Leaders from more than 50 countries including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Washington on Thursday and Friday at a Nuclear Security Summit dedicated to keeping nuclear bomb making materials out of the hands of terrorists. [read more]
Peggy Mason | April 1, 2016
Peggy Mason, Rideau Institute President and a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament
Traffic will be diverted in Washington Friday to speed the movements of more than 50 world leaders gathered for President Barack Obama’s fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit. [read more]
John Polanyi | April 1, 2016
John Polanyi is a Nobel laureate at the University of Toronto who has written widely on the need for arms control.
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For Immediate Release: January 6, 2016
(Washington, D.C.)—Setsuko Thurlow and the Hibakusha of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received the highest number of votes in an online poll to determine the 2015 Arms Control Person of the Year.
An op-ed by ISYP members Poul-Erik Christiansen, Emma Hansen, and Cameron Harrington, following their attendance at the 61st Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Nagasaki, November 2015
Keynote speech by Tariq Rauf, Ottawa, CNANW Seminar, Nov 30, 2015.
Tariq Rauf is Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme at SIPRI, formerly Alternate Head of the IAEA Delegation to NPT Conferences from 2002-2010. Download the full text of his speech here.
Keynote speech by Tariq Rauf, Ottawa, CNANW Seminar, Nov 30, 2015. Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme at SIPRI, formerly Alternate Head of the IAEA Delegation to NPT Conferences from 2002-2010.
Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: A New Beginning for Canada (pdf)
The contradiction between the security interests of the vast majority of states and those of the nuclear-armed states will only continue to build.
Running interference for our nuclear allies (pdf)
Paul Meyer | November 26, 2015
Peter Jones | October 2015
Track Two Diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the official process of diplomacy.
Sadly, those involved in official diplomacy often have little understanding of and appreciation for the complex and nuanced role that Track Two can play, or for its limitations. And many Track Two practitioners are often unaware of the realities and pressures of the policy and diplomatic worlds, and not particularly adept at framing their efforts to make them accessible to hard-pressed officials. At the same time, those interested in the academic study of Track Two sometimes fail to understand the realities faced by either set of practitioners.
A need therefore exists for a work to bridge the divides between these constituencies and between the different types of Track Two practice—and this book crosses disciplines and traditions in order to do just that. It explores the various dimensions and guises of Track Two, the theory and practice of how they work, and how both practitioners and academics could more profitably assess Track Two. Overall, it provides a comprehensive picture of the range of activities pursued under this title, to provoke new thinking about how these activities relate to each other, to official diplomacy, and to academe.
_Peter Jones is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, and an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution._
