Ploughshares Monitor articles from March 2000

Ploughshares Monitor archives from March 2000

Canadian corporate responsibility and the war in Sudan.
March 1, 2000... As long as the oil flows in Sudan and a Canadian company is involved, we must encourage Talisman to mitigate the negative consequences of the oil operations and meet its moral and legal obligations. The operations of a Canadian oil...

IGAD peace process (Africa's Inter-governmental Authority on Development coordinates efforts to end the war in Sudan).
March 1, 2000... The peace talks between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A)are carried out under the auspices of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The IGAD was founded in Djibouti in 1986 by...

1998 arms exports reach post-Cold War high.
March 1, 2000... In a world where arms trade details are the exception, the Canadian standard of transparency is one of the best, even if some states report trade details that Canada does not. While Canadian military sales to Africa and the Middle East...

2000 Armed Conflicts Report.
March 1, 2000... Perhaps the most significant change occurred in the Horn of Africa with the Eritrea/Ethiopia war, the first international war since the 1991 Gulf War. After three years of steady decline, the number of wars fought worldwide increased...

National governments ban use of child fighters.
March 1, 2000... Recently the world's governments agreed not to recruit or deploy children under the age of 18 in armed conflict. Following six years of negotiations, agreement was reached by consensus January 21, 2000 in Geneva on raising the minimum age for...

Heart of the matter: Sierra Leone, diamonds and human security.
March 1, 2000... Introduction Diamonds have been the cause of widespread death, destruction and misery for almost a decade in the small West African country of Sierra Leone. Through the 1990s, Sierra Leone's rebel war became a tragedy of major...

Analysis and perspectives on the humanitarian disaster in Iraq: 1990-2000.
March 1, 2000... The UN sanctions on Iraq are the most draconian in modern history. Will they help to end the human rights abuses of the Iraqi government or only further punish the Iraqi people already burdened by an oppressive state? It seems obvious that...

Arms embargoes: making sanctions smarter.
March 1, 2000... Sanctions are a way for a country or a group of countries to signal disapproval of action taken by a state (or a group within a state) considered to pose a threat to international peace and security. Traditionally sanctions have been applied in...

Show boats to China (Canadian warships are to visit ports on the Pacific Rim).
March 1, 2000... Two of Canada's warships will visit Pacific Rim ports again this spring, in large part to promote Canadian naval equipment to military buyers in the region. The website of the Canadian Defence Industries Association reports that the HMCS...

NATO nuclear sharing (nine sites in Europe are used to store U.S. nuclear weapons).
March 1, 2000... At the height of the Cold War, the number of US nuclear weapons stored in Europe exceeded 7,000. The withdrawal of most US nuclear weapons following the end of the Cold War led to the closing of all but 13 of the US nuclear weapons storage...

East Africa set to act on small arms problem.
March 1, 2000... East African governments met in Nairobi in mid-March to plan a coordinated response to the growing problems related to small arms in the region. The conference declaration said "the proliferation of illicit small arms and light weapons in the...

Development and security (Project Ploughshares organizes discussions on demilitarization).
March 1, 2000... Because the human security agenda combines the goals of demilitarization and human development, the often separate programs of the peace and development communities would benefit from closer cooperation. These were the key conclusions to emerge...

Just say No to missile defence (U.S. intentions to deploy a shield against nuclear weapons signal withdrawal from disarmament negotiation).
March 1, 2000... The United States is scheduled to make a decision on the deployment of a limited National Missile Defence system by the end of this year. Canada is coming under strong pressure to join the US in operating this system if the US does decide to...