PM Gordon Brown and President Gorbachev Discuss Wide Range of Issues: Report from GSI President Jonathan Granoff, an IPB Representative to the Nobel Laureate Summit
February 29, 2008

On January 28, 2008, President Mikhail Gorbachev and I were hosted to breakfast and a private meeting with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, at No. 10 Downing Street. The meeting was divided into two distinct parts. The first hour included Tom Fletcher, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs, and myself. The second hour was only President Gorbachev and the Prime Minister.

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Nuclear proponents: "irresponsible in the extreme"
January 24, 2008
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Five retired military leaders who have called for increasing NATO’s willingness to use nuclear weapons are “irresponsible in the extreme,” said Senator Douglas Roche, O.C., Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative, releasing a new MPI Briefing Paper.  Rather than planning to use them, NATO needs to show a “visible intent” to downgrade nuclear weapons.

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Diverse Coalition Launches Campaign to Stop U.S. Nuclear Deal with India
January 16, 2008
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WASHINGTON, DC –The Bipartisan Security Group is one of twenty-three organizations which today launched a coalition to stop the Bush Administration’s proposed nuclear trade agreement with India.  The proposed agreement would exempt that nuclear-armed nation from longstanding U.S. and international restrictions on states that do not meet global standards to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

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International Policies to Reduce Bio Threats
November 11, 2007
For immediate release

Washington, DC- Former chief US weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay, will be part of a lunchtime panel discussion on developing international policies to reduce the threats from biological weapons. The panel will explore the pressing threats from potential use of biological weapons by states and terrorists, as well as from accidental releases. The panel, organized by the Bipartisan Security Group, will examine the various cooperative responses the international community can take to counter these threats.

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Struggle for a nuclear weapon-free world (Pugna por un mundo sin armas nucleares)
Press Release from Universal Cultures Forum, Monterrey, Mexico

Monterrey, Mexico: Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, speaks about the necessity to redfine universal values where armaments are not contemplated. Spanish only.

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Jayantha Dhanapala Appointed President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
For Immediate Release

Bari, Italy, 26 October 2007--At a time of both opportunity and challenge for non-proliferation, the Pugwash Council, meeting in Bari, Italy, has unanimously elected Jayantha Dhanapala of Sri Lanka as the new President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.  Taking office on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Pugwash Conference, Dhanapala is the eleventh person to hold this title.  He follows in the footsteps of such eminent scientists and thinkers as founder Bertrand Russell, and former presidents Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, M.S. Swaminathan, and Sir Joseph Rotblat. 

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Indonesia Lauds MPI's Article VI Forum for Identifying Key Priority Areas
Octoer 17, 2007

In his statement to the General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, Indonesian Ambassador H.E. Mr. Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat voiced his country's staunch support for the priority areas identified by the Middle Powers Initiative through the Article VI Forum (A6F).

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Christie Brinkley Joins Senior Parliamentarians and Civil Society Experts at UN Forum
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New York- On October 11th, 2007, Christie Brinkley will join two senior women parliamentarians and a leading civil society expert in a special GSI-PNND panel event at the United Nations entitled “Amplifying the Moral and Practical Missions of the United Nations: Parliamentarians, Diplomats and Engaged Citizens Working to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.”

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US/Iran Confrontation: Intensified Diplomacy and Adherence to International Law
For Immediate Release

New York - The Middle Powers Initiative today issued an appeal for a diplomatic and peaceful resolution of the Iran crisis.  In a statement widely released to governments around the world, MPI appealed for their help in influencing the United States not to launch a military attack on Iran. 

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Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs to Host Conference on Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming
September 18, 2007
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PITTSBURGH-The University of Pittsburgh's Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies will host a conference titled “Securing Our Survival-Meeting the Threats of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming,” at 9 a.m. Oct. 12 and 13, in the Teplitz Moot Courtroom, Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. The event will bring together internationally prominent scholars and policy analysts and community members to discuss threats that challenge the security of the world. The conference is being organized by the Ridgway Center, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Stanley Foundation.

The conference will feature several internationally known speakers, including, Thomas Graham, former special representative of the President of the United States for Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament; Joseph Cirincione, senior fellow and director for Nuclear Policy at the Center for American Progress, William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation; and Lisa Schirch, professor of peace building at Eastern Mennonite University and program director of the 3D Security Initiative.

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MPI Chairman to Receive Christian Leadership Award
Edmonton, Canada

Douglas Roche, O.C., is the 2007 recipient of the Kevin Carr Christian Leadership Award.

Named to commemorate Newman Theological College's seventh president, the award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the Christian community and beyond.

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Pugwash 50th Anniversary Media Coverage
Pugwash, Nova Scotia, July 7-9 2007

Major media covered the historic conference in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, interviewing several prominent leaders within the MPI network, including Chairman Douglas Roche, O.C., Advisor Jayantha Dhanapala, GSI Advisor Mikhail Gorbachev and more.

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Revitalizing Nuclear Disarmament: Policy Recommendations of the Pugwash 50th Anniversary Workshop
Press Release
For Immediate Release
Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 8 July 2007

As long as nuclear weapons exist, they will one day be used.

This sober, inescapable truth continues to haunt the international community. Every minute of every day, more than 26,000 nuclear weapons - many thousands of them on hair-trigger alert - are poised to bring monumental destruction if they are ever used. Nuclear weapons have spread to more countries, and the international non-proliferation regime is perilously close to collapse. Poorly guarded stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium around the world could fall into the hands of terrorists who would think nothing of exploding a nuclear device in a major city.

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Dhanapala, Johnson Named MPI Expert Consultants
Press Release
For Immediate Release
June 29, 2007

The Middle Powers Initiative, an NGO dedicated to the worldwide reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons, is pleased and honored to announce the appointment of two of the most distinguished figures in international arms control issues as Expert Consultants to MPI.

Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala, the former UN Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Affair and commissioner on the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, and Dr. Rebecca Johnson, the Executive Director of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy and Editor of the Institute’s journal Disarmament Diplomacy, will lend their expertise to MPI as it enters a new phase in its work to help revitalize the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation agenda as embodied in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

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Saving Our Nuclear Allies Despite Themselves
Embassy editorial
June 6, 2007

Senator Roméo Dallaire wants to remove Canada from NATO until it drops its dangerous nuclear weapons first-strike strategy. Former senator Doug Roche, who is the chair of the Middle Powers Initiative, remains one of Canada's most tireless advocates for nuclear disarmament. If anyone believes they are voices of the past when they speak out against nuclear weapons, they better think again.

Click here for a PDF version of the article

Click here to read the statement by Senator Dallaire in the Canadian Parliament

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A GENERAL CONCERN, A BURNING QUESTION: THE WEAPONIZATION OF OUTER SPACE

Dr. Hans Blix (WMD Commission, Stockholm) - Ambassador Robert Grey (BSG, Washington) – Dr. Patricia Lewis (UNIDIR, Geneva)

WEDNESDAY 9 MAY – Plenary Room A – ACV- The Global Security Institute, co-sponsored by the Government of Sweden and the Secure World Foundation, will host a lunchtime panel, entitled “Weapons in Space and the Disarmament/Nonproliferation Regime.” With increasing sophistication of dual-use technologies and plans on the part of the US Pentagon and other countries to weaponize space, the need for a multilateral regime governing peaceful uses of outer space is of unprecedented urgency. GSI, in its ongoing efforts to promote cooperative security in space, is holding this meeting to relay the importance of outer space security and its relevance to the legal regime of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Get rid of nukes, diplomat advises
by Roger Snodgrass, Los Alamos Monitor
July 9, 2006

A senior American diplomat with decades of international disarmament experience called on the United States to lead the world toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Speaking to a Los Alamos arms control committee this week, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. warned the group that his views have evolved from those he may have had as a former Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament.

"The more we build these weapons to keep us safe, the less safe we become."

These words came from Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute, an agency committed to the elimination of nuclear weapons, to students and community members on Oct. 29 in Alumni Hall.

“The United States could not preach temperance from a barstool”, United States Congressman Ed Markey said yesterday at a Headquarters press conference, referring to the United States’ interest in developing a nuclear “bunker-buster” weapon while seeking to suppress the nuclear threat elsewhere in Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

At a late-day press conference in the midst of the month-long Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), ongoing in New York through 27 May, Mr. Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts first elected to Congress in 1976, said that the major energy bill that recently passed the House of Representatives lifted a 30-year ban on reprocessing of nuclear materials. “This is not the time for the United States to be sending a signal that we’re getting back into the business of nuclear reprocessing as we’re trying to convince other countries in the world, again, to disavow interest.”

NEW YORK, March 28 2005—Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will present businessman and philanthropist Ted Turner with the 2005 Alan Cranston Peace Award on behalf of the Global Security Institute, April 20th at the United Nations in New York City.

Eric Ersequn is spending this weekend resolving a hostage crisis in the Ivory Coast.

The Hastings High School senior and other student delegates were given an hour yesterday to peacefully resolve the conflict as part of their participation in a model U.N. committee.

The 29th annual Westchester Model United Nations Conference began Friday and ends today at Hastings High School.

Students from nine area schools formed 12 model U.N. committees to debate and resolve global issues.

The student-run event gave teenagers a chance to discuss international law and learn how the U.N. operates.

"This is our time to watch TV and chill, but we're here at school. The conference makes it all worth it because we're learning in a fun environment," Ersequn said.

In addition to the delegates, more than 100 students participated in the conference as security guards, kitchen staff and office workers.

Younger students assisted the committees and researched topics such as India's independence from Great Britain.

Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute, was the keynote speaker. He has been involved in a movement to ban nuclear weapons for the past 20 years.

SAN FRANCISCO—Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter recently hosted a consultation of diplomats and government officials at The Carter Center. The Consultation sought to preserve and strengthen the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) which President Carter said "was deeply wounded and whose very life is threatened." He called the policy of the nuclear weapons states "irrational" and gave eight "corrective actions" to save it.

Entitled "Atlanta Consultation II: On the Future of the NPT," the consultation was organized by the Middle Powers Initiative, a program of the Global Security Institute, in cooperation with The Carter Center, January 26-28, 2005.

"Senator Alan Cranston was a passionate public servant, a true citizen of the world and an inspirational force for peace. The Sovereignty Revolution, finished shortly before his death, gives voice to his visionary understanding of how to create a world with more friends and fewer terrorists. The Senator argues that we must revise our notions of sovereignty if we are to meet the global challenges of the 21st century. While we mourn his loss, how fortunate we are to have this book—a gift of his wisdom reflecting the lessons of a lifetime."
—President Bill Clinton

Dear Friends:

I am not an expert on nuclear weapons or global politics, but I do have enough common sense to know two things:

First, nuclear weapons threaten the lives of billions of people. And second, my country will be unable to persuade others not to acquire nuclear weapons while insisting on our right to plan and build new ones.

As a mother it is very clear that one can never change behavior with a “do as I say, not as I do” attitude.

Children see through this and surely nations see through the illogic of my country telling others not to develop weapons of mass destruction while we rely so heavily on them. It is not logical, nor moral.

Universal disarmament is the only sensible course.

Dear Friends:

When I look into the eyes of my children, I remember why I am committed to working for a safer world, a world without nuclear weapons.

Imagine a world without organizations like the Global Security Institute. Could we survive if the voices of conscience, reason, law, security, and morality, advocating the elimination of nuclear weapons were silenced? Such silence in the face of present dangers is unacceptable.

When our leaders are pressing for preemptive military use of nuclear weapons, resumption of nuclear testing, and the creation of new more “usable” nuclear weapons, clear, competent, morally coherent voices must be heard at the highest levels of power and politics.

I know personally that the Global Security Institute has the expertise, experience, and the political access to move policy and decision makers in the right direction. Please join me in supporting their work with as much generosity as you can afford.

In Peace,

Pierce Brosnan

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Vancouver…Ambassador Nobuyasu Abe, the recently appointed United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament, will join Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons and the Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, Co-Directors of the Simons Centre for Peace and Disarmament Studies at a conference at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, November 7-9, 2003 in Vancouver, British Columbia. International experts in nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and parliamentarians from around the world will gather to address and reverse the growing dangers from nuclear proliferation and new nuclear war-fighting doctrines.

On Friday, November 7, 2003, Parliamentarians from around the world will gather in Vancouver for the inaugural conference of the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND).

For Immediate Release

Contact:
Kath Delaney, 415-383-7922 or 415-531-1642
Nadine Kjellberg, 610-668-5480 or 610-585-0844

What:
The House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation, in cooperation with the Bipartisan Security Group, will host a discussion on the limits of unilateralism at the U.S. Congress. In separate keynotes, Ambassador Thomas Graham,
Dr. Jane Goodall and Michael Douglas will urge U.S. policy makers to pursue greater cooperation -- both at home and abroad -- when addressing global security threats. Comments by Congressmen Ed Markey (D-MA), Christopher Shays (R-CT) and GSI President Jonathan Granoff as well as a dialogue with the audience will follow.

DUE TO HURRICANE ISABEL, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM SEPTEMBER 18 TO OCTOBER 2. PLEASE WATCH FOR UPDATES.

On Thursday, October 2, actor, producer, and director Michael Douglas and noted primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall will speak on Capitol Hill. In separate keynotes, they will urge U.S. policy makers to pursue greater cooperation -- both at home and abroad -- when addressing global security threats. A panel discussion, featuring Congressmen Ed Markey (D-MA) and Christopher Shays (R-CT), as well as Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. (Ret.) will follow.

The non-partisan event is sponsored by the House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation. The Bipartisan Security Group is pleased to cooperate in the planning of this event.

The world has lost one its brightest lights. Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh passed away from multiple stab wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant yesterday.

She was a tireless advocate for nuclear disarmament and human rights and considered a likely candidate for Prime Minister. She was appropriately immensely popular in Sweden.

At the 2001 Conference of the States Parties to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, where Secretary General Kofi Annan emphasized that moving toward the elimination of nuclear weapons should be accelerated in the shadow of 9/11, her character and courage shined.

Two great men, Sergio Vieira de Mello and Arthur Helton, were among the 20 people who died in the explosion at the United Nations in Iraq this week.

Sergio Vieira de Mello, United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights and leader of the UN efforts in Iraq, had helped bring stability and self governance to Kosovo and East Timor and was beginning his work to accomplish the same end in Iraq. Mr. de Mello accomplished much with limited resources by inspiring exceptional commitments and cooperation. His leadership style demonstrated generosity and confidence.

Photo: Grey, Graham, Granoff, Markey, Gottemoeller, Holum

WASHINGTON, DC--On June 18, the Bipartisan Security Group (BSG) held a Capitol Hill briefing on the central role of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and obtaining their ultimate elimination. Stressing the Treaty's successful track record over the past 30 years, the panel offered recommendations on how to pursue multilateral security post the Iraqi war.

WASHINGTON, DC--On Wednesday, June 18, the House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation will host a Bipartisan Security Group panel for Members of Congress and their staff on the future of arms control treaties.

Panelists will include:
Rose Gottemoeller, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former Deputy Undersecretary for Defense and Nuclear Proliferation, DOE;
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. (ret.), who was involved in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement of the past 30 years; and
John Holum, former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
Moderator: Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr., former U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

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CONTACT: Kim Spencer (415) 457-5222 or Jennifer Spoerri (510) 757-3321

(San Francisco, June 16, 2003) Who is the greatest nuclear threat in the world? Is it North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Israel or perhaps the United States itself? After decades of cold war, superpower parity and carefully constructed nuclear arms agreements, the Bush Administration has now again begun thinking the unthinkable: the development and use of nuclear weapons as a viable means of warfare and counter-terrorism assaults. Meanwhile, critics at home and around the world fear this may increase the possibility of nuclear war by sending a green-light signal to other countries with nuclear capability that the use of "tactical" nuclear weapons is acceptable.

SAN FRANCISCO—“Vision and Voice,” a new GSI short film, celebrated its debut at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel during the April 12th Alan Cranston Peace Award Ceremony, which honored Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.

The 400 guests at the gala, including actors Pierce Brosnan and Peter Coyote, praised the video as one of the highlights of the evening. The fast paced and informative six minute film is now available to download and share from the Global Security Institute website (http://www.gsinstitute.org/gsi/about.html).

Photo: Amb. James Leonard, Suzanne Spaulding, Prof. Barry Kellman, Hon. Ed Markey, Jonathan Granoff. Photo by N. Kjellberg.

WASHINGTON, DC—The Bipartisan Security Group organized a Capitol Hill panel discussion on biological weapons dangers. It was hosted by the Congressional Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation on March 25. Congressmen Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chris Shays (R-CT) later sent letters to Administration officials including John Ashcroft, Condoleeza Rice, Tom Ridge and Tommy Thompson, calling for specific policies to strengthen the legal prohibitions related to biological weapons.

WHEREAS, Senator Alan Cranston (1914-2000) dedicated his life and work to peace, justice, environmental sustainability, human rights, the rights of veterans, the rule of law and cooperation amongst peoples, and above all, the elimination of nuclear weapons; and

WHEREAS, Senator Cranston founded the Global Security Institute in the city of San Francisco in 1999, concerned deeply that it is unworthy of civilization to base security on terror, on the threat to annihilate millions of innocent civilians, and to carry on a mission and a vision to create a world free from the perilous dangers posed by nuclear weapons; and

WHEREAS, the Global Security Institute created the Alan Cranston Peace Award to honor leaders who share Senator Cranston's vision; and

WHEREAS, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi has publicly urged the President to initiate multilateral negotiations leading to the early conclusion of a nuclear weapons convention; and

On March 25, the Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation of the US Congress will host a panel on The Biological Weapons Convention: Relevance for International and National Security.

The Bipartisan Security Group (a program of the Global Security Institute) has organized this panel, which includes:

Photo: Amb. W. vanden Heuvel (U.S. ret.), J. Leonard (U.S. ret.), R. Grey (US ret.); J. Granoff (GSI)

United Nations -- Former senior U.S. diplomats discussed the Iraq crisis and U.S. policy yesterday at UN headquarters here in New York at a press conference organized by the Global Security Institute (GSI) and the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA). More than 40 reporters from the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters and other domestic and international media outlets attended.

Photo: Amb. M. Duclos (France), J. Granoff (GSI), Amb. H. H. Schumacher (Germany)

Reporters from more than 40 international media outlets attended a United Nations press briefing today organized by the Global Security Institute (GSI) and the United Nations Correspondence Association (UNCA). Entitled "Is War Really the Only Option?", reporters from CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters and 40 other domestic and international newsrooms joined in a frank, off-the-record dialogue with diplomats from France and Germany and leading U.S. policy experts.

Yesterday and today, National Public Radio stations across the nation broadcast a Public Radio International profile of GSI President Jonathan Granoff. Click on the following link to listen to the half-hour program:

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FINAL STATEMENT

The 3rd World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates was held from October 18th to 20th, 2002. It was organized by Mikhail Gorbachev and Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome.

The participants included: Mikhail Gorbachev, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Joseph Rotblat, Lech Walesa, Betty Williams, Institut de Droit International, International Peace Bureau, American Friends Service Committee, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, International Labour Organization, Amnesty International, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, United Nations Peace-keeping Forces, Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the United Nations.

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CONTACT: Ambassador Robert T. Grey Jr., 202-797-5280; Zack Allen, 415-775-6760

WASHINGTON, DC: The Global Security Institute (GSI) announced today that it has launched a new program to provide Members of Congress with expert analysis and opinion on security-related issues. Composed of the leading architects of the international security regime, the Bipartisan Security Group (BSG) seeks to serve as an objective, reliable resource for policy makers who support the American tradition of securing security through international cooperation and the rule of law.

Press Conference
Thursday, October 10, 2002
12:00 P.M. (Noon)

The National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW
First Amendment Room

Contact Page Crosland at (202) 822-5200 x272 to RSVP or for more information

In January 2002, the GSI Board of Directors and the MPI International Steering Committee unanimously endorsed a resolution accepting "the Middle Powers Initiative [www.middlepowers.org]as a program of the Global Security Institute." GSI will now take responsibility for the administration and finances of MPI. The leadership of GSI and MPI are confident that the new alliance will play a dynamic and pivotal role in the international movement to eliminate nuclear weapons.

WHO
Honoree: Jayantha DHANAPALA, UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs

Featured Speakers:
Jane GOODALL, Ph.D., OCE, Primatologist; Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute
Gillian SORENSEN, UN Assistant Secretary-General
Ambassador Henrik SALANDER (Sweden); Chairman, NPT Prep Comm
Kim CRANSTON, Chair, Global Security Institute
Jonathan GRANOFF, Esq., President of the Global Security Institute

Musical presentation: Peace Is Possible Chorus, Students from Conerly Road School of New Jersey and Colchester Intermediate School of Connecticut

Sponsored by the Middle Powers Initiative
a program of the Global Security Institute

Monday • 8 April 2002 • 1:15-2:45 pm
Conference Room 4 • United Nations • Public Welcome

SAN FRANCISCO: Tuesday morning’s attacks on the people of New York and Washington, DC are a stunning demonstration of humanity’s capability to reduce the best of what we are to rubble, smoke, and death.

In the aftermath of such horror, it is natural for Americans to want to retreat from the rest of the world. It is normal and right to draw close to loved ones and to stay at home, denying entry to the strange, the dangerous, the frightening. Our anger will be profound.

DETROIT: As President Bush addressed the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Detroit today, a statement from mayors of major cities in the U. S. and abroad was released, calling on him to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons "with all deliberate speed," and "to declare your firm commitment to the task of eliminating nuclear weapons from the face of the earth."

In addition, minutes before the President's arrival to address them today, the plenary meeting of the U. S. Mayor's Conference reaffirmed from the floor its policy in favor of eliminating nuclear weapons.

Senator Alan Cranston died standing up.

While preparing to start a new day, the 86 year old father, grandfather, friend, and leader passed away standing at his kitchen sink on the morning of New Year’s Eve, gracefully exiting at the dawn of the new millennium.

The staff, board, and friends of the Global Security Institute, which he founded to further the cause of the total elimination of nuclear weapons, will deeply miss his wit, vision, strength and unwavering determination.

Over three dozen high-ranking, retired military professionals and Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders will issue a joint call to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Declaring such arms "as constituting a threat to the security of our nation, a peril to world peace, and a danger to the whole human family," the group will launch the Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative to generate public action against nuclear arms. The leaders will explain the initiative at a joint news conference before participating in an interfaith prayer service at Washington National Cathedral. The military leaders will join clergy in the service.

SAN FRANCISCO: On Thursday May 18th, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament from 1994-1997 and the President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) will be at the World Affairs Council at 11:00 am to discuss the ongoing debate on U.S. deployment of a national missile defense system. The briefing is part of a bi-coastal U.S. release of a White Paper on National Missile Defense published by Lawyers Alliance for World Security.

WASHINGTON, DC: Nuclear disarmament advocates plan to capitalize on heightened public awareness of the danger posed by nuclear weapons thanks, in part, to CBS’s remake of the 1964 nuclear weapons thriller, "Fail Safe." Groups such as Project Abolition, Disarmament Clearinghouse, Global Security Institute and Peace Action are organizing hundreds of watch parties for concerned citizens nationwide to view "Fail Safe" on April 9, 2000. For information about watch parties in your area, please call 1-800-997-2224.

SAN FRANCISCO: On Tuesday, March 14, 2000, UN Ambassador for Peace and Actor, Michael Douglas, will present Senator Alan Cranston with the W. Averell Harriman Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Cause of Peace and World Security on behalf of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) at a special gala dinner at the Westin St. Francis beginning at 6:30 pm. Distinguished guests include Senator Barbara Boxer, Ambassador Thomas Graham, and Ambassador Richard Butler. Special guest appearance by Actor Robin Williams.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Alan Cranston, Dr. Jane Goodall, and 120 youth leaders representing more than 50 countries will gather on the steps of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral at Noon today, October 6, 1999, to call for the US ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).