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Civil society conference offers practical way forward on nuclear disarmament
October 3, 2017
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. — General Omar Bradley, 1948. From Friday, September 22nd to Saturday, September 23rd, this year’s Group of 78 Annual Policy […]
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Canada foot-dragging on nuclear disarmament
June 5, 2017
In a 31 May article in the Hill Times, former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament Douglas Roche castigates the Canadian government for continuing to drag its feet on nuclear disarmament, even as over 130 UN member states are in the midst of negotiating a legally binding treaty to ban nuclear weapons. For a subscriber link to […]
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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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Defence policy review misses big picture
May 24, 2016
Paul Meyer, a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament, is now a Senior Fellow in Space Security and Nuclear Disarmament at the Simons Foundation. In his recent article, Defence policy review too narrow on cyber, space (The Hill Times, 18 May 2016), he demonstrates how our defence review is being dangerously skewed by the lack of […]
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