Deepak Chopra Hosts "The Road to Nuclear Disarmament"
featuring Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan,
Valerie Plame Wilson, Lawrence Bender and
Jonathan Granoff
July 21, 2010
Deepak Chopra hosted "The Road to Global Nuclear Disarmament: The Origin, the Evolution and the Future," a special edition of his weekly SIRIUS XM show on which Queen Noor of Jordan, former CIA Covert Operations Officer Valerie Plame Wilson, Academy Award-winning producer Lawrence Bender and Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, joined him for a personal, in-depth conversation about nuclear proliferation and the importance of nuclear abolition.
Jonathan Granoff at the Tehran International Conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation
April 19, 2010
On Iran's Press-TV, GSI President Jonathan Granoff counters distortions of Obama's nuclear policy, calls on Iran to ratify the CTBT, makes the case for a non-discriminatory, global prohibition on nuclear weapons and more.
Al Jazeera English channel interviews GSI President Jonathan Granoff moments after US President Barack Obama chairs a Summit of Heads of State of the Security Council.
Interview with PNND Co-President Alexa McDonough, MP
June 2, 2008
Senior MP Alexa McDonough, Co-President of the network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, speaks with the CBC's Peter Mansbridge about her decision to make this her last term as a federal politician.
66 years ago nuclear bombs fell on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing untold death and destruction. The anniversary is a powerful reminder to us all of the horrors of nuclear weapons. This short documentary by the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty Organization tells the story of why The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is a key step on the road to a nuclear weapons-free world. It's time for international leaders to listen to the voice of the people and ratify the Treaty without further delay.
The aim of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is to prohibit nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere, always. The Treaty dates back to 1996, but as long as it has not entered into force the threat of nuclear testing remains. The importance of the Treaty and its verification system is a compelling reason for people to raise their voices and be heard around the world.
This short documentary made by the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty organization illustrates the importance of the CTBT and highlights the global verification system that exists today and its robust benefits.
In a special 30-minute CUNY TV Hiroshima Day report by Kevin Sander of War & Peace on the impact of President Obama’s historic call for a world without nuclear weapons, world leaders, UN officials, civil society experts and celebrities meet at the UN to consider the sea-change in global events as, at last, the world moves back from the brink of disaster.
Those appearing: UN Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas, GSI Board Member Christie Brinkley, MPI Chairman Emeritus Douglas Roche, UN disarmament Chief, Sergio Duarte, Michael Cassandra, GSI President Jonathan Granoff, Senior Officer Rhianna Tyson, former Under-Secretary-General Jayantha Dhanapala, former Under-Secretary-General Nobuyasu Abe, LCNP Director John Burroughs, Jacqueline Cabasso, PNND Global Coordinator Alyn Ware, GSI Advisory Board member Mayor Akiba of Hiroshima, the late US Defense Secretary,
Robert McNamarra, the late Sir Joseph Rotblat, and excerpts from President Obama’s Praque speech, and his first joint news conference with President Medvedev of Russia.
Funded by the Greenwich Forum on War and Peace, Ben Millstein explores four questions about our nuclear age: what's the problem with today's system for keeping nukes under control; what are the major nuclear threats today; how does the international community deal with this problem and; what can YOU to do help. To help him answer these questions, Ben turns to experts Joe Cirincione, President of the Ploughshares Fund, Daryl Kimball, Executive Director of the Arms Control Association and Rhianna Tyson, Senior Officer of the Global Security Institute.
Documentary featuring several GSI and MPI experts, including Chairman Douglas Roche, O.C., as well as footage from GSI's 2005 UN event with Ted Sorensen and Robert McNamara
Host Peter Coyote and studio guests discuss the nuclear threat in the post-Cold War age. The Nuclear Lullaby presents information which the US government has not divulged on Nuclear Proliferation, the use of Depleted Uranium, and the storage hazards and “disposal” of nuclear waste.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for "Progress on the Ground"
With introductions by EWI President John Mroz and GSI President Jonathan Granoff, on UN Day, 2011
October 24, 2011
"Pacta Sunt Servanda"
GSI President Jonathan Granoff's remarks on United Nations Day, 2011
October 24, 2011
Jonathan Granoff speaks from the Semipalatinsk test site
October 13, 2011
During the Nuclear Weapons Free World Forum in Kazakhstan, held on the 20th anniversary of the closing of the Semipalatinsk test site of the Soviet Union, GSI President Jonathan Granoff shares his thoughts.
Congressman Ed Markey's presentation to the PNND 2011 Annual Assembly
Congressman Ed Markey delivers a message to the 2011 Annual Assembly of the network of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, of which he is a Co-President. The Assembly was held in Bern, Switzerland, October 15-16, 2011.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference at Quinnipiac University
February 19th, 2010
The International Human Rights Law Society and The Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University presented Building up or Breaking Down: The Direction of Nuclear Non-Proliferation.
MPI Member David Ives chaired the event. GSI President Jonathan Granoff delivered the keynote address.
James Goodby on US-Russian Nuclear Arms Negotiations
BSG Member Ambassador James Goodby, Hoover Institution, Stanford University is a guest lecturer at the "US-Russian START Plus Arms Control Simulation" at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Ambassador Goodby talks about his involvement with various US-Russian nuclear negotiations, including the Start I treaty between 1981 and 1983, and the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program. The class, taught by Dr. William Potter, Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, is a simulation of US-Russian strategic arms reduction talks. Students assume the role of US and Russian arms control officials in charge of negotiating a follow-up accord to the current START Treaty.
As an Evangelical preacher, GSI Board Member Tyler Wigg Stevenson believes that Christians have a particularly important role to play in helping prevent the evil of nuclear weapons from being unleashed onto the world. At the 2009 Q Conference, Stevenson identified "vocabulary" and "possibility" as two vital contributions that Christians can make in the movement to abolish nuclear weapons.
In this excerpt from his keynote presentation at the World Future Society's 2009 conference, bioviolence expert (and BSG Member) Barry Kellman warns about the prospects of turning pathogens into weapons.
Dennis Kucinich's presentation to the PNND Roundtable at the United Nations
On May 8, 2009, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament held a roundtable discussion at the United Nations during the Preparatory Committee meeting of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was unable to attend, but sent this video presentation in his stead. Bill Kidd, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Mayra Gomez, Program Officer of PNND, and Hideo Hiraoka, MP of Japan, also spoke.
Jonathan Granoff. President of Global Security Instititue, opens the press conference for the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit releasing the Charter for a World Without Violence
GSI President Jonathan Granoff with
activist and musician Bono, at the Summit of Nobel Laureates, Paris 2008
GSI President Jonathan Granoff at the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit
December, 2008
A youth group called Weltversammlung der Friedensnobelpreisträger interviewed Jonathan Granoff at the December 2008 Nobel Laureate Summit in Paris. In these four short videos, they discuss:
BSG Chairman Ambassador (Ret.) Thomas Graham, Jr. reminds an audience in commemoration of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan that strengthening the NPT should be of paramount importance if we want to prevent such destruction from occurring again.
PNND Japan Report to the Council Summit in Pugwash, Nova Scotia
July 4, 2008
PNND Council member Tom Kono, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Senior Vice Minister for Justice, offers his report to the PNND Council meeting taking place in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, July 10-13, 2008.
"Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons":
Conference organized by Centre for Strategic and International Studies and the Indian Council of World Affairs
June 9-10, 2008
An international conference was held in New Delhi to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rajiv Gandhi plan to eliminate nuclear weapons. Speakers included:
GSI President Jonathan Granoff and Audrey Kitagawa, former adviser to the UN High Representative for Child Soldiers, hold a dialogue at the World Wisdom Council in Monterrey, Mexico.
In October 2004, Jonathan Granoff gave a speech about the US Constitution and The Earth Charter at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Robert McNamara and Ted Sorensen: Applying Lessons of the 20th Century to the 21st Century
Spring Meeting 2004, American Bar Association Section of International Law & Practice
At the height of the negotiations on the Middle East at the NPT Review Conference, GSI Senior Officer Rhianna Tyson chaired a session organized by Greenpeace Mediterranean, Israel. Speakers included MPI Expert Consultant Dr. Rebecca Johnson, Anne Penketh of BASIC and Sharon Dolev of Greenpeace Israel.
A special panel event at the United Nations, with representatives from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and the Commission on Sustainable Development.
Featuring UN Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Assistant Secretary-General Thomas Stelzer and GSI President Jonathan Granoff.
Parliamentarians join UN Secretary-General
to urge progress at the NPT
May 6, 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's speech at the PNND-IPU event on "Advancing Nuclear Disarmament: The Power of Parliaments," featuring PNND Member Raphael Chegeni (Tanzania), PNND Council Member Edine von Herold (Costa Rica), PNND New Zealand Deputy Chair Nicky Wagner, PNND Global Coordinator Alyn Ware, and IPU Permanent Observer Anda Filip. GSI President Jonathan Granoff served as Respondent to the Secretary-General.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union, one of the few international organizations (INOs) to be granted speaking rights at the 2010 NPT Review Conference, called on the NPT to advance the United Nations Secretary-General’s plan for nuclear disarmament. The IPU presentation was delivered by PNND New Zealand Deputy Chair Nicky Wagner.
Congressional Testimony on Biological Threats: Diplomacy and International Programs
On March 18, 2010, BSG member Barry Kellman testified to the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade. Read the full remarks of his testimony or...
On June 24, BSG Chairman Hon. Thomas Graham Jr. testified at the United States Congressional hearing The July Summit and Beyond: Prospects for US-Russia Nuclear Arms Reductions, which was convened by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also testifying at the hearing was The Hon. Howard L. Berman, The Hon. William J. Perry, and Keith B. Payne, Ph.D.
On May 7, 2009, GSI, in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, hosted a special panel event during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting, featuring UN Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas, High Representative Sergio Duarte, and former Under-Secretaries-General for Disarmament Jayantha Dhanapala and Nobuyasu Abe.
UNTV, the UN's broadcasting network, aired it on television stations around the world.
Christie Brinkley, former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, MPI Chairman Henrik Salander and Hideo Hiraoka, MP, Japan, spoke at a special event during the 2009 NPT Preparatory Committee conference, chaired by GSI Senior Officer Rhianna Tyson.
On March 17, 2009, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Dr. Kevin Cahill, a world reknown physician and humanitarian, received lifetime achievement awards at the Millennium Development Golas (MDGs) Awards Ceremony at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. GSI President Jonathan Granoff co-hosted and was privileged to give a presentation on the MDGs.
GSI presentation on outer space security to the UN General Assembly
GSI Senior Officer Rhianna Tyson delivers the first ever NGO presentation on outer space security to the United Nations General Assembly, First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, October 26, 2007
Christie Brinkley speaks at GSI-PNND event at the United Nations
American cultural icon Christie Brinkley was one of the engaged, informed, and empowered women speaking at a special panel event hosted by GSI and PNND entitled “Amplifying the Moral and Practical Missions of the United Nations: Parliamentarians, diplomats and engaged citizens working to abolish nuclear weapons.”
Joining the American cultural icon on the panel was the Hon. Marian Hobbs, parliamentarian and former Minister for Disarmament of New Zealand, Ms. Cora Weiss, a longtime peace activist and leader for gender equality at the UN, and the Hon. Alexa McDonough, a senior member of the Canadian parliament. Moderated by GSI Senior Officer, Rhianna Tyson, the event brought together women who are working on all levels to prevent conflict involving nuclear weapons.
On TV New Zealand, Alyn Ware explains how President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit this week in Washington is part of a series of initiatives to prevent nuclear proliferation and achieve nuclear disarmament – the most important of which could be the 4-week long Conference of States Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty taking place at the United Nations in May.
BSG Member and Commonwealth Club President Gloria Duffy, a former arms control negotiator, discusses the new NPR and how it acts as a carrot and a stick.
Jonathan Granoff on Associated Press television discussing the security-enhancing cooperation facilitated by the new START treaty and the Nuclear Posture Review.
New START treaty to be signed on April 8 - Presidents
On Russia Today, BSG Director and Chairman Ambassador Robert Grey Jr and Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr discuss the new START agreement and its effect on global non-proliferation efforts.
Alyn Ware Addresses Anti-Nuclear Rally outside Nobel Award Ceremony
PNND Global Coordinator Alyn Ware, 2009 recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, asks a crowd of supporters if the achievement of a world without nuclear weapons is possible. The answer? "Yes, We Can."
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and GSI Advisory Board Member Mikhail Gorbachev, as part of the Geneva Lecture Series from UNITAR, reflect on the new momentum towards nuclear disarmament.
In the lead up to their Model UN Conference, WFUNA asks GSI President Jonathan Granoff and Senior Officer Rhianna Tyson what can lead governments to stay away from, or do away with, nuclear weapons?
Three most important legal instruments of the 20th century
GSI President Jonathan Granoff discusses what he believes are the three most important legan instruments of the 20th century: the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the nuclear Non-Prolieration Treaty
Interview with Amb. Thomas Graham on December 5, 2006
PierreTerre, a compilation of stories of value, wisdom, intelligence and good intent, produced an interview with Bipartisan Security Group Chairman Ambassador (Ret.) Thomas Graham. In this 6 minute interview produced for the Project for Nuclear Awareness, Amb. Graham offers straight talk about what it will actually take to keep the US and the world safe from nuclear and WMD dangers. Amb. Graham describes the value and importance of dialogue and strong negotiations in keeping the world safe.
On December 11, 2002, Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School hosted a
Community Forum: "What's Next in Iraq? Is War Inevitable?"
The panel discussion was moderated by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. Panelists included: Michael Doran, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute; Frank N. von Hippel, Professor of Public and International Affairs; Co-Director, Program on Science and Global Security; Paul R. Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs.
Jonathan Granoff talks about the current state of the world's nuclear arsenals. If the five declared nuclear weapons states cannot stop producing new nuclear weapons, he says, then what hope has the world of stopping nations like North Korea or Iran? Despite the fact that this video was filmed before the 2005 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty review, we believe there is still considerable value to be found in watching it.
Democracy, Disarmament and Public Education:
A conversation with Senator Alan Cranston
In this video, part of the "Conversations with History" series, GSI founder Senator Alan Cranston speaks with Harry Kreisler of the Institute for International Studies.
Rutgers University Law School Honors Alumnus Jonathan Granoff
On June 11, 2009 Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, received the Rutgers University School of Law – Camden Arthur E. Armitage, Sr. Distinguished Alumni Award for significant contributions to the fields of international law, peace, and security.
A short video presentation highlighting Granoff’s work at the United Nations, with the United States Congress, with Nobel Peace Laureates, and with noted figures of the arts and entertainment community preceded remarks by Raymond Solomon, Dean of the Law School.
Senator Abacca Anjain Madisson of Rongelap, Marshall Islands, describes how her country was struck by 67 nuclear weapons during nuclear testing by the US.
GSI Board Member Christie Brinkley Receives Smart Cookie Award for her work with GSI
Christie Brinkley was one of 7 recipients of the 2008 Smart Cookie Award from Cookie Magazine for her outstanding activism in making a safer, saner, nuclear-free world.
Interview with Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C. on October 29, 2005
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation honored Dr. Daniel Ellsberg with its 2005 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award and The Honorable Douglas Roche, O.C. (Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative) with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Following the awards presentation, Helen Thomas conducted a live unscripted interview with both honorees. The Awards were presented during the Foundation’s 22nd annual Evening for Peace gala and ceremony at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California. The theme for the 2005 awards dinner was Taking a Stand for Peace.
GSI organized a press conference at the United Nations featuring former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, as well as representatives of three key countries: Ambassador Elisabet-Borsiin Bonnier of Sweden, Ambassador Paul Meyer of Canada, and Ambassador Friedrich Gröning of Germany, moderated by Mr. Granoff. The press conference garnered extensive press coverage, especially Mr. McNamara's remarks, which were made available for wide distribution.
US Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Goals: Honoring the Balance
Event hosted May 9, 2005 at United Nations with guests Dr. Hans Blix, Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) and Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA)
GSI collaborated with the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, chaired by Dr. Hans Blix, and The Simons Foundation to organize a bipartisan presentation at the NPT Review Conference featuring US Congressmen Ed Markey (D-MA) and Curt Weldon (R-PA). They joined Dr. Hans Blix on a panel moderated by Jonathan Granoff titled "US Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Goals: Honoring the Balance" before an invitation-only audience consisting of 120 select diplomats and experts.
2005 Alan Cranston Peace Award Honoring Ted Turner
On April 20, 2005, President Mikhail Gorbachev gave a keynote address, his first speech at the United Nations since his historic address in December of 1988, and then presented philanthropist and businessman Ted Turner with the Alan Cranston Peace Award on behalf of the Global Security Institute.
Other speakers included the Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell, Dr. Jane Goodall, Mr. Kim Cranston, and Mr. Mark Malloch-Brown, Chef de Cabinet to the UN Secretary General. The public ceremony took place before a standing-room-only audience of more than 1000 people, and was made available for worldwide media distribution by UN TV.
