Ploughshares Monitor articles from March 2002

Ploughshares Monitor archives from March 2002

Reframing the intervention debate: a responsibility to protect.
March 22, 2002... By reframing the debate the International Commission on State Sovereighty and Intervention offers a clear path for the international community to follow in the face of humanitarian crises. In the wake at the crises in Bosnia and Somalia in...

Nuclear disarmament and the UN General Assembly.(conferences)
March 22, 2002... The 56th session of the UN General Assembly (GA), scheduled to meet from September 12-21, was postponed due to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC. When the session did open in October, discussions on all fronts were influenced...

Deliberations suspended at BTWC Conference.(Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention )(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... In a down-to-the-wire decision that left many delegates frustrated and angry, deliberations at the Fifth Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) were suspended on the final day of the meeting, to be reconvened...

Getting serious about the ballistic missile threat: the threat to use missiles to deliver weapons of mass destruction is evil, no matter who does the threatening.
March 22, 2002... North America, like the rest of the world, faces serious ballistic missile threats and our governments have a duty to try to offer us some protection. Any "homeland security" policy worth its name should obviously make the homeland safer, so...

Now is the time for Canada to resist US nuclear planning: in pursuing NMD, the US could provoke renewed proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.
March 22, 2002... Washington's active exploration of ways and occasions to use nuclear weapons, as set out in the recently leaked January 2002 US "Nuclear Posture Review" (NPR), stands in stark, opposite contrast to Canada's own version of a "nuclear posture"...

The 2002 Armed Conflicts Report.
March 22, 2002... The year 2001 witnessed a 10 percent decline in armed conflicts (1) worldwide, dropping from 40 such conflicts in 35 countries in 2000, to 36 conflicts in 30 countries in 2001. While it is very difficult to measure the intensity of conflicts, a...

Followup to the 2001 UN conference on small arms and light weapons.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... In July 2001, the UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects resulted in the adoption, by consensus, of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and...

Canadian military exports 2000: closer adherence to existing control guidelines would have precluded arms shipments to at least six countries that received arms from Canada in 2000.
March 22, 2002... The release of the Canadian government's Annual Report on the Export of Military Goods from Canada affords an annual opportunity to review the volume and nature of Canada's reported military exports and the extent to which the trade is revealed...

US imposes improvements to Canadian arm export controls.
March 22, 2002... Canadian legislative changes prompted by the removal of ITAR exemptions represent real improvements but fall short of advancing the human security standards at the centre of Canadian foreign policy. In April 2001 the federal government...

ABM Treaty update.(Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... On December 13, 2001 President George Bush announced the intention of the United States to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. in making this announcement, President Bush provided Russia with the required six-months notice to...

Building peace and preventing war - celebrating 25 years of commitment.(Project Ploughshares )(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... On March 23 more than 450 people joined with the past and present staff and board of Project Ploughshares to celebrate 25 years of working to achieve a peaceful world. The event was held in Waterloo, Ontario at The Cedars, a worship centre...

Ploughshares community groups. (Network News).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Congratulations to Joanna Miller of Ploughshares Saskatoon who has been awarded a 2002 Global Citizens Award by the Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation. Joanna has long been concerned about the inequities and suffering in the...

Staff activities. (Network News).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... On January 1, Larissa Fast joined the staff of Project Ploughshares as a half-time Program Associate. Larissa is a graduate of Bethel College (BA History) and the University of Notre Dame (MA International Peace Studies), and is a PhD candidate...