Ploughshares Monitor articles from March 1997

Ploughshares Monitor archives from March 1997

A new course for Canada: on MArch 18th, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade began a review of Canada's nuclear arms control and disarmament policies.
March 1, 1997... On March 18th, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade began a review of Canada's nuclear arms control and disarmament policies. The following statement was presented to the committee by former Canadian Ambassador for...

Reviewing Canada's voting record: UN General Assembly on nuclear weapons.
March 1, 1997... Among the customary set of wide-ranging disarmament resolutions debated and voted at the United Nations during 1996, seven dealt explicitly with the issue of nuclear disarmament. One of these, introduced by Malaysia with 45 co-sponsors,...

Getting down to business: on 31 January 1997, the Canadian Conference on Humanitarian Demining and Landmine Victim Assistance ... took place in Winnipeg.
March 1, 1997... On 31 January 1997, the Canadian Conference on Humanitarian Demining and Landmine Victim Assistance -- organized by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as part of the Canadian government effort to build support for an...

1997 armed conflicts report: conflicts decline in 1996.
March 1, 1997... Worldwide, there was a measurable decline in armed conflict (1) during 1996. While almost one in five countries in the world continued to experience the trauma and tragedy of war, the actual numbers were down to 41 conflicts in 35 countries...

Towards the twenty-first century: the following article is excerpted from and address by former OXFAM National Secretary John Foster.
March 1, 1997... The following article is excerpted from an address by former OXFAM National Secretary John Foster to the Ploughshares 20th Anniversary Conference in October 1996. In his epic history of the "Short Twentieth Century," the Age of Extremes,...

Fighting for survival: Environmental decline, social conflict, and the new age of insecurity.
March 1, 1997... Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity, Michael Renner, W.W. Norton, New York, 1996, 240 pp., $13.99. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, security policy makers finally have been able to...

Foreign aid and military spending: military spending has dropped significantly in recent years in the North and the South, but in both regions it remains far too high...
March 1, 1997... Demilitarization is on the international political agenda. Whether from the perspective of northern donor governments interested in the efficient management of dwindling development assistance funds or southern governments and NGOs faced with...