Ploughshares Monitor articles from September 2005

Ploughshares Monitor archives from September 2005

A word from the Executive Director.
September 22, 2005... Welcome to the first issue of The Ploughshares Monitor with the second Executive Director in the organization's history. I am pleased to be joining Project Ploughshares, an organization that has developed into a well respected voice in the...

Nuclear cooperation with India: a further threat to nuclear nonproliferation.
September 22, 2005... The international community has overwhelmingly rejected trade in nuclear materials and technology with India ever since the latter conducted a series of nuclear test explosions in 1998. That position of fundamental principle is now under...

New Ploughshares Working Paper.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Working Paper 05-5--The Responsibility to Protect: East, West, and Southern African Perspectiveds on Preventing and Responding to Humanitarian Crises by principal author Greg Puley. First published September 2005. This paper, produced...

A step in the right direction: the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.
September 22, 2005... The insecurity of Russia's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse has become a cause for international concern, particularly since 9/11. There are stories of nuclear-powered submarines rusting in...

Canada ranked 6th largest weapons exporter in 2004.
September 22, 2005... Canada has been ranked as the sixth largest global arms exporter in 2004 by two well-known and respected monitoring agencies, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (2005, p. 453) and the Washington-based Congressional...

Acronyms and abbreviations.(Illustration)
September 22, 2005... Acronyms and Abbreviations AMIS African Union Mission in Sudan AU African Union AXO Abandoned explosive ordnance BMS Biennial Meeting of States BMS2 Second Biennial Meeting of States CASA ...

Civil society efforts make impact; The 2005 UN Biennial Meeting of States on small arms and light weapons.
September 22, 2005... It has been four years since the United Nations member states first met to discuss small arms and light weapons. That meeting in 2001, the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects,...

Protecting the vulnerable: the World Summit took a first step.
September 22, 2005... One of the widely declared successes of the September World Summit at the United Nations was the leaders' endorsement of the doctrine of "the responsibility to protect" (R2P). Because the Summit failed so spectacularly on other key issues,...

Canadian Forces international operations: 2001-2005.
September 22, 2005... Peacekeeping is an important aspect of Canada's national heritage and a reflection of our fundamental beliefs.... Peacekeeping is also a significant component of Canada's foreign policy and our contribution to the multilateral security system....

Explosive remnants of war and mines other than anti-personnel mines: Global survey 2003-2004.(Book Notices)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Explosive remnants of war and mines other than antipersonnel mines: Global survey 2003-2004, a project of Landmine Action (UK), Actiongroup Landmine.de, and Mines Action Canada, publ. by Landmine Action, 2005, ISBN 0-9536717-9-8, 192 pp....

Strategic Survey 2004/5: An evaluation and forecast of world affairs.(Book Notices)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Strategic Survey 2004/5: An evaluation and forecast of world affairs, The International Institute for Strategic Studies, publ. by Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-37394-8, 384 pp., order information available at http://www.iiss.org/showpage....

Participants in Project Ploughshares' 2005-2006 Young Professionals International program.
September 22, 2005... Again this year Ploughshares has placed 10 young people with peace and security organizations at home and abroad, as part of Foreign Affairs Canada's Young Professionals International program, which is funded by the Government of Canada. These...