Ploughshares Monitor articles from March 2001

Ploughshares Monitor archives from March 2001

Missile proliferation, glabalized insecurity, and demand-side strategies.
March 1, 2001... Only through collective international attention to the political and security issues that generate proliferation pressures can the threat animating HMD interests be successfully addressed. For the moment, demand for weapons of mass...

Canada's votinq record at the UN First Committee.(United nations)
March 1, 2001... By attaching itself to the Hew Agenda -- and assuming the NA maintains its adroit and dextrous Leadership -- Canada can contribute to nuclear disarmament in substantive ways. Canada took an important step forward in nuclear disarmament at...

NATO nuclear review endorses status quo.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
March 1, 2001... With the US election now over, the coming year or two will be a good time for NATO members to rethink their vision of the appropriate direction for nuclear policies. NATO Foreign Ministers met in Brussels in December 2000 and approved the...

Statement on nuclear disarmament. NATO policy and the churches.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
March 1, 2001... The following is a major new policy statement on nuclear weapons by the World Council of Churches (WCC). In addition to calling on NATO to affirm support for the "rapid global elimination of nuclear weapons" and to take interim measures on...

The Horn of Africa: building sustainable security in a fragile region.
March 1, 2001... The Horn will be best served by a strategy of sustainable security which embraces the safety of people, goad governance, security sector reform, and sustained dialogue. Since 1994 Project Ploughshares has been engaged in a number of peace...

Towards a global small arms "programme of action".
March 1, 2001... The small arms problem will not be effectively addressed without sustained attention to the conditions that generate the demand for weapons. Ernie Regehr represented Project Ploughshares at the United Nations small arms Preparatory...

NETWORK NEWS.
March 1, 2001... Ploughshares community groups Marking ten years since the start of the Gulf War on January 16, 2001, local groups in Edmonton and Peterborough (Kawartha Ploughshares) participated in events with churches and other groups to call for an end...

Peace is Possible.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Peace is Possible, edited by Fredrik S. Heffermehl, 2000, Geneva: International Peace Bureau, Switzerland, US $20. Order from www.ipb.org. We use too much energy to convince the already converted with information that is not very...

Canada should not support missile defense.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The new administration of US President George W. Bush has entered office with a strong commitment to deploying a "robust" National Missile Defense (NMD) system. Canada is under pressure to join the United States in operating this system if the...

Reimagining the future: towards democratic governance.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Reimagining the future: towards democratic governance, a report of the Global Governance Reform Project, 2000, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, 124 pp., $13 US. Project directors and sponsoring institutions: Joseph A....

Petrotyranny.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Petrotyranny by John Bacher, Science for Peace, Dundurn, 2000, 344 pp., $27.99. Foreword by David Suzuki. Petrotyranny is about freedom versus oppression, democracy versus dictatorship. It is about human rights and the role played by oil...

Silent Revolution: The Role of Community Development in Reducing the Demand for Small Arms.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Silent Revolution: The Role of Community Development in Reducing the Demand for Small Arms by Tibebe Eshete and Siobhan O'Reilly-Calthrop, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland: Working Paper No. 3, World Vision International, 97 pp. (Available from World...