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Can we give meaning to Syria’s destruction?

Five years ago In 2012 when it all started, an educated conflict analyst or otherwise conflict competent person would have said about the conflict in Syria that it was a very complex thing, caused by history, environment, traumas, external factors,…

The Koreas: Negotiations on Negotiations Redux

Negotiations on Negotiations Redux by Stephan Haggard | February 23rd, 2016 From: The Peterson Institute for International Economics  The North Korea community has been stirred up over a piece by Alastair Gale and Carol Lee at the Wall Street Journal. The…

All states are legally required to pursue negotiations “in good faith” for nuclear disarmament

As meetings continue at the Open-Ended Working Group in Geneva, Switzerland which has convened to advance in measures for nuclear disarmament, civil society organisations and campaigns have the chance to contribute.  ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), of…

Kofi Annan opens nuclear talks – delegations express cautious optimism

Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, kicked off the UN Open Ended Working Group on Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations (OEWG) yesterday (Monday Feb 22) with a speech of encouragement and optimism. He lamented that nations, until…

Conflict & Peace, Which Way Should We Choose?

Seoul, South Korea – Amid rising concerns of peace and security on the Korean Peninsula from the recent nuclear tests and satellite launch by North Korea, the organisation Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) hosted a peace forum,…

Nuclear disarmament: Nations urged to not repeat the mistakes of the last 40 years

Today, in Geneva, Switzerland, talks start to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations for the achievement and maintenance of a world without nuclear weapons.  Despite the absence of the permanent 5 members of the UN Security Council – those countries…

Stigmatize and prohibit: New UN talks on nuclear weapons start today

When North Korea tested a nuclear weapon in January, condemnation from all around the world flowed within minutes. A week later, the United States carried out a mock nuclear weapons test of a new type of “more usable” warhead in…

(Liberated) Afghanistan Re-Commits to Ending Children Recruitment in Security Forces

Human Wrongs Watch 19 February 2016 – Following a mission to Afghanistan, the United Nations envoy dealing with children and armed conflict issues, has welcomed the Government’s recommitment to fully implementing its plan to end and prevent the recruitment and…

How many Hospitals can we have instead of a nuclear codpiece?

Thank you Mathew Norman from The Independent for the perfect allegory of this ridiculous expensive and unaffordable, immoral and useless piece of nuclear stupidity. It has nothing to do with defence (it cannot do anything about the UK’s present enemies)…

TEDx, Can we prevent nuclear war?

ICAN, February 1, 2016 Dr Ira Helfand, a co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and member of ICAN’s international steering group, explains the grave threat posed by nuclear weapons in today’s world, and our moral obligation…

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