Archive » Tag: Disarmament
Tony Blair: “the lies, deceits, duplicities and fudges”
July 21, 2016
Philippe Sands is professor of law at UCL and a barrister at Matrix Chambers. His review of the Report of the Iraq Inquiry by John Chilcot appears in the latest issue of the London Review of Books. See: A Grand and Disastrous Deceit (LRB, Vol. 38 No.15, 28 July 2016).* Professor Sands introduces the 12-volume, […]
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Call to Action by Five Former Canadian Disarmament Ambassadors
June 21, 2016
In a Commentary in today’s Ottawa Citizen, Five former Canadian Ambassadors for Disarmament, Douglas Roche, Peggy Mason, Chris Westdal, Paul Meyer and Marius Grinius, under four different Prime Ministers, outline what Canada can do to help eliminate nuclear weapons. How did the world move from the “downward” trend of nuclear weapons [in the 1990s] to […]
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RI President, Peggy Mason on Historic Iran Nuclear Deal
July 14, 2015
I am writing this blog not only as RI President, but as a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament to the United Nations. I had much direct experience of negotiations with Iran, in the context of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review process and in many other arms control negotiations at the UN. Of course that was […]
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What remains unlearned from the First World War
August 26, 2014
Originally published in Embassy August 26, 2014. Perspectives of peace advocates, other civil society groups and women were dismissed at the time and continue to be under-represented in mainstream histories.
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