Ploughshares Monitor articles from September 1998

Ploughshares Monitor archives from September 1998

Challenges of leadership (Canada again elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council).
September 1, 1998... Canadian multilateralism received a welcome boost when Canada was again elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council. A middle power sharing the better part of a continent with a decidedly big and sometimes contrary power, Canada will...

Responding to terrorism.
September 1, 1998... In August 1998 the United States offered cruise missile attacks on targets in Afghanistan and Sudan as its primary political response to the heinous criminal acts that, two weeks earlier, had killed 263 people and injured more than 5,000 in...

Growing reality of security-for-profit.
September 1, 1998... Earlier this year, Canadians were treated to a glimpse of a new reality in the business of security, and how it has, in many instances, indeed become a business. A former general officer in the Canadian Armed forces publicly made the case...

Countermeasure systems for Turkish helicopters: spotlight on Canadian military exports.
September 1, 1998... The Deal Davis Engineering of Ottawa will supply 159 infrared countermeasure systems for the Turkish Army's UH-1H, AB-205, and AB-212 utility helicopters. The contract, worth more than $12 million, will add to almost $125 million in...

Asleep at the table (aerospace defence co-operation with the U.S.).
September 1, 1998... US Space Command is promoting a Long Range Plan that would have profound implications for Canada's aerospace defence co-operation with the United States through the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). The Canadian government...

Pentagon pollution (US lawmakers want exemption for US military operations from the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions).
September 1, 1998... Fresh on the heels of US government attempts to exclude the Pentagon from parts of the Ottawa Landmines Treaty, US lawmakers have moved to exempt US military operations from the international Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....

Nuclear weapons and Canada.
September 1, 1998... The question of what to do about nuclear weapons is increasingly on the international agenda. In this report, an updated version of Project Ploughshares' February 1998 submission to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International...

Roundtables call for action (excerpt from Report of Discussions with Community Leaders across Canada on topic of nuclear weapons).
September 1, 1998... For the second time, September 8-26, 1998, Project Ploughshares conducted a series of Roundtables on the subject of nuclear weapons for community leaders and interested citizens across Canada. The first such exercise, in 1996, produced a...

International action network established (controlling small arms).
September 1, 1998... In August 1998, 45 individuals representing 33 organizations from 18 countries (8 northern and 10 southern) met for three days at Lake Couchiching near Orillia, Ontario to explore ways in which civil society groups and institutions around the...

Ploughing ahead.
September 1, 1998... to plough ahead Informal To undertake vigorously to accomplish, finish or solve (a piece of work, problem, etc.) Ploughshares' community groups First, a huge thank you to all those who worked through the past summer to organize the...

20-minute peace workout: nuclear weapons in South Asia.
September 1, 1998... The topic for fall 1998 Nuclear weapons in South Asia The nuclear weapons tests conducted by India and subsequently Pakistan in May sent shockwaves around the world. It had long been known that India and Pakistan possessed embryonic...