastating tsunami highlighted Canada's lack of strategic lift capacity. The CF relied upon chartered airlift to...

Ways of seeing a troubled world.(religious, political violence)
June 22, 2005... This article was originally presented as a sermon at Eglinton St. George's United Church, Toronto in January 2005. In the past week while I was mulling over what I might say this morning, I was also involved in an e-mail discussion of a...