Ploughshares Monitor articles from June 2006

Ploughshares Monitor archives from June 2006

Iran's challenge to the nonproliferation regime.
June 22, 2006... Iran has consistently disavowed an ambition to acquire nuclear weapons, but its clandestine pursuit of technology and materials useful to that end has rightly put its proclamations into question. The prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon, or...

Human Security Report 2005: War and Peace in the 21st Century.(Book Notice)
June 22, 2006... Human Security Report 2005: War and Peace in the 21st Century, by the Human Security Centre, University of British Columbia, publ. by Oxford University Press, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-19-530739-9, 170 pp., paper, US$29.95. Modeled on the...

The Nobel Peace Lecture for 2005.(International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei)(Speech)
June 22, 2006... Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Honourable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The International Atomic Energy Agency and I are humbled, proud, delighted and above all strengthened in our...

Iran beyond fables.
June 22, 2006... Though composed in the fourteenth century, these words of the great Persian poet could easily have been penned in modern times, as a protest against fables that--by deafening the people of one culture to the moral claims of others--prepare the...

The UN conference on a small arms: hopes and fears an interview with Rebecca Peters.(International Action Network on Small Arms , United Nations)(Interview)
June 22, 2006... From 26 June until 7 July, states will gather at the United Nations in New York to review progress that has been made since 2001 in implementing the Programme of Action (PoA) to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and...

Getting back to work? The P6 initiative and informal debates in the Conference on Disarmament.
June 22, 2006... In an unexpected development on 18 May, the US presented to the Conference on Disarmament (CD) a Draft Mandate Text that proposes a way to commence negotiations on the Fissile Material Control Treaty (FMCT). The text was introduced during an...

Global principles for controlling small arms exports.
June 22, 2006... In late June 2006 United Nations member states will gather in New York for the Review Conference of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons (PoA). At the two-week conference states will have the opportunity to assess the...

New publications.(Canada and Small Arms Exports)(Overview of the Challenges to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement)(US Small Arms and Global Transfer Principles)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Overview of the Challenges to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement by Dr. Alfred Lokuji. Paper #1 from Building the Capacity for Sustainable Peace in Sudan, a joint project of Africa Peace Forum and Project Ploughshares. Published February 2006,...

Statement of Darfur adopted by the Board of Project Ploughshares on 29 April 2006.
June 22, 2006... At its semi-annual meeting in Toronto on 28-29 April 2006 the Ploughshares board discussed the ongoing tragedy in the Darfur region of Sudan. At that time a final push was being given to negotiations in Abuja, Nigeria, from African and other...

The 2006 armed conflicts report--preview.
June 22, 2006... During 2005 the world's peoples suffered 32 armed conflicts in 27 states. * Although the total number of armed conflicts was unchanged from 2004, two conflicts came to an end while two others surpassed the threshold of 1,000 direct deaths that...